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

[Chris G]

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:13:43PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Try auto color correction tool in editor...
> 
I tried that and it didn't seem to do too much, except for "Equalize"
which messed things up completely.
> 
> 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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Chris Green