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Correios Building, São Paulo, Brazil
Hi Colin, I haven't one own, however, I think there is one cheap dell in my work. In this work I used your photomatix and ptgui recommendation. Please, do you know some comparative tool to see the difference with colors palette?. Thanks
The "comparative tool" is your eyes. If you have a wide gamut monitor (and have configured your OS to display a wide-gamut image calibrated for it), then Lightroom and Photoshop can display the image with the wider colour palette. And they can also simulate what happens when you export as sRGB (the "soft proofing" checkbox on the develop module). Often the difference is very subtle but for some saturated colours it can be noticeable, and can affect which colour channels blow out. For example, the purple acoustic discs in my Albert Hall photo were very problematic wrt colour as they saturated the blue channel in an 8-bit JPG and were "out of gamut" -- I had to make some adjustments to the blue/purple levels/saturation to get them looking right. There was a clear difference between how well my wide gamut display handled those, and how a standard gamut (sRGB) handled them. But that isn't common. My point is you can't honestly export the work as AdobeRGB if you haven't seen what the image looks like in wide-gamut and compared vs standard-gamut. So just save it as sRGB. Really, AdobeRGB is a PITA and only suitable for sending JPG/TIFF files to a print shop. The very slightly wider gamut was designed to show colours on a display that a CMYK printer can print -- it was never designed simply as a better RGB display format. It causes so many display problems for people. Look a my User:Colin/BrowserTest with a mobile device to see the problem.
As for "photomatix and ptgui recommendation" I've never used Photomatix. Diliff used it years ago before I persuaded him to try Lightroom to tonemap his HDR images. And Diliff's experiments showed that PtGui was superior to Photomatix and Photoshop in terms of generating an HDR file (e.g. 32-bit TIFF). So my recommendation is
  • ensure all your images in the stitch set have the same white balance settings
  • export from lightroom in the best quality you can (e.g. use 8-bit TIFF or 100% quality JPG for speed, or 16-bit TIFF if you have a good computer and plenty disc) Just export in sRGB unless you have a wide-gamut monitor/workflow
  • stitch and generate an HDR image in PtGui (save as 32-bit TIFF, or PSB if it is really huge)
  • import to Lightroom again and adjust the basic develop controls, apply gradients, etc, etc, to tonemap the image successfully
  • export as sRGB JPG with quality level 90.
-- Colin (talk) 07:45, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]


Confirmed results:
Result: 11 support, 0 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Jee 05:16, 22 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture#Brazil