on 2012-01-06 19:04 Paul Stenquist wrote
On Jan 6, 2012, at 8:41 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Matthew Hunt<[email protected]> wrote:
It's not quite what you're after, but you know that you can
interactively drag the picture to interactively brighten or darken
that color? (Using the "Targeted Adjustment Tool")
That was my thought too.
I'd rather use my eyes ... they're my tools. It's really not all that
difficult a problem to see what adjustments are pleasing or useful by
tweaking things yourself. I don't need a specialized tool to do it.
I agree. The sliders in the Adobe Raw Converter work quite well in that one can
adjust the gray level of the different colors individually. When you get two
colors next to each other that might yield the same shade of gray, it's easy to
add some separation. Skin tones are infinitely adjustable. Shadows and
highlights, easily controlled. It's more than adequate. Too much automation is
too much automation.
Paul
i don't know the "targeted adjustment tool" (i use Aperture, for one thing),
but it sounds like whomever designed it had a notion for what i'm thinking; i'm
not looking for an automation tool (nor a chart of suggested color mappings); i
want a manual tool that is more a more expressive way of "using my eyes"
in reality instead of sliders one should really use a curve to map each
channel; but using curves as one now uses the sliders would lead to even more
"fiddle around until it looks sorta good and leave it at that", while the tool
i envision would let me more directly express my intent, and derive the curves
from the example adjustments i make
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