Oct 28, 2004, 00:27
ok ok ok, so I've spent approximately 4 hours in a course over the last two weeks and it took the guy teaching me that long to get to the subject of Levels and Histogram.
While I don't really know what I'm looking for in a histogram (apart from Histogrammy goodness) the concept of levels has intrigued me. I had some buggered up shots where the background was lit white so that the foreground was dark as buggery (that's a lot btw). With levels I found I can get a better result than trying the contrast/brightness approach. And it's opened up some photos that I thought I'd junk before this. However, I *think* I get some noise with that answer. I certainly get noisier than I like with the contrast/brightness approach.
What are some approaches people use to levels and noise reduction?
Next step after this is saturation and colour balance.. but baby steps gd, baby steps.
While I don't really know what I'm looking for in a histogram (apart from Histogrammy goodness) the concept of levels has intrigued me. I had some buggered up shots where the background was lit white so that the foreground was dark as buggery (that's a lot btw). With levels I found I can get a better result than trying the contrast/brightness approach. And it's opened up some photos that I thought I'd junk before this. However, I *think* I get some noise with that answer. I certainly get noisier than I like with the contrast/brightness approach.
What are some approaches people use to levels and noise reduction?
Next step after this is saturation and colour balance.. but baby steps gd, baby steps.