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Recovering highlights and shadows

Recovering highlights and shadows - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Recovering highlights and shadows

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- As you make adjustments, it's oftentimes quite useful to split the difference between shadows and highlights. This is particularly true if you're dealing with a tough exposure or a high contrast scene. What this does is adds contrast to the image and improves the dynamic range. Let's take a look at another example. We'll exit the previous photo by clicking Done, and double-click to go back to the grid view. Scroll down and locate the HDR file here for the Burj Khalifa at Night. Select it and double-click to open it up. Now, click the Edit button to go into Edit mode. What I want to do here is really split things. You'll notice with the Shadows slider, how that affects the overall dark areas. And in this case, lowering the shadows a bit is actually improving things. And I'll actually increase the black point to get rich sky. Now, using the Highlights slider, we can further recover some of the glows. This is quite…

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