Hi All,
I am just starting to use RawTherapee, and I have been trying to set negative values to the Shadows and Highlights, but I cannot do it. I know this is possible in Photoshop and Gimp to get dark regions darker and light regions lighter. How can I do this in RawTherapee?
Thank you very much.
@gmp Welcome to the forum!
This tool is meant to push up the shadows and pull down the highlights: Shadows/Highlights - RawPedia. (A more effective tool for that is Dynamic Range Compression.) For info on other tools see: RawPedia.
The âblackâ slider from exposure can darken the shadows.
http://rawpedia.rawtherapee.com/Exposure#Black
Well, thank you very much for your replies. I wasnât missing that feature then. I guess I need work a bit more âunder the hoodâ then in the easy approaches provided by GIMP and Photoshop. Thanks!
In case someone in the future is interested, I found out how to do it. Using @betazoid suggestion to check the tone curves, I realised that when I selected the tone curve to be parametric, the options: âShadowsâ, âDarksâ, âLightsâ, and âHighlightsâ show up below the tone curve plot, and allow the setting of positive and negative values!
Thank you!
Yes, I told you! You are welcome! (I am just a bit sorry that you needed 2 days to find it out even though I posted screenshots.)
I feel so dumb now⌠
Please please donât. I didnât mean it like that. In fact I am the insensitive idiot. Sorry.
:)) I was just joking because the answer was so obvious and I couldnât see it! No need to feel bad! It was really funny. I am laughing No idiots here!
I would like to point out that the shadows/highlights tool works somewhat differently than the black slider and tone curves from exposure. The Shadows/ Highlights tool is designed to lift the shadows and pull the highlights in a specific way, by preserving the details yet reducing global contrast, by detecting edges and brightning/darkening whole tonal regions as a group. This differs to the other tools suggested, in that the exposure module blacks and tone curves do not make distinctions between global and local contrast, darkening, brightening on a context agnostic per pixel basis.
In simpler terms, the blacks and curves acts on individual pixels, and the shadows/ highlights tool operates based on how bright an area of a photo is overall (is it bright area, or is it deep in the shadows, or is it neither?) Hence the name shadows/ highlights.
Excuse me if I donât get this right, but isnât the shadow/highlight feature, in a very simplistic way, a slider that changes the shape of the tone curve, although automatically", and therefore, acting on the whole image pixels solely based on their value? By this I mean, it makes no distinction between edges of regions, such as tools using gradients to detect changes in image regions.
@gmp the Shadows/Highlights tool does not work like a curve, it does some more advanced things. See:
Shadows / highlights tool - #9 by agriggio
Test the new and enhanced Shadows/Highlights tool
