Post-Processing...gaussian-Shaped Histogram

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rmpsrpms Pillar of the Community United States 4038 Posts	Posted 10/20/2013 2:48 pm I've seen a lot of images published lately that have nearly perfect gaussian-looking histograms. Some are almost triangle-shaped. Is there some sort of exposure correction method in Photoshop or other editing program that results in this sort of histogram shape? I tend to make manual exposure adjustments but if there is an available algorithm that takes care of exposure like this then I'd really like to know about it. Or perhaps it's a secret...Anyway, TIA...Ray Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com Report this Post to the Staff

kanga Pillar of the Community United States 5825 Posts	Posted 10/20/2013 9:37 pm Wow! You are DEEP into Photoshop and image manipulation if you are playing around with that sort of stuff. I only have Photoshop Elements so I don't even know if I can do editing like that. From what little I know adjusting images that way is pretty much a manual procedure. Plus aren't your images supposed to look like your coin, not the way you'd like your coin to look? Report this Post to the Staff
rmpsrpms Pillar of the Community United States 4038 Posts	Posted 10/20/2013 9:40 pm True, which is why I've been doing manual adjustments all along. But if there was a way to get things "photographically-optimized" as a starting point... Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com Report this Post to the Staff
FadeToBlack Pillar of the Community 1751 Posts	Posted 10/20/2013 11:00 pm I think excessive post-editing is cheating. The only thing I ever do to my photos is reduce contrast and highlighting to neutralize slight overexposure. Report this Post to the Staff
rmpsrpms Pillar of the Community United States 4038 Posts	Posted 10/21/2013 12:35 am The goal is to represent the coin as best you can. If that requires a bunch of editing to accomplish, then it's not cheating at all! At least that's my opinion. That said, I try to make the image coming out of the camera as close to the final published image as possible. Most post-processing seems to result in the image being unnatural-looking... Contact me for photographic equipment or visit my home page at: http://macrocoins.com Report this Post to the Staff
FadeToBlack Pillar of the Community 1751 Posts	Posted 10/23/2013 4:33 pm I guess you have a point there... but I prefer to get the lighting and camera settings set to such a way that it requires minimal post-editing to produce images that are representative of the coin in hand. Report this Post to the Staff
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