On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:00 PM KOVÁCS István <k...@kovacs-telekes.org>
wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 00:18, Tanya Riseman <tanya.rise...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > You are supposed to use the tone equalizer module instead of the zone
> system module now. According to the manual, zone system is deprecated.
> >
> > The zone system is pretty easy for beginners to pick up.
> > The tone equalizer is much harder to get up to speed with. It lacks a 2D
> zone image.
> > It only has crosshairs that correspond to a hard to understand contrast
> mask, not the zone.
>
> The zone system was just one of the ways to define a tone curve. The
> resulting curve was applied at the pixel level (all pixels with a
> given value were affected the same way, without taking their
> surroundings into account). To replicate the same behaviour, you don't
> need the mask: select the 'simple tone curve' preset from the tone
> equalizer (this disables masking),
More precisely, choose 'no' in preserve details (in the masking tab), which
doesn't disable the mask but disables *smoothing* of the mask ("effect is
the same as using normal tone curves", according to the manual).
Juan
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