Moose, you have been a great source of information. So far as I can tell,
PSE does not allow one to select areas for the histogram. I will
investigate this.
Now that I understand that vertical clipping is not a problem, I will
concentrate on the highlights and see if I can improve my images. Thanks,
once again.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: More Experiments with ETTR
> On 9/8/2011 11:06 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> First, thanks for the exif info input. It does work in PSE 6.0, which I
>> use.
>>
>> I shoot simultaneous RAW/jpeg, and I open the jpeg images as a group in
>> PSE
>> 6, and click on them one by one, making notes of the file numbers that
>> show
>> promise. With your help, I can now get the exif data from those that I
>> choose to process. I then open the keepers in ACR, do RAW processing and
>> pass them to the PSE editor.
>>
>> I now understand Chuck's comment that he would like to see a magnified
>> image of the right side of the histogram.
>
> Can you select areas in PSE? In PS, select the area of concern, and view
> the histogram for just that area. That isn't
> strictly the top end magnified, but it does show any problems.
>
>> I can see how control of that end
>> of the histogram can prevent highlight clipping. What does one do to
>> reduce
>> the vertical peaks from being clipped? I have not figured this out yet.
>> Perhaps it is not all that important.
>
> Not important because it doesn't mean anything. If there are lots of
> pixels of a particular brightness, the may pile up
> higher than the display is designed to show, but it means nothing, being
> only an artifact of the screen display design.
>
> Moose
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