Free choice of tonal values

Let’s see what is feasible …

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Umm… just because you can, it doesn’t mean you should :grin:

Playing with a kind of sinusoidal tone curves gives surreal images, which actually may work, if you are lucky with the subject and careful enough with the curves. Recall for example pseudo-solarization effect from the film era, as a starting point.

Yes, and I too have done that and got some images that have pleased me (and many more I quickly scrapped). I’m not at my main PC at the moment but I’ll try to find, and share, one of those images later.

When I do, @gserim can respond in kind and be equally brutally about my image. It would by a very dull world if we all agreed all the time :grin:

Haha, but you learn a lot about the tool and how to use the tonal values - to the extreme.

I can try it, but I don’t know if I’ll be successful :sweat_smile:

The appearance after these manipulations often violates the sense of color. However, I like to do this in between in order to bring back more reality to the further photo editing :slight_smile:

Here you go, what think you if this one?
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Reminds me somehow of a picture I saw in an exhibition - hanging on a concrete wall. It was interesting because the background was cold and gray.