Famous B&W photographer George DeWolfe set out to tackle a digital imaging problem that he couldn’t address via PhotoShop alone. That problem, of course, being the digital camera’s inability to recreate what the brain is capable of seeing. Insert brain melting quote for all the geeks here, normal people skip over this and goto the pretty pictures…
PercepTool takes the image made in the digital camera sensor (also called luminance image) and changes it into what our brain actually perceives. The luminance image consists of 2 sub (intrinsic) images: reflection and illumination. The reflection and illumination images are separated from the luminance image in the visual cortex of the brain, processed and recombined into what is known as the percept, or the image that we actually perceive. We call this image luminosity. Most of the changes are due to differential recombination of the edges in the image and optimization of tonal values.
George’s solution is known as PercepTool and is a CS3/CS4 compatible plugin that really addresses the problem quite well. Grab a FREE trial and give it a try.
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