Correcting exposure and tone scale of digital images captured by an image capture device

A method for correcting for exposure in a digital image which was captured by an image capture device and which is to be printed on a printer which forms monochrome or color images, on a medium, comprising the steps of:

• a) providing a plurality of exposure and tone scale correcting nonlinear transforms, each such nonlinear transform being unique to an exposure condition and which corrects exposure and tone scale for a digital image captured by the capture device for such unique exposure conditions and to be printed by the printer;
• b) selecting a nonlinear transform from the plurality of nonlinear transforms and using such selected transform to transform the digital image and produce a new digital image which is corrected for exposure and tone scale when printed from the printer;
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• c) repeating step b) until a user acceptable print is produced.

A method for correcting for exposure in a digital image which was captured by an image capture device and which is to be printed on a printer which forms monochrome or color images, on a medium, comprising the steps of:

• a) providing a plurality of exposure and tone scale correcting nonlinear transforms, each such nonlinear transform being unique to an exposure condition and which corrects exposure and tone scale for a digital image captured by the capture device for such unique exposure conditions and to be printed by the printer;
• b) selecting a nonlinear transform from the plurality of nonlinear transforms and using such selected transform to transform the digital image;
• c) correcting the transformed digital image to produce a new digital image which is corrected for exposure, tone scale, neutral balance and color reproduction when printed from the printer;
• d) using the printer to print the color corrected transform digital image by the printer;
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• e) repeating steps b), c), and d) until a user acceptable print is produced.