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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Give it a try. I just stumbled over that Local-Contrast thing because Gilles wrote about it, that it will be multi-threaded in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">And it is really *amazing*, like digikam overall!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Gilles, keep on the great work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Eru a big fan of DK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Erich Steiner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Decentral Systems Zürich<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">+41 44 334 76 34 (*414 7634)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> digikam-users-bounces@kde.org
[mailto:digikam-users-bounces@kde.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Verizzo<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 10, 2014 6:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> digikam-users@kde.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Digikam-users] A modern auto-fix?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Thanks, I didn't catch that, I'll look into it.<br>
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Nevertheless, wouldn't something as I described, a one touch fix, be wonderful? Not that I can write a damned bit of code, so beggars can't be choosers as we say over here. (USA)<br>
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Paul </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 5/10/2014 12:11 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>digiKam has LocalContrast tool which make the same correction to<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>image. In fact it emulate pseudo HDR rendering.<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Gilles Caulier<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>2014-05-10 18:07 GMT+02:00 Paul Verizzo <a href="mailto:paulv@paulv.net"><paulv@paulv.net></a>:<o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Background: I've been in digital photography since 2000, decades of film<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>before and since. I'm certainly familiar with the use of curves to correct<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>bad photos. But so tedious, and if the photos are snapshots, hard to<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>justify the time. It appears to me, although I can't prove it, that digital<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>cameras, discrete or within phones, seem to be doing a much better job<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>automatically adjusting curves than my old Minolta A2, for instance.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>I recently became aware of a new free Canon program, My Image Garden, that<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>has a much improved Auto-fix than its forerunner. As an example, a backlit<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>photo processed in MIG will bring up only the shadows while leaving the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>normal and highlights alone. It allegedly uses a zone by zone analysis. It<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>is a terrible program in every other regard, clunky interface, bloated, etc.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>But I used it for some recent pics to advantage.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>Some of those pictures were originally on my Windows Phone 8, which I had<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>copied to the HD. Before I deleted them from the phone, I poked around with<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>the options at that point. I found an auto-fix, pushed the "button," and my<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>jaw dropped. Literally. A very dark, underexposed shot made perfect! This<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>feature is within the Nokia programs! It is so good, I can see myself<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>transferring photos from other sources into the phone for correction! And<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>it's fast, even so.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>I went back through the digiKam manual and looked on screen, and I see the<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>old standbys there, but nothing like what I've experienced with the above.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Oh, upon lots of research, I found a 2007 $40 program called Photoright that<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>upon test, seems to be doing similar zone adjustments.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>Bottom lines: Are my observations valid? Do you think DK might get<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>something like this? Oh, yes, all Windows although MIG is available for<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Mac.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>Thanks, Paul Verizzo<o:p></o:p></pre>
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