Digital Light & Color

This photo leading off today's The Online Photographer essay, "Random Excellence: Joseph O. Holmes," has charm: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/01/random-excellence-joseph-o-holmes.html FastStone auto-adjust pops it but loses much of the charm. Compari...

Yes, Den, FastStone can open a 48-bit TIF file ("16 bit" per channel) but saves a 24-bit file. I suppose that if you get near the end of PWP processing on an image, then look at FSAA on it, the only things you might want to do after accepting the FSAA transform would be things like counter...

The new version 4.3 of FastStone, a free image viewer and basic editor, has an auto-adjust menu option. It often pops an image. Sometimes FSAA (my acronym for Fast Stone auto-adjust) is similar to PWP Special Effects | Equalize at some amount, but often it is different. FSAA is frequently too bright...

Thank you, I changed PWP's File | Color Management | monitor profile back to None. That helped. I'd set PWP to use a monitor profile bearing the name of the monitor. I guess that consists of the settings I'd chosen in HP Display Assistant, so they were applied by PWP then again in the monitor or its...

Do you have a calibrated/profiled screen?
Only by eye, using HP Display Assistant adjustments
Is CM switched on in Faststone (by default it is off)?
Yes, color management is on
Are both programs using the same monitor profile?
PWP is set to use the HP monitor profile

There is a noticeable difference between the colors that PWP displays and the colors of the same image file when displayed in FastStone, a free image viewer of good quality (better than Irfanview, for example). FastStone shows more red. This happens with TIF and JPG files. The family views finished ...

Jonathan Sachs wrote: Dynamic range is not a precisely defined term for digital images - for example, if there is a single white pixel and a single black pixel somewhere in the image, then the dynamic range could be considered to cover 0 .. 100%. Driving home this point, in the program Raw Therapee,...

The Raw dialog, Color tab, displays the R, G, and B histograms overlaid, something common to many raw processors.

Is this histogram overlay available in PWP proper? It would be nice to have it in the drop-down menu of the Histogram tool.

Ctein's recipe is: "Start with the JPEG as the base layer, convert the RAW to a grayscale image ..., paste it in as a second layer over the JPEG, and set the blend mode to Luminosity." Roughly, wouldn't the PWP procedure be: Open raw file and go through the Raw dialog Convert result to gra...

It reads: A very simple technique involves just two Hue and Saturation (H/S) adjustment layers. * Create a H/S Adjustment layer with no adjustment. Change the layer blend mode to Color * Create another H/S Adjustment layer with Saturation at minus 100. * Return to first H/S layer and tune the black ...