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Originally Posted by FarmerF View Post
Great app! I was just wondering if there was some explanation of the features. In particular the atomium screen. Seems to do some conversions to black and white but the differences between the bulbs and everything is not quite clear to me...
yeah there's a help section next to the exit button. but I haven't really described what the B&W filter does.

Essentially, that screen is to be viewed as filters placed in front of a lens shooting B&W film. It extracts the tonal data (decomposed RGB) of that color and re-creates the photo using only that tonal content. For instance if you have a photo of a red car and a green tree, click on the red button the tree will fade away into some bland gray, but the car should pop out (the way it would with a red filter) if you do the opposite and click on the green you'll see the tonal variations of the tree and the car will be "under-played". Using the correct filter can make crappy images at night or elsewhere really pop and become usable.

At least that's the intent.


Originally Posted by FarmerF View Post
In particular the atomium screen.
Ha I just got that joke, I've never been to Brussels

Last edited by lostinmirkwood; 2010-06-11 at 19:56. Reason: missed atomium joke
 

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