![]() Comparing the SOOC image to memory of the original scene, I determined that it would need slight shadow recovery, and slight saturation or luminance adjustments to (only) two of the bloom's main colors, plus a tweak to sharpening. ![]() So I decided to use a "very good " SOOC image of a Begonia in the beautiful light of the golden setting sun that, when I saw the bloom, I had to capture the image. But what about when just trying to tweak a "very good" SOOC image. OK, maybe not a problem for a very poor SOOC image that is trying to be saved. Adjust AI is stripped down to not have separate highlight and shadow controls, no way to control individual colors by saturation or luminance, nor other finetuning controls that are in the plug-ins it is meant to replace. In the end they were decent and far better than in the original SOOC image, but not what I would have preferred. BUT, creating the color renditions were a compromise requiring much trial and error. And the results obtained by a long and arduous application of the manual controls of Adjust AI came out quite good, by both mine and generally other's opinions in that thread. It was so bad though that it was worthy of playing with as a test of post processing software. In the second thread, the image in the OP was meant for the cutting room floor since it's only original purpose was to help the people around me see with a long telephoto lens what their eyes could not see thru the haze in the distance. The results, though a little intense, looked reasonably good and could probably be toned down by learning to control the application. In the first thread, I used a Topaz Adjust AI HDR preset with no manual adjustments. In testing Topaz Adjust AI so far, I had been using poorly exposed original images, trying to save them from the cutting room floor. I had written this in my previous thread about Adjust AI, but since it is buried under all the reply posts and will probably be missed by most readers, I thought I would just start a new thread.
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