On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/26/2012 2:36 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> 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... > > > It seems that there are two different UI philosophies. One, which I could > call the geek, or the Linux, philosophy lets you go in and directly adjust > the base values: > blacks would be the zero point of the conversion line > exposure would be the slope of the line > brightness would be the gamma > > For me, in a perfect world, I'd be able to apply each of those to each > channel of the raw data for when I'm photographing in wonky light. > > The other philosophy I could call the "don't bother me with details" or the > Mac philosophy, is for the people that don't want to worry about what is > going on under the hood, but want the computer to do all that difficult > thinking for them, and just give them what the computer thinks is a perfect > image. > > It sounds like LR 4 is heading more towards the second philosophy. It's > frustrating because supplying the controls on the basic values would be > trivial. I may be forced to actually learn image manipulation programming > so that I can do those things before feeding my images to LR.
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