Detail from over-exposed areas

[Skrate]

Hi, I'm new to all of this but enjoying the introduction.

I've found advice on how to get detail out of shadows but much less on detail from highlights/over-exposed areas. I have poor quality but precious slides to convert. I'm looking at difficult ones first. I have one where the foreground is OK, but the background of snow/mountains/sky is very much over-exposed.

I have Silverfast SE Plus 8.

Under the default settings, and including ME while trying to manipulate light settings, the more distant and over-exposed areas, though visible on the slide, disapear on the scan . I assumed this was irretrievable until:

Solutions so far:

To change to greyscale and manipulate colour/light from there.
Under Edit/preferences/general to turn the Gamma gradation down from 2.2 to 0.7.

I was very impressed by the results of both. There was detail I could not even see on the slide. The greyscale produced the better image. But that was greyscale.

So is there any standard technique to get detail out of over-exposed areas/highlights ?

Any help greatly appreciated.

[LSI_Ketelhohn]

Dear customer,

You can directly access the Gradation dialog and edit the curve there.
Maybe that can help you adjust the brightness levels better.

The selective Color Correction (Selective CC) allows you to pick a certain color and adjust it's Luminance (The "L" slider).
That can also help to adjust certain values without changing the entire image.


Kind regards,
Arne Ketelhohn