Digital Light & Color

jsachs wrote:You can make up to four masks without a transformation using Transformation/Masks.

Great! I should read the f* manual - even before you finish writing the f* manual.

Apparently, we cannot make a mask until we begin a transformation. One consequence is that every applied mask operation entails waiting for the transformation to recalculate, too. For example, I open Equalize and begin a mask by brightness curve. Every time I add or move a point on the brightness cu...

For what it may be worth, below are the settings I use for a NEC PA series monitor. The monitor stores its calibrations in an internal lookup table rather than in the graphics card of the computer, so if the BenQ does the same, the settings are worth a try. I calibrate the monitor to Adobe RGB color...

"what your aim is - increase contrast, maybe??" No aim; the recipe I gave looks different to me than adding contrast (whether by combining an image with itself through Soft Light or by other means). It is a special effect, different from the overt watercolor effect, each helpful in particu...

The Watercolor transform can add drama without turning the photo into a watercolor painting. You can see a before and after comparison at https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4772/40173916014_435eecbd01_o_d.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4775/27011602598_8464946e1e_o_d.jpg The recipe was: set output t...

Raw Therapee for my Fuji raw files. The RT teams started from dcraw -- and did great things with it. Raw Therapee supports .dcp camera profiles, and they did a good one for Fuji X-Pro 2 (which could probably be used for the Fuji X100T, too).

This is exciting. Two minor items from PWP 7: 1. When I crop, I almost always use the Golden Rule guide lines. However, I cannot get the transformation to remember this choice as part of the saved default. 2. Selective Color Correction is one of the most precious tools in PWP. Does it make sense to ...

I would not have got fairly deep into photography as a hobby if I had wrestled with the big gorilla Photoshop. By chance I came upon PWP, which gets the credit or blame. Its transformations are simple yet with such depth that every few months I get into something about image development that I did n...

A slight rework for DLC consideration: add a 4-zone adjustment and put the 2, 3, and 4 zone adjustments into one dialog with choice of number of zones. Hold one choice as the user-set default upon opening the dialog.

Why? Often enough I work on the second highest quartile, roughly.

Just to restate the main point here, the basic operation of a raw developer is demosaicing: it takes the data that the camera recorded through a color filter array (almost always Bayer, but Fuji X cameras use Fuji's X-Trans array) and creates an R,G,B triplet at each pixel. Then post processing mani...