Originally posted by Nicolas06 No offence but I find GIMP not the best for that kind of task.
None taken. But for me, over 90% of the time I'm just using Levels, Curves, Brightness/Contrast, Heal and/or Clone (for sensor dust) and Crop. It's not rocket science, and for this GIMP works well enough, especially for the price.
(I do agree, however, that GIMP is not great to, for example, correct white balance.)
Originally posted by asp1880 You might need to set your ISO to something other than 100 to have access to highlight correction "on".
Indeed. On my K-3, the "On" option appears from ISO 200 (it is also absent at ISO125 and 160).
Quote: Thanks again! I think this will be helpful to me and I will be playing with these.
BTW, to get a bit more specific, here's an example of my own corner cases, those where I find I have problems with my JPGs. I do a lot of flash macro work. In fact, it's the vast majority of my shooting. Often, that means that in the background there will be some bokeh'ed leaves or other features that gradually fade to black. That's where the (JPG) image is usually the weakest.
Take this shot - with which BTW, I am, overall, super happy:
If you look at the right of the frame, there is some green coloration just above the middle, that gradually fades to black as you go up in the frame. That transition is pretty weak, IMHO. You can see what I am calling "banding" there, and that phenomenon gets worse if/when you add contrast to the image. I suspect it would be much easier to avoid these imperfections starting from a RAW file. But I'll see if tweaking Shadow Correction and/or "Contrast Shadow Adjustment" can improve the situation when shooting JPG...