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

[Chris G]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 03:58:27PM +0100, Mark Greenwood wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, that seems to be fairly easy, thanks.

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Chris Green