Operation Manual

The exposure of the image is updated as you change the parameter value.
Recovering Highlight Details in the Image
Many images, especially RAW image files, have additional highlight detail that isn’t
displayed by default. Aperture provides the Recovery parameter controls to give you
access to that additional headroom. Because digital image sensors differ from camera
model to camera model, the highlight headroom varies. In some cases, you can recover
significant detail that appears lost or blown out in the most extreme highlight areas of
the image.
Note: The Recovery controls are not available for RAW decoding versions 1.0 and 1.1. To
make the Recovery controls available, reprocess the image. For more information, see
Working with the RAW Fine Tuning Controls.
To recover highlight details in the image
1 Select an image.
2 In the Exposure area of the Adjustments inspector or the Adjustments pane of the
Inspector HUD, adjust the Recovery parameter by doing one of the following:
• Drag the Recovery slider.
• Click the left or right arrow in the Recovery value slider to change the amount of
highlight detail to recover in the image by 5 percent increments, or drag in the value
field.
• Double-click the number in the Recovery value slider, then enter a value from 0.0 to
1.5 and press Return.
Use the Recovery slider
and value slider to
recover highlight detail.
The higher the value, the more highlight information is made available, and the more
highlight detail is recovered.
The image’s highlights are updated as you change the parameter value.
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