Selective tone versus Tone curve

[Joanna (Joanna Carter)]

Can I refer to a thread that you and I participated in a while back…

Selective Tone / Highlights too "broad"

I’ve just created a graph of luminance values taken from the left, centre and right of each of the stripes in the test pattern, showing the differences when the Black slider is boosted to +100 and the Highlights slider is cut to -100 [Capture d’écran 2022-03-22 à 10.53.36] For the Black + 100 adjustment, the first stripe remains at 0, which makes me wonder why it is called Black, since that stripe doesn’t get altered in any way. Then, subsequent stripes do not change equally but, instead, as a…

This thread demonstrates the real problem with Selective Tone and why, if possible, you should try and use Tone Curve.