Studio Tip of the Day ... Use Luminosity Mode for Curves

Just a tip for getting rid of haze and creating contrast without altering the saturation of the image and without using the contrast slider which can introduce changes to the saturation. This is the original:

You can see the difference between using Luminosity and Normal blend mode … the Normal blend mode (top) alters the saturation as well as the luminosity but using the Luminosity blend mode simply alters the contrast via luminosity … this is called Luma Curves …

You can see the big difference in the Histogram …

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You can see from this particular image where it was back-lit and virtually unusable after recovering the mid-tones until using a Luminosity blend to recover Shadows and Highlights with Curves …

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Thanks for sharing Don.

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