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Right, but what you are talking about is a very involved, creative process (what I would call color grading), not an automatic tone-mapping operator which you w
by pixel_fcker 10y ago
Right, but what you are talking about is a very involved, creative process (what I would call color grading), not an automatic tone-mapping operator which you would apply on an image and hope it doesn't look like crap.
- jacobolus 10y agoI think “color grading”, “color correction”, “photo retouching”, “image editing”, etc. are all pretty terrible names. Unfortunately there isn’t a great alternative name. The old term was “printing”, but to a layman that now connotes pressing a button to get an inkjet or whatever. * * * You can certainly come up with automatic operators which look better than “hard clip everything brighter than 1.0”. I agree though that there should be more work put into making usable tools for artists instead of “let’s magically fix the picture in one click”.