I have much less of a problem in this regard than I had a year or so ago; the developers (I thought) had in the main fixed the main issues in this problem but it may also be that I am now more cautious in keeping highlights under control at the time of the exposure.
While there are a number of ways to fix the problem after the fact .. all of those routes are a nuisance. Best to start looking at the way that you are metering the scene. David On 03/22/2014 10:29 AM, Michael Below wrote: > Hi, > > Am Samstag, den 22.03.2014, 16:17 +0100 schrieb Hans Petter Birkeland: > >> Now is there something I have completely missed? If not, do others have the >> same problems? And is there a way to solve this? Maybe one needs Adobe's >> vast resources in order to get it working. > You might consider using the shadows & highlights module, with values > like -70 for the highlights, disabling the basecurve, and tweaking the > contrast manually. But darktable is not as user friendly as Lightroom in > this regard. > > To get the colors right, you will probably have to tint that blown out > region (I guess this is what LR does automagically). > > Here's a version of your image with an added tint in the blown part: > > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40088813/18032014_Oslo_0030_03.jpg > > I used the color correction module, correcting one unit towards yellow, > in a region selected as a shape mask, and a parametric mask for an > output b value between -128 and 10. > > Cheers > > Michael > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
