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Highlights and Shadows in 4.6

Lance_L
I'm just wondering how you guys go about adjusting for your highlights and shadows?

When I have something that is slightly over exposed I can easily move my exposure slider and bring it back no problem. But just recently I have noticed a few images where everything is good except my shadows. I've used the levels adjustment and moved the top left bar in to say around 5 to open my shadows and keep them from being pure black.

But then I decided to try the same thing with my whites and noticed that using the levels adjustment that way isn't really saving any information it more just remapping the whites to whatever number you are changing 255 to. The reason I'm wondering this is because I've lowered the exposure down and see detail coming back into the highlight area but if I change the level highlight number from 255 to say 245 or even 240 I'm not seeing detail come back.

Anyone else noticed this?

Lance
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    Maybe this helps:
    viewtopic.php?p=25945#p25945
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  • Lance_L
    Thank you for that link Paul.. I'm still going to have to do some tests and determine if moving the top slider from 255 to 240 actually recovers or just remaps the values. Not convinced yet that recovery is going on.

    Lance
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  • Jonathan Gilbert
    Lance,

    The top slider will only remap values, there is no recovery going on. The tools you are looking for is Highlight and shadow recovery in High Dynamic Range tools.
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  • Lance_L
    Thanks for that reply John,

    That's what I thought was happening instead of recovery. I really like the new software but I gotta tell you that the highlight and shadow recovery sliders are awful. The results I'm getting using those for shadows is awful. I have to push the shadow recovery tool too far over and it goes very flat. Maybe I'm confused on how it works you guys need to create somemore how to movies on this. It's not that images are under exposed either its just how the software is interpreting the shot.

    I can move my levels top slider from 0 to 2 and everything is fine but If using the shadow recovery slider I would have to push it so far that the entire image goes flat.

    Once again thanks for your reply.

    Lance
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  • Drew Endicott
    I was testing C1 compared to Camera Raw processing cr2 files from my Canon Ds1 Mark II.

    I was unable to pull out all of the shadow detail in the file with c1, using the dynamic range slider left it flat and very choppy in the darkest areas.

    In camera RAW there was plenty of detail in the shadows and the gradations were much smoother.
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  • Lance_L
    Drew that is pretty much the same thing I'm experiencing with my Nikon D3 files also.

    Thanks,
    Lance
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