like Kobaltkween wrote: GC is a tool, like the Exposure. Use then wisely.

GC is increasing the dynamics (amount of detail) in the darks, at the cost of dynamics / detail in the midtones and hilights. If it's too much you can reduce the amount, say 1.6 instead of 2.2. Or you can do some inverse Curves adjustment in Photoshop.

However, you cannot do the reverse: no GC in the image and a GC like operation in Photoshop, simply because Photoshop cannot improve on dark details which are not in the image in the first place. Even using HDR for image format doesn't help much.

Exposure does a somewhat similar thing: it reduces the dynamics in the hilights at the benefit of midtones and darks. So, exposure 4 brings a result quite similar to gamma 2.2, but still the GC is stronger in the darks.

See my measurements in a previous thread (my battle with BB on GC) - bottom of page 2:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2837547&page=2

In your image, your opinion is that there is too much dynamics in the darks: they brighten up and show too much detail. So: reduce gamma to 1.6 in Poser, or render with gamma = 2.2 and reduces shadow-dynamics in post. IMHO.

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