Good point, Rob. You can effect something similar to anchoring part of
the curve by combining brightness and contrast adjustments but that's
really a workaround. It would be nice to have a curve with anchor
points in the converter. Do you know if this has been addressed in CS2?
On May 21, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 21 May 2005 at 9:31, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Once you've become accustomed to the RAW converter, you usually won't
have to use curves after conversion. The only tool I use with any
frequency after conversion is shadow/highlight. That seems to be able
to accomplish some control that can't be achieved in conversion. But
anything you can do in curves, you can do in the converter. There are
times when I wish I had given a shot a bit more contrast before
conversion. I'll then use curves after conversion and tweak the RGB
curve. But those situations are rare.
The contrast/brightness tools are controls for a curves tool however
they only
effectively provide a single control point along the curve. They are
generally
adequate but are ineffective if you need to anchor one section of the
image
(for instance shadows to mid-times) and adjust the gamma of another
section (ie
the highlights). For some of the copy work I do this would be great as
any
curves are best applied before the selected color-space gamma curve is
imposed
on the composite RGB file.
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
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