Yes but he is talking about developing raw files with maybe 12 or 14 bits of information…your jpg are formed images with only 8 bits of data that are tonemapped and sharpened and denoised etc… You can edit them with most of the tools trying to recover shadows etc but the ability to recover detail or alter the images is much less that what you can achieve with a raw file… The sigmoid tone mapper is used to bring that wide dynamic range of the raw data down to an on average 8 bit display for output…Your jpg is already processed to 8 bit and it doesn’t need log tonemapping… but in the end throw whatever you want at it if it pleases you…
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Watch the tutorial from Aurelien Pierre that I already posted. It’s everything you need to know to get started.
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I made a big step forward, especially using sigmoid, tone equalizer and contrast equalizer.
There is often the situation, that I want to have a photo looks more “sunny”.
I tried yucca.dng (the last) from dt_samples – Google Диск
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