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/ > > -- > Tom (via www.gimpusers.com) > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU > https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user >
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