Highlight reconstruction rebuilds clipped channels from the chromaticity of
unclipped pixels nearby. Three changes to that colour:
- an unclipped pixel counts by its brightness ((m / 0.8 clip)^4, at most 1),
filled coarse to fine by push-pull, so dark wires across a bright cloud no
longer tint it (the iPhone frame of #548 turned cyan at Highlights -100);
- pixels within 6 px of clipping (partly demosaiced from clipped samples, 25 %
greener than the sky on that frame) give no colour unless nothing else does;
- the rebuilt colour is drawn toward neutral at its brightest channel as more
channels clip ((n - 1 + s) / 2, s rising as the next channel nears its clip).
Binned previews keep each channel the mean of its block and mark blocks with a
clipped sample in a mask (develop_binned_masked, reconstruct_masked), instead
of taking the block maximum: one clipped specular sample no longer becomes a
green speckle at 500 px (HUAWEI PRA-LX1, WAS-LX1A). The denoised twin uses the
same mask. Camera-colour fitting keeps the old binning.
RENDER_CACHE_VERSION 26 (adjust at merge).
A DNG can state a white level the sensor never reaches (an iPhone 15 Pro Max Bayer DNG states 4095 but clips at 3567), so clipped highlights were not recognised and white balance tinted them magenta. On decode, samples that form a plateau clearly below the white level, with nothing above it, are raised to the white level. RENDER_CACHE_VERSION 25 (needs adjusting at merge).
preset, background, resize, subfolder, conflict, tiffCompression and
dngCompression were in the export tool's schema (and so passed the new
argument check) but were dropped before reaching app.export.
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std::process::exit skipped eframe's on_exit (ui.json, close_library) and the
may_close check, so changes still in memory could be lost on Cmd+Q.
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The earlier text quoted the 13 investigation files (held-out RMS within 0.005); the whole CC0 archive shows a worst increase of 0.013 and 7 files that need the conditional-median fallback.
With a CropAngle, Lightroom's CropLeft/CropTop and CropRight/CropBottom
are the top-left and bottom-right corners of the tilted crop on the
stored image, and its angle turns the other way to LightCraft's. The
import treated the edges as an axis-aligned rectangle in the rotated
frame and kept the angle's sign, so straightened crops came out the
wrong shape and size.
Carry the two corners through the orientation and then LightCraft's
straighten rotation (angle = -CropAngle, mirrored orientations flip it
back), using the stored image's aspect from fileWidth/fileHeight. On a
real catalog every one of 223 straightened crops now matches the frame
of Lightroom's export, and the content difference falls to that of
unstraightened crops.
Refs #483
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