Digital Light & Color

As much as I would enjoy a face-to-face PWP tutorial session, our numbers are so few and we're so geographically dispersed that it seems like it would be very difficult to pull off. But the idea of a web-based seminar sounds very interesting and practical to me. I'm wondering if any other photo soft...

Approaching my 69th birthday, I am certainly familiar with the buttons on old radios. I just never thought much about the characteristic of not being able to push two of them simultaneously as representing a standardized reference to a similar result in the electronic world. But that terminology sta...

Thanks, Den, for the offer to post a "translation" between the use of the Color Balance transform in version 5.0 versus earlier versions. I don't think I need that so long as my understanding as described below is correct. If it isn't spot on or there are other nuances, perhaps a "tra...

Thank you, Jonathan, for the prompt reply -- and for moving my question to its own separate thread. I guess I correctly interpreted most of the items I had questions about. But it is comforting to know for sure what is going on rather than assuming one thing and having it be another without realizin...

I am pleased that someone started a thread that includes references to the Color Balance transformation. I've had some questions about how that transformation is configured in version 5.0 and was reluctant to start a thread because I feel like a real dummy. I've used PWP Pro since version 3.5 and al...

I just love the LL forum response, "JPEG is a finished output format, never intended for post processing." What a dramatic contrast to Jonathan's use of a "Bird" JPEG in the tutorial that showcases his post processing software. LOL Anyway, Marv. Thanks for going to the trouble to...

Thanks for weighing in, Den. I interpret your comment as saying that the benefit of ETTR with a JPEG capture may not be as much as with Raw, but there may be a small benefit as indicated in the comment: "it will potentially shift the scene's whitest spot closer to the 255 tone without clipping ...

First ... Thanks, Marv, for taking my earlier post as intended. I stumbled upon the Luminous Landscape article about ETTR two or three years ago and found it to be the first thing about shooting digital (other than sharpening) that was totally at odds with the principles that I learned about shootin...

In his posting, Marv (Marpel) did not merely say that combining ETTR with Raw capture was the BEST way to shoot. He said (and I quote) "ETTR, as discussed by others, is really ONLY applicable to Raw." (my bold-face emphasis). The idea expressed here (and very frequently by many in the DPRe...

Thanks for the suggestion Dieter. Another Forum member sent me the same hint via e-mail. I didn't think about that option due to having intermittent success with Task Manager on my old Windows XP operating system [just moved to new computer and Windows 7 since Christmas]. Often with the old system I...