Digital Light & Color

While exploring the internet for suggestions/ideas to create virtual exposure images for use in SNS-HDR Lite 's [now v1.3.10] blending/tone-mapping, I came across '_GUI_'s (Guillermo Luijk) Feb 2010 posting here: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/forums/thread3674.htm and thought of " cliff &quo...

Mike G.... thanks for the obersvation/comments I think for my next life, I would like to be a CGI [computer generated image] artist. The less obvious aspects of an image's data file intriques me... and the possibilities of accessing/manipulating that data with PWP's transforms/tools even more so... ...

If there is interest, you are invited to view an after/before comparison of "A waxing Extreme Supermoon" at: http://www.ncplus.net/~birchbay/11/IMAGEsbyDEN_11_97.htm The base image is a Canon 350D CR2 RAW file converted with Canon's DPP with the initial intent to limit the appearance of in...

Noticing that past attachments/illustration images no longer appear in the message board threads [at least with my browser, IE8] and that things are a bit slow... ...I decided to 'bump' this thread with additional comments and a link to the image that was used for illustration purposes. SNS-HDR Lite...

FYI... there are no issues as well on my system with 02-26-2011 latest version/definitions of Microsoft Security Essentials when specifically checking "...\Program Files\Digital Light & Color\..." with installed PWP5.0.1.10 folders and files

MikeG... Thanks for your comments. (1) tone mapping seems to be most effective where there are numerous histogram peaks scattered through the 0 to 100% [0 to 255] tone range which are typically present in nature landscape type images with lots of small detail rather than portrait type images where t...

Sebastian Nibisz has released v1.3.6 for his freeware SNS-HDR Lite program that provides de-ghosting and 'Presets' that were only previously available in the Pro and Home program versions. SNS-HDR-Lite_v136.jpg There is also significantly improved reductions for halos and noise that normally gets to...

Add'l comment... If there is a visual element or elements whose Input image's brightness, contrasts, and color you prefer [the tugboat or perhaps the dark land mass the peeks out from the histogram/mask dialog overlays] over the transformed image... ...1:1 Clone with a soft-side brush those elements...

MikeG.... Here is an Equalize example... The effect is subtle; difficult to show at posting resolutions; and works best as a refinement to an already near preference, full-range, brightness, contrast, color, 48-bit depth [or 16-bit B/W] Input image. For the mask, I tend to use a BrokenLine curve wit...

Charles2... It appears that the FastStone Viewer edits in the RGB color space model and is limited to 24-bit depth color... at least opening a saved PWP 48-bit color tiff working image, FastStone editing, and 'Save As'... seemed to only allow a 24-bit color tiff save. Am I missing something? Even so...