Histogram feature could use some improvement

[ceg]

I've never had much confidence in AP's histogram, but had hoped it would get some improvements in AP 1.9. No such luck.

1. The histogram in the curves adjustment tool is absolutely useless. It only shows where all three channels overlap. It's been a bug for years, but yet ... it's still there.

2. The regular histogram during Raw development is questionable. Attached are histograms for an image that was composed in camera to have a well-centered histogram. Photo Mechanic creates a histogram from the jpeg, which looks about like the in-camera histogram DxO Photo lab (no corrections applied) shows a very similar histogram for he RAW file. Only Affinity is special. 😞

The image also shows screenshots of the image preview for all three versions.

I am using AP on a windows desktop.

Christoph

 

[NotMyFault]

I second this request, and would like to broaden the scope:

• There are lots of different types of Historgrams. Please make them user-selectable. For the case of RGB Color Format:
  1. RGB combined., using their own color (Historgram Panel)
  2. RGB+Intersection in white (Levels Adjustment)
  3. Intersection in grey (Curves Adjustment)
  4. Individual channels of R, G, B in their own color (Histogram, Levels))
  5. Individual channels of R, G, B in grey (Curves)
  6. Scope Diagrams (RGB Parade, RGB Waveform, ...)
• I want to select ANY of these optios above, in ANY tool (Histogram, Curves, Levels, and ANY other Adjustment / filter)
• Every Adjustment should show a histogram (user selectable option)
• Every Live Filter should show a histogram (user selectable option)

Thank you.

[Beatriz Castillo]

+1