Tom,
there are several ways to lighten up shadows, which to choose is difficult
to say without the image. If you send me the image (RAW and your tiff) I
would love to give them a try in my video podcast at http://meetthegimp.org.
Rolf
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Tom for...@gimpusers.com wrote:
What went wrong with the below photo when I tried to increase the
brightness
on the the darkest portions of the below photo? And what is a good way to
selectively lighten the dark shadow areas of a photo?
What I did
1. Created a 16bit tiff from a Canon CR2 RAW
2. Opened the photo in GIMP.
3. Made a new layer
4. Selected a dark part with the color selection tool which selected all
the
darkest parts of the photo as can be seen below.
5. Opened Colors/Brightness-Contrast
6. Increased the Brightness
which yielded the below disastrous results. The selected parts just turned
solid gray.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombrooklyn/4173460922/sizes/o/
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Tom (via www.gimpusers.com)
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