I wouldn't call it "cheating
PS to do tone mapping" - those are the built-in tone-mapping controls that I mentioned in this post:
http://forums.biorust.com/general-di...html#post50622 (Help with software)
However, in my opinion the example given in that tutorial is horribly garish and artificial-looking, which kind of bears out my objections to Photoshop's tone-mapping tools.