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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 492786" data-attributes="member: 12496">More camera exposure.&nbsp; Or now, just lower the White Point some.<img src="http://www.scantips.com/g2/wht2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The large peak in the histogram is all the white pixels, not quite white.&nbsp; More exposure would make them white. Or lowering the white point well into them makes them be white.&nbsp; I went pretty far here, to 198, just for the effect.&nbsp; &nbsp; It clips the white, losing all detail in the white.&nbsp; Here there is a slight pink cast, which should be corrected too.&nbsp; This tool is Adobe Levels (Photoshop and Elements), but it's just a standard histogram tool, in several editors. The free Faststone editor has one.It is the same effect as increasing camera exposure.&nbsp; Or for pictures with a separate background (a few feet back), the norm is to provide another light just for the background, to make it brighter, to be white.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 492786, member: 12496"] More camera exposure. Or now, just lower the White Point some. [IMG]http://www.scantips.com/g2/wht2.jpg[/IMG] The large peak in the histogram is all the white pixels, not quite white. More exposure would make them white. Or lowering the white point well into them makes them be white. I went pretty far here, to 198, just for the effect. It clips the white, losing all detail in the white. Here there is a slight pink cast, which should be corrected too. This tool is Adobe Levels (Photoshop and Elements), but it's just a standard histogram tool, in several editors. The free Faststone editor has one. It is the same effect as increasing camera exposure. Or for pictures with a separate background (a few feet back), the norm is to provide another light just for the background, to make it brighter, to be white. [/QUOTE]

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