Highlight recovery
DxO Lighting and Highlight Recovery
A common problem in digital photography is clipped highlights, when pixels have maximum values in one or more of the colour channels (red, green or blue). DxO’s Highlight Recovery feature can correct this when working with RAW images. Provided that only one channel is clipped, the software can restore lost tonal information. It does this by analysing the ratio of R, G and B colours in adjacent unclipped pixels and making local gamma adjustments to assign new values to the affected area. The result is that natural-looking highlight detail can be retrieved from overexposed areas.
Result of cascading DxO Lighting and Highlight Recovery, better contrast while recovering details in the in the sky