D-Lighting
Anyone new to NC4 or NX may wonder what D-Light is in the base adjustments list.
D lighting is part of the Base Adjustments and is available for all image formats.
In cases of underexposure or backlighting this can be used to draw out shadow and highlight details.
Two screen captures are attached to give an idea of what D-Light will do.
Its control box is available by clicking the arrow by Base Adjustments. A drop down menue of available options will be displayed. Click on the arrow for Light and Colour Adjustments, finally click on the arrow by D-Lighting.
This control is available in 2 flavours - Faster or Better Quality. In either flavour the sliders will adopt a default position, and the image will display the effect of that setting. If you have a large file or are at high magnification this may take a few seconds. The available sliders can then be moved to achieve the desired result which will be displayed.
When you are aware of what D-Light can do, you may find that as in this case, that you can deliberately base exposure biased towards the sky as you could draw out shadow detail in pp.
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