Log Tone Mapping is a wonderful tool for dealing with high contrasts.
Does it also make sense to specifically increase the contrast in flat images? If you increase Target grey point and Black realtive exposure as well, it increases the contrast. The same applies if you also reduce White relative exposure. The results are pretty good.
I ask because I really appreciate this tool and it would be wonderful for my workflow to be able to do everything with one tool for the basic editing of a photo.
Hi,
Sure you can do both. Just watch out for crushed blacks if you push the black EV slider too far to the right.
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Hi Alberto,
does it really make sense to increase the contrast with log tone mapping? I know that it’s a tool for taming (reducing) excessive contrast.
Yes, I can now achieve magical tonal values using only Log Tone Mapping. But I don’t want to adopt any absurd methods.
If you want to increase the contrast in a flat image, would you use log tone mapping and if so, how? Or do you think it’s the wrong tool?
If you like the result, then you used the right tool.
So I can keep up, what is the base of the log used, or is that variable? Is there an explanatory link?
After some research, I withdraw the question, probably too simple.
Recant: I am beginning to see that my own simple view of post-processing is inappropriate to any comments that I might make about the likes of FOSS that is favored here.
It’s very nice to be able to manage the exposure, contrast and tonal values with just one tool. I like to do this with “Log Tone Mapping”, but I have to admit that being able to use the “Tone Equaliser” as well is the icing on the cake.
This allows me to improve additional tonal values that are not so easy (or impossible) to handle with one tool alone.
I am happy to give up the idea of a single tool for all cases when it comes to the optimum tonal values. These are my goal.