GIMP shadows/highlights plugin?

**Kexolino** · July 28th, 2011

I was searching around yesterday for a plugin for GIMP that can basically reduce and enhance shadows and/or highlights, and a I found the shadows & highlights script, which works, kind of, but is very slow, and it being a script, there's no preview.

So has anybody got/found a python plugin for this?
It would be really useful. My solution for quite some time has been to use Picasa. I have actually used Picasa before GIMP a lot, then switched over to GIMP in hope of improving... After quite a while I decided that I need both

I really don't like post processing though, to me that's not the point of it all, though I'm not a pro, or (pro) wedding photographer or something...

**ac_d600** · July 28th, 2011

The best program that I have found for handling shadows and/or highlights is
Lightzone. Sorta like Picasa on steroids, easy to use, but very powerful.

**Kexolino** · July 28th, 2011

Originally Posted by ac_d600

The best program that I have found for handling shadows and/or highlights is
Lightzone. Sorta like Picasa on steroids, easy to use, but very powerful.

I tried it out, but didn't like it too much. I find that the color levels tool in GIMP does the same job as Picasa's shadows and highlights, though it's a bit harder to use. I kinda overlooked this, because all the tutorials I have seen make use of it in a specific way. So I guess I have learned to try out things first in depth, then search around.

**ac_d600** · July 28th, 2011

The biggest reason I like using Lightzone or Picasa (which I'm using less and less
of now) is the speed I can go though pictures and quickly fix the ones It think are
worth saving. Gimp is great but its just too much software for my needs.

**Kexolino** · July 28th, 2011

Yes, it can be hassle. I personally use two workspaces for doing the photography stuff: on one of them I put the new photos from the camera on the comp, then look through them in an image viewer. Than the ones I think are worth editing, and uploading, I open with a right click > open with GIMP on the other workspace. Works pretty well if you have GIMP already open. Most likely this doesn't work as good as an all in one program, but I got used to it.

**ac_d600** · July 28th, 2011

I'm just about to install Digikam on my Gnome laptop, not so much for the image
processing but more for the photo management. So I hope I like it enough to justify
the large download.