### 8.7. Exposure

This filter is used for lightning shadows and midtones of an image without blowing the highlights. A detailed tutorial can be found at Appendix C, Tone Mapping and Shadow Recovery Using GIMP’s Colors → Exposure… .

#### 8.7.1. Activating the Command

You can access this command from the main menu through Colors → Exposure….

#### 8.7.2. Options

Figure 16.129. Exposure Options

Presets, Blending Options, Preview, Merge filter, Split view

  | Note
  These options are described in Section 8.1.2, “Colors Common Features”.

Black level

  This option is used to dispense with "useless" shadows and highlight information.

Exposure

  This option is used to add one or more stops of exposure compensation to the image.

8.6. Saturation |  | 8.8. Shadows-Highlights

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