Bruce Walker wrote: >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... > >You have a full Curves UI available. Or has it gone away in Lr 4?
I have the curves control that's available in Lightroom 3, but again it's a rather neutered version of the curves control in Photoshop. Another sore point... -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
