Curves

March 22, 2011 ·

Mark Segal

Since the appearance of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop CS3 Beta with Camera Raw, then CS3 with Camera Raw 4.x people have been asking about where best to implement luminosity and colour adjustments. Lively discussion of this matter occurred most recently on this website'sForum, and since before that on theApplied Color Theory List(ACTL), a Yahoo membership group run by Dan Margulis.

Mark Segal, a member of ACTL, and contributor to this website, was an early adopter of the new software products and has printed a large number of images from his raw files processed using CS3 and Camera Raw 4 in both Beta and commercial versions. Much of the recent discussions have focused on the question of using Curves and other luminosity adjustment tools in Camera Raw 4 and Photoshop.

Based on his experience using these applications, Mark found a number of positions taken in these discussions surprising, and decided to test the various arguments. He thought the results of this work ...

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Mark Segal

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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.

Curves

Mark Segal

Mark Segal

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