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Recovering Highlight Details in the Image
Many images, especially RAW image les, 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 dier from camera model to camera model, the
highlight headroom varies. In some cases, you can recover signicant 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 An Overview of the
RAW Fine Tuning Controls on page 289.
To recover highlight details in the image
1 Select a photo.
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:
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Drag the Recovery slider.
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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 eld.
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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.