azurite has unique atmosphere, i like it too but something in the lighting looks "compressed", similar to the difference between 16 235 TV limited range and 0-255 monitors so it feels "heavier" than many modern weathers. The vanilla lighting also has this touch and so i guess it's a style in itself. A way to compensate for this is to push the brightness of the monitor very high, or use a lower gamma. At 2.0 gamma + 100 brightness, this screenshot looks very good on my monitor !
I usually mess with contrast instead of gamma only. I then fix the brightness with the other two in mind, it helps a lot with that feeling you mentioned.
that will induce massive color burn :c there is a limit to the amount of contrast a monitor can input and regrading all the grey to be whiter or blacker reduces the color range of the picture. And it will lack colors if the contrast is reduced. Basically once a monitor is calibrated to a set gamma with the correct contrast and brightness, messing with this contrast reduces the available colors shown on the monitor.
If you talk about contrast in a program like paint.net, yeah that works but for one picture only.... thoo with shaders with reshade it's doable , it helps a lot to use dynamic contrast shaders and sharpening too.
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If you talk about contrast in a program like paint.net, yeah that works but for one picture only.... thoo with shaders with reshade it's doable , it helps a lot to use dynamic contrast shaders and sharpening too.
Beautiful scene.