[Digikam-users] What's the easiest way to lighten some underexposed pictures?

[Mark Greenwood]

On Friday 02 Oct 2009 15:33:35 Chris G wrote:
> I have a dozen or so pictures taken with my Fuji S8000fd which are
> somewhat dark because I left the camera set on the 'Sunset' position
> by mistake.  By the looks of the pictures all that the Sunset setting
> does is to underexpose by a stop or so.
> 
> What is the *simplest* way to simply lighten the pictures somewhat
> using Digikam?  I don't want to spend hours on each image trying to
> get the best out of it as they're not incredibly important but it
> would be good to just make them a bit better to look at.
> 
> If it's relevant I particularly need to lighten the darkest areas a
> bit because some of the pictures are of black kittens (they're not "in
> a coal cellar" though!).
> 
> 
Try the curves tool - give the curve a bit of a 'bump' at the bottom left.

Mark