Reference:
Celine Latulipe, Ian Bell Charles L. A. Clarke, Craig S. Kaplan
GI '06
Summary:
While existing photo manipulation software is extraordinarily powerful, the knowledge and learning required to utilize all of the featers is often prohibitive. To alleviate this, symTone was created. SymTone utilizes a dual-mouse system to easily provide a way to fully explore the tone mapping domain. While most programs track tone information and the tone reproduction curve in a seperate widget, requireing users to split their attention between the picture and the information, symTone overlays the TRC on the image itself. The left hand controls the lower bounds of the tone range and the right controls the upper. After collecting data from 18 participants in the experiment, 13 preffered symmetric bimanual curve manipulation.
Discussion:
Since I dabble with photo manipulation software, I can attest to the learning curve required to effetively use the software. I recently helped a friend who was attempting to correct the RGB spectrum of a video that had been recorded with strange settings. After half an hour spent manually adjusting the various fields, we were only slightly closer to our goal. While reading this paper, I kept thinking about how much software like symTone could have helped us achieve the result we were lookning for.
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