Adjusting exposures

Let's tackle the Exposure brick.…This is a great brick, and as I said earlier, one of the two cornerstones for our…image adjustments; the other being White Balance.…So, in the Exposure brick, we have four sliders: Exposure, Recovery, Black…Point, and Brightness.…Now as these relate to the histogram that we discussed before,…the Exposure slider deals with the bright tones.…So, it's going to be working over here.…The Recovery slider allows us to recover detail that has been lost in the highlights.…

In other words, if we have really bright areas where there is no bright…detail at all, it's just paper white, sometimes the Recovery slider can help us…pull some detail out of those very bright areas.…The Black Point deals with this end of the histogram, the dark tones.…And then Brightness deals with the middle of the histogram, those gamma…tones, those middle tones.…So, let's use these four sliders to work on a picture, work on this shot right…here, and I am going to hit the V key once. I am going to hit the V key twice.…