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12. Acronym list
O = Original picture.
GB = GBn(O) = Gaussian Blur filter with nthradius applied to the Original.
SB = SBn(O) = Surface Blur filter with nth radius applied to the Original.
WLS = Weighted Least Square filter, a better edge-aware blurring operator not yet implemented in Photoshop.
SS1 = Subtraction via Calculation, using Scale = 1; implies a later LL blend 50% opacity.
SS2 = Subtraction via Calculation, using Scale = 2; implies a later LL blend100% opacity.
LL = Linear Light (blending mode).
A simple yet powerful Photoshop tool to effectively boost the local contrast of an image, by means of a smart algorithm which avoids the clipping issues typical of methods like shadows/highlights. The user interface is simple and clean, with just one slider, allowing the user to customize the effect in a straightforward way.
In 2000 Imacon, now Hasselblad, created a new proprietary format for the Imacon scanners, the Flexible File Format or fff. 3F has determined the biggest revolution in the field of original analog scanning since the introduction of the drum scanner.
First of all forgive us the word play, which might come off as presumptuous. However, we felt like we came up with something that perfectly summarizes our philosophy in this arena by uniting the concepts of high resolution and quality reproduction.