Adjusting Exposure of RAW images in Canon Digital Photo Professional

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Hi All,

I have been using Photoshop Raw to adjust the exposure, if necessary, of my RAW images; it's easy as there is a big slider marked "Exposure".

Adjusting Exposure of RAW images in Canon Digital Photo Professional seems a little bit of a mystery, at least to me :thinking:

There is a brightness slider and a Highlight Slider, and I think its the latter I need. The results I was expecting when using this are not quite as expected though. I've tried searching for "Exposure" in the Help file but cannot find any guidance.

Any pointers greatly accepted.

Thanks

Graydon
 
I've struggled with this too and reverted to Aperture with CS5 as editing tool, between them they do everything.
 
Under the RAW tab there is a slider for brightness, this adjusts the exposure. The highlight slider is to adjust the highlights funnily enough :lol:
 
There are tutorial videos here - http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=1228&fromTips=1. Hopefully you will find what you need there. Adjusting the "Brightness" control is essentially the same as increasing or reducing the whole exposure, just as you would if adjusting exposure controls in the camera. It basically affects darks, mids and lights equally. The adjustments for highlights and shadows obviously focus their effects at the extremes of the tonal range.

If you want to target adjustments more specifically then you can make basic adjustments to levels by tweaking the raw histogram, or to curves in the RGB histogram, either overall or separately for each RGB channel.

There is plenty of power in those tools. You just need to know how to access them fully. Hopefully the tutorials, while a bit long in the tooth now, will get you there.
 
tdodd said:
There are tutorial videos here - http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=1228&fromTips=1. Hopefully you will find what you need there. Adjusting the "Brightness" control is essentially the same as increasing or reducing the whole exposure, just as you would if adjusting exposure controls in the camera. It basically affects darks, mids and lights equally. The adjustments for highlights and shadows obviously focus their effects at the extremes of the tonal range.

If you want to target adjustments more specifically then you can make basic adjustments to levels by tweaking the raw histogram, or to curves in the RGB histogram, either overall or separately for each RGB channel.

There is plenty of power in those tools. You just need to know how to access them fully. Hopefully the tutorials, while a bit long in the tooth now, will get you there.
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Thanks Tim, I'll look at the tutorials. The controls in Photoshop seem to have a smooth predictable affect. With DPP the affects seem a little extreme, but I'm sure its just me. ;)
 
Been and had a look at the tutorials and can now see how it works. Looks pretty good, but not a replacement for PS - an addition. Thanks again Tim.
 
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