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

Gilles Caulier caulier.gilles at gmail.com
Fri Oct 2 16:13:43 BST 2009


Try auto color correction tool in editor...

Gilles

2009/10/2 Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com>:
> 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
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