Posted by Bill Pelzmann on August 11, 2006 at 7:39 PM
It's nice to see the math wizards at MIT are working on something practical for those of us that just don't have the time to mess with Photoshop.
See "Two-scale Tone Management for Phtographic Look". The downloadable paper is quite readable - if you ignore the equations. The bottom line - using their signal processesing techniques, the image is decomposed into a base and detailed layer, each is statistically analyzed and the appropriate tonal and texture adjustments are made. What adjustments are "appropriate"? Well, you just input one of your favorites, such as Adam's "Clearing Winter Storm" as a model, and your output will be adjusted to that high contrast, rich black style. They provide some nice examples.
No software for sale, yet, but I'm looking forward to making my very own Caudle and Stensland filters very soon!!
Posted by Craig Schultz on August 11, 2006 at 11:41 PM
Wow, it even matches the grain from the model image. Too cool!
Craig
Posted by Paul Martin on August 15, 2006 at 12:51 AM
Leave it to the nerds at MIT to reduce art to a computer program. Pretty soon they'll figure out a way to take a landscape shot without waking up before dawn and being there physically -- wouldn't that be sweet
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2 repliesSee "Two-scale Tone Management for Phtographic Look". The downloadable paper is quite readable - if you ignore the equations. The bottom line - using their signal processesing techniques, the image is decomposed into a base and detailed layer, each is statistically analyzed and the appropriate tonal and texture adjustments are made. What adjustments are "appropriate"? Well, you just input one of your favorites, such as Adam's "Clearing Winter Storm" as a model, and your output will be adjusted to that high contrast, rich black style. They provide some nice examples.
No software for sale, yet, but I'm looking forward to making my very own Caudle and Stensland filters very soon!!
Craig