Display P3 covers 25 percent more than sRGB
sRGB, Display P3 and ProPhoto describe different sized boxes of colour, and an image handed between them without a profile is being reinterpreted rather than moved.
Histogram · this frameShadows clipped, and left that way
OFF THE SENSOR · leading
Bayer arrays infer two-thirds of every photograph's colour
Demosaicing, white balance and a tone curve you did not pick. Camera Raw, Capture One and darktable each hand you a different opening position, and every edit after that is an argument with it.
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BY HAND
Masking took three years until Select Subject clicked once
Masking, curves, grading, retouching. Select Subject arrived in Lightroom Classic 10.3 and did three years of hand-painting in a click. Curves have not changed once.
MaskingCurvesGradingRetouching
Darkroom, stillNeutral row · 9.5 to 2
Photoshop's dodge tool has worked since 1990.
They are menu items now. They still work the same way, and they are still the first thing worth learning.
9.5 · white
8 · dodge
6.5
5 · mid grey
3.5 · burn
2 · black
Out the door
OUT THE DOOR →
Lightroom separates capture sharpening from output sharpening
The amount that is right for a print is wrong for a screen, which is why it belongs at export and not in the file.
A colorimeter takes twenty minutes and settles the argument
A ColorChecker or a SpyderX takes twenty minutes and settles most arguments about whether the file or the screen is wrong.
FREE & OPEN
Free and open, and not a compromise in every direction
darktable, RawTherapee, GIMP and the browser editors. Four programs, developed in the open, each linked to its own project page.
FREE & OPEN →Fifteen named, and they do not agree
Programs →
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