Background too light

[Ken82]

Hi all,
Im having a slight issue im hoping some of you experienced guys can help with. Basically i cannot get the background to darken even after using DBE and ABE. It appears to actually lighten the background which means i cannot stretch the histogram very much. Ive also tried background neutralization which also lightens the background.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OYaKx0WBvpiF4wUbHkPpAtkaIFfqx8gW/view?usp=sharing

Thanks Ken 

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Ken,

When I first dowloaded and opened your image, and applied an automatic ScreenTransferFunction, what I got qas the first image - with a heavy red tint.

So, I 'unlinked' the STF sliders and tried again - which gave me the second imgae - at which point I could have tweaked the re-linked sliders for best contrast - but I would normally do that after DBE, BN, and BCC (all preceded by a Crop)

Just for your information, I have attached the sliders of the two STF setups (linked and unlinked).

Hope this helps.

[pfile]

yes i don't see a problem here - after DBE and STF->HT and another small histogram tweak: