Effect of Pseudo HDR treatment on JPG

[Don Schaeffer]

Experiment on two images--how do you feel about it?



untreated



treated




untreated



treated

[GB1]

Don, well, they look different. Honest opinion, the bottom one has way too many burnt artifacts in the clouds. The original isn't quite right either though, I am not sure why. With the top pseudo HDR, the group is a bit too dark I think, and the colors in the sky seem a bit primary / secondary. Worth an experiment but I think they're too extreme.

One question - what are you setting your JPG compression to? I see little squiggly artifacts in all four of them, which usually indicates too much compression. Would be much better for us to evaluate if the those artifacts were not there.

[Don Schaeffer]

Helpful GB. I think I'll stick to raw for these.

[n8]

How exactly are you doing these treatments?