On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > David Parsons wrote: > > >On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mark Roberts > ><[email protected]> wrote: > >> David Parsons wrote: > >> > >>>If you are familiar with PS, Exposure sets your White Point, > >>>Brightness sets your gamma/midpoint, and Blacks sets your Black point. > >>> They correspond to the three controls in the Levels tool. > >> > >> As far as I can tell, this isn't true any more (I'm using Lightroom > >> 3.4) - the Brightness tool does not work like the gamma slider in the > >> Levels tool: The Levels gamma slider will not drive bright pixels into > >> 255-255-255 clipping nor shadow areas to 0-0-0 but the Brightness > >> control in Lightroom will do so. > >> > >I haven't used PS since CS3, so you are probably right. > > With CS4 (or maybe CS5) they changed the generic "Brightness and > Contrast" tool in Photoshop, making it more sophisticated in how it > altered, well, brightness and contrast. I suspect the same kind of > change was made in Lightroom. It pisses me off, actually, because I'd > quite like to have a real gamma slider in Lightroom...
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