{"id":350,"date":"2012-02-22T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/lightroomjournal\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:40:08","slug":"magic-or-local-laplacian-filters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/magic-or-local-laplacian-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic or Local Laplacian Filters?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lightroom and Camera Raw team has been very pleased with all of the positive feedback on the new image processing(PV2012) available in the Lightroom 4 beta. (It will also be available in the next major version of the Camera Raw plug-in<\/a>) \u00a0The ability to recover shadow and highlight detail with a straightforward set of controls without introducing artifacts or over-the-top faux-HDR effects is a huge leap forward in image processing. \u00a0I thought Scott Kelby summed it up quite well when he said<\/a>, “Your photos look better processed in Lightroom 4. Period.”\u00a0 Often, when a product from the Photoshop family produces something incredible, it’s referred to as magic<\/a>. \u00a0 However, the real magic is how the talented engineers at Adobe convert cutting edge research into elegant, easy to use software solutions.<\/p>\n

The cutting edge research in this case is a paper <\/a>titled, Local Laplacian Filters: Edge-aware Image Processing with a Laplacian Pyramid.<\/em>\u00a0 \u00a0The title is certainly a mouthful and the body of the paper will be difficult to comprehend unless \u00a0you’ve spent a fair amount of time with equations that contain more Greek letters than numbers. \u00a0But don’t let the complexity prevent you from downloading the paper and perusing some of the sample images that demonstrate the challenges and results using various processing techniques. \u00a0The research is\u00a0so impressive that it was published in SIGGRAPH 2011*, a prestigious journal in the computer graphics industry.<\/p>\n

Why am I sharing this very technical piece of information? \u00a0The team would like to share the praise that we’re receiving for the new processing controls with the authors of this research paper:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sylvain Paris<\/span>
\n Adobe Systems, Inc<\/span><\/td>\n		Samuel W Hasinoff<\/span>
\n Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and MIT CSAIL<\/span><\/td>\n		Jan Kautz<\/span>
\n University College London<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Note: There is also some contributing knowledge from this paper as well:<\/em> http:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/67030\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

*\u00a0ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2011)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lightroom and Camera Raw team has been very pleased with all of the positive feedback on the new image processing(PV2012) available in the Lightroom 4 beta. (It will also be available in the next major version of the Camera Raw plug-in) \u00a0The ability to recover shadow and highlight detail with a straightforward set of … Continue reading “Magic or Local Laplacian Filters?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,10],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-develop","category-general","category-philosophy","tag-autoimim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrj.mattalbright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}