Tonemapping, Abandoned barn

[PLouie]

I'm not sure why you say you have to shoot in RAW to do tonemapping. It's possible to open a JPEG in Photoshop and save it as a TIFF and then tonemap it.

[Floris]

ehm.. i think there's a plugin yes...

search google or adobe.com for tonemapping plugin cs2...

hope you find what you're looking for!
@PLouie: really? never heard of that..

tonemapping the tiff file in photomax then??

[annie]

Thanks for explaining Have a great vacation.

[PLouie]

Yeah, tonemap the tiff in photomatix.

[stevesutt89]

I know little on the subject, but what i know seems to suggest that tonemapping a file that was originally an 8-bit JPEG will not work no matter what format you convert it to. This is because an 8 bit JPEG (like JPEG's that Camera's output pictures to) has a limited tonal range-thus the camera has to clip the highlights and the dark portions of the photograph. So when the file is saved directly to JPEG format from the camera this hightlight/lowlight information is lost and cannot be retreived by converting the file to Tiff format which allows a greater tonal range. The reason it works with RAW is because a RAW file does not clip the highlights/lowlights, so it is possible for software to extract all the information and compress it into a JPEG without clipping, this process is called tonemapping-----or at least that is my understanding of the tonemapping process.

However i'm happy to be proven wrong, so if someone would like to explain how tonemapping a JPEG works-please tell

[TraxNet]

Nice colors, I wonder how it would have looked without chairs