Unable to show Clipped highlights and shadows

Started by AlanS, June 04, 2016, 11:18:33 PM

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AlanS

In the viewer I am unable to show 'Clipped highlights and shadows'. I am using the 'T','I' keyboard shortcut. All other panels and overlays keyboard shortcuts in the viewer work for me. I might be missing something or is this a bug. BTW I can't find a menu item for this only the keyboard shortcut in the help.

Mario

This feature is not available in IMatch 5.5 at this time.
Doing this would massively slow down the viewer, because of all the calculations that need to be performed. This cannot be done using DirectX and I would have to fallback to normal drawing. It's just not worth the effort. I had this on my to-do list since December but I have no idea how to implement this with the hardware-based render engine we now use.

I shall update the documentation and remove that row from the table. The menu commands (and keyboard shortcuts) have been already removed in the 5.5 version.
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AlanS

not a big priority. Though it will be nice if/when it returns.

Mario

Usually your RAW processor image editor has much better features for this.
Most important, it applies the clipping to the "rendered" image, with the settings you have applied to the file. IMatch could only apply it to the RAW pixel data. The results will vary greatly in most cases!
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