In 1991, I noted the phenomenon that Wells calls combing, came up with a few ways to artfully trade off image resolution for reduction or elimination of the effect, and submitted a patent disclosure to my employer. They weren’t interested in patenting the ideas, but instead published it in order to keep anyone else from… [Read More]
Archives for May 22, 2012
Histogram depopulation in image editing, part 1
The penultimate paragraph in the David Wells photo techniques article that I have been discussing is the following: The point is to get a good exposure for a raw file, even if it looks too light as seen on the back of your camera. Do this to avoid a “combed” histogram which results when you… [Read More]