Can you elaborate a bit on what "intelligent Luminosity Masking" would be and do?
Hi Jim,
Luminosity Masking is making selections of regions in the image, based on the scene luminosity. That allows to select e.g. Shadows for an Adjustment layer Mask, based only on Luminosity, not Color. So irrespective of the shadow color, the same selection can be made for different images with the same exposure.
The intelligent part would e.g. allow selecting an adjacent region to those shadows selected earlier, say dark midtones, or everything between shadows and highlights (threshold is user selectable or based on histogram counts), with a smooth transition between such adjacent selections, thus allowing a different adjustment to those regions without affecting the shadows (besides the smooth transition between). Tony Kuyper created such functionality for Photoshop, based on Photoshop actions and scripts (
http://goodlight.us/writing/videos/videos-1.html).
Other Smart/intelligent options could be based on different Luminosity clustering strategies, or Color and region clustering strategies (e.g. face recognition).
Combined with the possibility to manually adjust the masks, that would be something.
Cheers,
Bart
