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Chapter 17 Making Image Adjustments 361
Blue adjustment Eect
Move tonal curve down in the shadows. Adds yellow to the shadows, removing blue.
Move tonal curve up in the shadows. Adds blue to the shadows, removing yellow.
Move tonal curve down in the midtones. Adds yellow to the midtones, removing blue.
Move tonal curve up in the midtones. Adds blue to the midtones, removing yellow.
Move tonal curve down in the highlights. Adds yellow to the highlights, removing blue.
Move tonal curve up in the highlights. Adds blue to the highlights, removing yellow.
Working with the Highlights & Shadows Controls
An Overview of the Highlights & Shadows Adjustment
You use the Highlights & Shadows adjustment controls to correct the exposure in images shot
in complex lighting conditions. For example, you can use the Highlights & Shadows controls to
correct the exposure of the darker areas (shadows) of an image that was otherwise correctly
exposed for silhouette. You can also use the Highlights & Shadows controls to retrieve detail in
extremely bright areas of an image. This is particularly useful when adjusting images of clouds
or snow, or images correctly exposed for the shadow areas. Using the Highlights & Shadows
controls is the best way to optimize your image’s exposure in the highlights, midtones, or
shadows without compromising detail in the other areas of tonality.
You can also brush the Highlights & Shadows adjustment on selected parts of an image. For
more information, see An Overview of Brushed Adjustments on page 388.
Adjusting Highlights, Shadows, and Midtone Contrast
When you want to adjust the brightness values in the highlight areas of the image without
aecting the midtones and shadows, you can adjust the Highlights parameter. Although the
human eye is more sensitive to details in shadow areas than in highlight areas, such as snow,
there is usually a fair amount of visual information that you can retrieve in the highlights using
the Highlights parameter controls. Another example of when to use the Highlights controls is
when the background of your image is correctly exposed, and the foreground of the image
is slightly overexposed. In this case, you use the Highlights controls to make the overexposed
foreground match the exposure of the correctly exposed background.
Before Highlights adjustment After Highlights adjustment