Using levels instead affects brightness without color distortion.
I don't know what recovery function you mean, sad to say.
I think in Photoshop proper, you can find it either in the Bridge application, or as part of Adobe Camera Raw (which can be used on either raw .NEF files or on JPEGs, despite its name).
Like coraline, I'd like to pick and choose among them if I could. For instance, I like the molding and the incandescent-lit windows better in the darker one, but I like the sky much better in the lighter one.
One of the interesting effects of the darker one is that the building tower becomes much more prominent, since its brightness contrasts much more with everything around it. In the lighter one, there's more balance to the picture as a whole. Either could be a desired effect.
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Re: I've been playing with curves
Date: 2011-07-13 02:33 am (UTC)Using levels instead affects brightness without color distortion.
I think in Photoshop proper, you can find it either in the Bridge application, or as part of Adobe Camera Raw (which can be used on either raw .NEF files or on JPEGs, despite its name).
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One of the interesting effects of the darker one is that the building tower becomes much more prominent, since its brightness contrasts much more with everything around it. In the lighter one, there's more balance to the picture as a whole. Either could be a desired effect.