In this section the RGB data is permanently stretched. It is important to monitor the overall brightness and contrast of this image so that it blends with the Luminance data well. In addition it is equally important to remove noise in the color image. This is an area not to be too shy about- the detail comes from the luminance not the chrominance.

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