I’d say so, in light of the recent discourse on scene-referred image data and processing it. Since I can arbitrarily order image operations in my software, I’ve been playing with keeping all tone modification at the end, even after output resize/sharpening, and I can easily say it doesn’t degrade the result. Need to look more closely to determine if there’s a specific benefit, but I’d posit that it retains color since you’re not arbitrarily shifting the RGB channels independent of one another until after all the other (chromatic?) work is done.
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