I think the red channel is ok, level does not always tell the whole story. I
use eyedropper to go over the brighter part to see if there is real blown in
the RGB channels.
Sharpen also make the histogram look worse, both ends will look clipped
while it may not necessary be the case.
To me Brian's image looks a little too strong in LCE setting.
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Norcutt"
>I think it looks pretty good but since Moose probably isn't here to tell
> you I'll assume the role to tell you the red channel is a bit blown on
> this image. (check the levels function in Fast Stone and select the red
> channel) The JPEG that Jim sent is also slightly blown but your editing
> has made it a bit worse. Unfortunately, you can't pull it back from a
> JPEG as you could likely do from the raw file. Fast Stone can convert
> raw files but gives you no control over the conversion process and
> essentially recreates something close to the camera's JPEG. Therefore,
> no advantage to processing raw files in Fast Stone. Strangely the
> original JPEG also exhibits some posterization in the low end of the red
> channel... as though some heavy 8 bit editing had already been done on
> it. I don't know why that should be.
>
> Well, just like Tina's image where I "complained" of blown highlights I
> like the image just as I liked hers. But I think starting from a raw
> file editor like ACR it could be even a little bit better.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 12/7/2012 3:46 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
>> Jim Nichols showed us, a few days ago, a couple of images of Poinsettia
>> he had prepared using Adobe products.
>>
>> I wondered how FS would handle this topic, so asked Jim if he would send
>> me a 1000 pixel-wide jpg file straight from his RAW file with no editing
>> at his
>> end.
>>
>> I was delighted when he agreed, so I did a quick test.
>>
>> I think it's worth sharing, so here it is for a few days:
>>
>> http://www.brianswale.com/temp/
>>
>> What do you think of the abilities of FS in my hands?
>>
>> Brian Swale
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