Thanks, Moose, for your research. I will follow up on those tools in PWP.
And thanks for the kind words on my curves effort.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 3/25/2016 2:22 PM, Moose wrote:
On 3/25/2016 9:20 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
Hi Moose,
I use Picture Window Pro, not an Adobe product, and it doesn't
contain the LCE and Curves functions as you know them.
Neither of these is unique to Adobe. I have seen, and sometimes used,
Curves functions in may image editing programs. I find it hard to
imagine that PWP doesn't have some way to change the curve.
----Curves
Ah yes, the call it "Brightness Curve transformation", pages 95ff in
the manual. Appears to work like the one in PS and other editors.
---- LCE
LCE is not a function/tool in PS in the way you imply. Similar sorts
of effects are available as sliders in most editors, unfortunately
under various names. It's called Clarity in LR and ACR/PS, although
it's not apparently exactly the same as USM.
I learned it the old fashioned way, as settings for USM (Unsharp
Mask). PWP has this as Sharpen Transformation, pages 195ff in the
Manual. I use Amount 20, Radius 50, Threshold zero as my standard, but
vary Amount to my taste.
Other settings of USM do indeed sharpen. These settings increase
local/small area contrast. I have it canned in an Action(Macro) in PS.
I did find that Nik Color Efex Pro 4 has a Curves function, which I
used for the first time to try to get close to your results. It
worked well enough that I have updated the image in my LUG gallery.
Here is the link:
http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Cross+Pen.TIFF.html
Nicely done. I'd have a hard time choosing between this and what I
did. Slightly different, but both good.
Thanks for expanding my horizons.
You are very welcome. Perhaps the above may take you further. :-)
PWP has very extensive tools and controls. If it did masks directly,
instead of the weird (to me), complicated way they do "Compositing", I
might be using it.
Moose
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