![]() Look at the Histogram to determine into which Zone your boxed shadows fall. Place the cursor in the Black Point slot.įind the darkest area in your photo and draw an exposure box over it. Summary: Command Key > (right-click Draw Box) darkest shadow > Black Point > Up/Down-Arrow > Apply. This tool is not for extreme changes in exposure. Is to see how the histogram for those boxed tones moves as you increase/decrease the Compressed Exposure.Ĭompressed Exposure preserves highlights by compression rather than by clipping, but you can push it too far. Note that the concept of “midtones” in a UV photograph is somewhat arbitrary. I suggest leaving the range (R) of compression at the basic 2.0 setting. When looking at a UV file in the raw default mode.Īpply the setting with Command-R, then recheck the photo and the histogram and repeat as needed. To increase/decrease the Compressed Exposure setting by about 1.0 as an initial tweak If your midtones need brightening/darkening, use the up/down-arrow Look at the Histogram to determine into which Zone your boxed midtones fall. ![]() Hold down Command Key and right-click to draw box. Place the cursor in the Compressed Exposure slot.įind some midtone area on the photo and draw an exposure box over it. Uncheck the R, G, B boxes just under histogram to display only the Luminance histogram. Summary: Command Key > (right-click Draw Box) midtone > Compressed Exposure > Up/Down-Arrow > Apply. SET Compressed Exposure in increments of. Open a UV file in RPP and apply the default Raw UV UniWB preset followed by the Custom White Balance preset. The newly created WB preset should now be listed in the WB drop-down menu. Select Create WB Preset to pop up the name box. SUMMARY: Menu Bar > Settings > Create WB Preset > Preset Name > ![]() Select Custom to activate the white balance rectangular marquee.įind an appropriate area on the photo for white balance and draw the WB box over it.Ĭlick the Apply (button top right corner) or use Command-R to apply the white balance.Ĭlick outside the box to remove it from the screen. Ĭlick the WB menu at the top just above the histogram SUMMARY: WB > Custom > Command Key > (right-click Draw Box) white balance > Apply. Open a UV file in RPP and select the previously created Default UV preset from the Preset drop-down menu. Remember that a white balance preset is very specific to the combination of camera, lens, filter and lighting in use.Īdjust White Balance and Save It as a WB Preset Next, I'll show how to set a white balance and save it as a white balance preset. Select New to pop up the Create Presets menu. SUMMARY: Presets > New > Create Presets > Preset Name > Check boxes > OK.Ĭlick the Presets drop-down menu at the top above the histogram. SAVE the PRECEDING SETTINGS for a Default Raw View Remove dead or hot pixels or single pixel high ISO noise in shadows. Guess Tone: not selectable with previous setting Preserve highlights when increasing exposure. Check the small R, G, B, L boxes just under the histogram.īrightness: greyed out with previous settingĬompressed Exposure: Range 2.0, Value 0.00.SELECT SETTINGS for Default Raw View of Reflected UV photographĭrop-down Menu to the right of WB: select Color This tutorial does not cover all aspects of RPP.įirst I'll step through the settings for a default raw view of a UV file. Then I'll save those settings for re-use as a Preset. Note that this initial view of a raw view of a UV file might not always look so good.A big Thank You to Ulf for his help in getting me started with RPP !!.Raw Photo Processor (RPP): Basic Conversion of a Reflected UV File
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