Photoshop plugins & filters - Contrast

Photo shop plug ins & filters - Contrast

Several contrast filters are included. They will eventually be combined into one plug-in with many options available. But for now, we have:

Maximum Contrast

This plug-in reduces the image to eight colors: Red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and white. That is how an image would look with its contrast at maximum level. The result is an interesting posterization effect:

Original picture:

Maximum Contrast effect:

Linear Contrast Filters

These are nothing new. They simply scale the image about the center value (medium gray). You probably already have this functionality available, but, of course, Pixie would not be complete without them. For now, this filter is implemented in two plug-ins, Increase Contrast and Decrease Contrast.

One scales each pixel up to 200% of its original value, the other down to 50%.

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Non-Linear Contrast

This filter is, in my opinion, much more exciting. It does not just scale the image, it applies a trigonometric transformation. As a result, it always preserves the highlights of the image. Two plug-ins are included for now, Enhance Contrast and Reduce Contrast.

The former uses a blend factor of 1.0 (i.e., it just applies the filter), the latter, of -1.0 (i.e., it uses negative opacity).

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Just to see how much more interesting the non-linear contrast transformation is, here are all four images again. The linear ones are above the non-linear:

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