Hi, If you want to reduce brightness in the blown highlights without darkening the whole image you should reduce the contrast. I would recommend turning off the base curve, turning on highlight reconstruction, and turning on a low contrast curve. Then, using the clarity preset in the equaliser helps to retain image details in the low contrast setting. Cheers Michael
Am 4. Februar 2017 04:03:47 MEZ schrieb Anton Aylward <li...@antonaylward.com>: >I have a picture of a white barrel cactus (Cleistocactus icosagonus) >which was >taken in strong light, bringing out the white 'leafs'. The >illumination is >along one edge, rather like a crescent moon. The crescent is overblown >whenever >I convert to JPEG, and I can't figure out how to manipulate it down >without the >rest of the image being darkened or distorted. > >Other than ending up dealing with layers in GIMP, or somehow masking >the >crescent, which, because of the spiky leaves might be awkward, what can >I do >about this? I there some way to 'flatten' the top end of the white >alone? > >I know some controls have sliders, but, for example, keeping the R&G&B >all >aligned is difficult. Is there a way to do numeric input or lock >sliders together? > >Or am I just approaching this the wrong way? > >-- >The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical >invents >the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. > --Mark Twain >____________________________________________________________________________ >darktable user mailing list >to unsubscribe send a mail to >darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
