Den,
No worries (perhaps a new forum rule should be no posts until after a good breakfast - lol). Your comments and accompanying images, along with your latest follow-up comments, helped solidify some things for me. Awhile back, while experimenting with NX2, I tried a curve option that allowed changes to luminance without affecting saturation and hue and I found the results a bit flat compared to what I had been used to, but your recent comments helped clarify that issue. Funny, I just finished 30 years in law enforcement and I find solving homicides far easier than this image editing stuff!!
Marv
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