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Samuli Vahonen wrote:
+1 - this "black at tips"-issue is really annoying
There may be some improvement also; I clearly remember highlights slider doing this in Lightroom ~5 years ago. Now I have used mainly Adobe Camera RAW (I hate the Lightroom for the catalog stuff) from Creative Cloud for few years, which I understand has same "engine" as LightRoom and this issue did not become problematic often. But the tutorials all over internet telling to avoid sharp masks will cause these black tree tips no matter what software. Also some people willingly darken sky with gradient mask - oh why to cause same issues as real physical gradient ND causes when there are limitless possibilities in digital darkroom to do it better.
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ACR 10.0 still does that, Capture One too. RawTherapee has some degree of control over it (but that SW, especially last build is whole another level of can of worms ). SilkyPix actually doesnt, but its not very friendly SW and also has sorta soft demosaicing, which is kinda sad cause that thing gives rather impressive results in color department plus has some interesting unique options.
Rest, dont know. Easiest solution is Photomatix and just making two fake exposures out of chosen RAW developing SW. Or some conditional blend in PS while doing same (probably easier as you can just make one exposure, duplicate, lower exposure and blend).
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