C1 4 Levels...

Vesa_Ekholm

• June 11, 2008 16:26

Hello,

There has been discussion earlier about this subject, but I didn´t quite get it...

So would someone kindly explain to me, what these ´upper´ sliders in the levels-control do ?

Two examples: Firstly...if I´ve got image which is a bit burned. As I move the upper-highlight slider to the left, the red indicating burned parts of the image slowly fades away. So what happens there, does the program somehow dig info out of the burned parts of the image ?

Secondly: I´ve got an correctly exposed image with a bit of ´flat-line´ in the right end of histogram...and I move the right slider to left and cut away the ´excess´. As I do this the image gets partly burned. Then I move the upper-right slider to the left and slowly the burned parts fade away... What happend, how did C1 mend the image ?

Did anyone actually understand my question ? 😂

Ps: Sorry for any miss-spellings and my poor english, but this isn´t my native language 🙄

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  Justin221

  • June 11, 2008 17:47

  [quote="VKE" wrote:
  
  So would someone kindly explain to me, what these ´upper´ sliders in the levels-control do ?

  
  
  If I have a shot where the brightness values are hard-up against the right-hand side of the histogram I will use the upper right-hand side slider to bring the values back into the histogram. Likewise I would use the upper left-hand side slider to increase the brighness of the blacks.
  
  Think of the two top sliders as an extension of the bottom two outer sliders, when you wish you could move the bottom ones out and you can't, move the top two in.

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  Roine

  • June 11, 2008 17:52

  Se Jon:s reply here
  
  http://forum.phaseone.com/viewtopic.php?t=5805

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  Vesa_Ekholm

  • June 11, 2008 18:15

  Thanks to you both ! I think I´m starting to get hang of it 😎
  
  I´ve been using C1 Pro for 3 years now and been very happy with it... C1 4 seems like a nicely done upgrade (still waiting for C1 Pro 4) but those extra sliders got me really confused...
  
  Anyway, I quess that with a bit experimenting I get the bottom of this 😂
  
  Thanks again !

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  Roine

  • June 11, 2008 18:21

  Hello
  Try ctrl-F (Auto adjust) as a start
  
  And remember
  
  SHIFT key apply any given command or button to ALL selected

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  Vesa_Ekholm

  • June 11, 2008 18:44

  [quote="roine" wrote:
  Hello
  Try ctrl-F (Auto adjust) as a start

  
  
  Yes, I knew that and must say that the auto-adjust function works very nicely, except with levels... (it allways clips tones in the ends)
  
  I understand, that there´s no need to use the upper-hand sliders if I don´t want to...but since they are there...there must be a good reason for it and I want to learn to use them...
  
  There´s a saying in Finland - Kaikki hyvä aikanaan... I quess the english version would be - All good things for those who wait 😎

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