Digital Light & Color

In interpreting the suggested PS workflow, I assumed changes performed in the RGB color space and that the two "Invert's" were unnessary as suggested by the followup posting by RHarris if one changes the filter mode... ...and further that: (1) "Filter>other>maximum" is PWP's Filt...

This effect tends to increase detail by forcing edge darkening at sharpen edges and/or tends to provide a darkened halo ambience with no sharpening.... and was suggested by Dave Jaseck on the DPR Retouching forum: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1006&message=34747488 . ...This i...

eh! eh! eh!... sometimes the doing is easier than the telling... One possible approach... (1) Make a copy of the original image and make subsequent changes to the 'copy image'... preserving the original image for 'reverts' and/or 'one to one' cloning corrections if needed. (2) Click on the 'copy ima...

I have Vista Home Premium and IE8 and the download completes/installs properly... Some additional things to check or additional information that might help: (1) What OS do you have? (2) Is this an update [if so record your serial number from the exiting PWP5 Help/About dialog just in case] or a 1st ...

TonyG... Others... Also on the DP Retouching forum was a HDR challenge thread where the OP supplied three image versions. I took them and in PWP5: image blended with StackImages, 3Tone Range tone mapped, converted to BW, more tone mapping, and then... added simulated grain [noise] per recent posting...

Should add this comment to the above... ...Using a grain image as the Input image to Composite-HardLight with the main BW image as of the Overlay will only work if the grain image has a bell shaped historgram distribution whose peak is at the 50% tone as is the case with the "t400small.jpg"...

MaciejT... TonyG... ...I was able to essentially duplicate the article's "grain.jpg" with no mask by: (1) downloading the "nograin.jpg" and "t400small.jpg" from the article's web page and opening them in PWP; (2) clicking on "t400small.jpg" and opening the Com...

MaciejT... ...The 'resize workflow' has two Bilateral Sharpen widgits... one for Local Contrast Enhance [LCE] with settings: Amount=65; Blur Radius=20; Blur Threshold=100; Sharpen Factor = 1.20; and Sharpen Threshold=0 and another for EdgeSharpening [no mask] with settings: Amount=38; Blur Radius=2;...

MaciejT... ...that is a great explanation. Often times I do things to get the results I want without fully understanding why... just accepting the settings/adjustments needed to get where I want to go. Thank you for the very considered response to DieterM's question. DieterM... ...As I routinely dow...

From the linked reference: Assume a gamma of 2.2 The idea is simple: impose a gamma of 0.454545, work on the image, then impose back a gamma of 2.2 . But: This is an approximation. Imposing a gamma of 0.454545 is quite close to making an sRGB-encoded image linear. This will do in most cases... It sh...