Originally posted by Jewelltrail Panoguy, yes, it does make sense--more than I thought it would.
Cool.
That doesn't happen too often when I explain things...
Originally posted by Jewelltrail Thank you very much for taking time to explain things. It looks like I just need to start developing some images with the Photomatix software and seeing what happens. And now I understand why there are several smoothing controls too--since contrast is controlled with several sliders too.
Ah, so you are also looking in the "Miscellaneous" controls as well! Right you are to experiment like crazy - with so many sliders it can be tiresome but at least the previews come up pretty quick. (Note: for the misc. sliders, you really need to look at your image at 100% to accurately see what they are doing... maybe even process and save the image.)
Have fun!