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Highlight Recovery

One of the challenges that all digital camera users face, especially those with years of experience shooting color film and slides, is preventing the loss of highlight details in scenes with a wide dynamic range. Bibble helps to solve this problem with its innovative Highlight Recovery tool. By using this simple slider, you can easily bring back 1/2 stop or more of detail from most images without changing the overall exposure or color balance. While certainly no substitute for getting the shot right to begin with, it's always nice to be able to get back that tiny bit of extra detail you might otherwise lose.

Even though one or more color channels in your image might be saturated, the nature of the sensor means that most likely one of the other less sensitive channels is not saturated. Utilizing the remaining data, Bibble 4.1 is able to analyze the image and provide data for the lost channels. When only one channel is gone, Luma and Chroma info is recovered. When only one channel remains, only Luma is recovered, but in both cases, you will have more usable image data than before. By using the HR slider, you will also be able to recover this data without affecting the rest of your image.

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Fill Light

Since the the introduction of our novel Highlight Recovery feature, we've received many requests for a similar tool that would help restore shadow detail.

Using a single slider, it is now possible to brighten the darkest portions of your images, while leaving the overall balance of the image the same. Like the HR tool, the fill light tool only modifies a portion of image's histogram making it easy to quickly get the results you desire without worrying about blowing out the rest of the image.

Of course, like all of Bibble's tools, the Fill Light is completely configurable as to its effect. In addition to adjusting the amount of exposure to add to the shadows, you can also adjust the "cut-off" point. This allows you to selectively just lighten the darkest shadows, much like a traditional flash fill would do, or gradually apply an "exposure gradient" to your entire image to bring up the shadows and also boost the mid tones.

The Fill Light can also be used in conjunction with Highlight Recovery to tame get more dynamic range at both ends of the scale when dealing with extremely contrasty subject matter.