Experiences with CIE Lab Processing – Follow-up

I worked more on the CIE Lab photo from the previous post and have some thoughts on what I’d do differently.

 First, I didn’t do a whole lot of value and contrast adjustments the first time.  I just created one Curve to adjust luminance.  Next time around I’ll add curves for brightening/darkening and for contrast enhancement/reduction.  All of these will operate on the L channel.

What I won’t do is get into Hue/Saturation or Selective Color.  If that’s needed I’ll do that once I get back into RGB mode.  Hopefully not much will be needed as we’re back with the old problems of RGB.

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Ralph Nordstrom is an award-winning fine art landscape photographer and educator. He lives in Southern California and leads photography workshops throughout the Western United States. View all posts by doinlight