Fwd: [darktable-dev] Updating the manual

2018-11-14 Thread Bruce Williams
Great explanation Ulrich! Thanks for that. Cheers, Bruce Williams. -- Forwarded message - From: Ulrich Pegelow Date: Thu., 15 Nov. 2018, 05:18 Subject: Re: [darktable-dev] Updating the manual To: Hi Bruce, you can consider the strength of the module's effect to be contr

Re: [darktable-dev] Updating the manual

2018-11-14 Thread Ulrich Pegelow
Hi Bruce, you can consider the strength of the module's effect to be controlled by two gradients or ramps. One for the highlights and one for the shadows. The shadows gradient has its maximum value at L=0 and linearly goes down in the direction of the highlights. For the highlights gradient it

[darktable-dev] Updating the manual

2018-11-14 Thread Bruce Williams
Hi all, Andreas suggested I should seek clarification on the compression slider, specifically in the "shadows and highlights" module. The manual doesn't explicitly state what ranges of shadow and highlight values are affected for given compression levels. In my latest video, I suggested that at 0,