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Shadows/Highlights in depth

Shadows/Highlights in depth - Photoshop Tutorial

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Shadows/Highlights in depth

All right, I am still working inside that same Dead calm.jpg image, the only thing that I have done incidentally is jump the image to a new layer and apply the Shadows/Highlights command which is available under the Image Adjust submenu. All right, so I have applied a Shadows amount value of 10% and a Highlights amount value of 50%, but we need more control obviously. Turn on the Show More Options check box in order to reveal lots more options inside of this dialog box. So this is one of those classic struggles by the way between a product manager at Adobe and an engineer at Adobe. The engineer wants to give you every single option imaginable, and the product manager says, no, that's going to overwhelm everybody, let's go ahead and just show them these options, then the compromise is this Show More Options check box. So you can decide which way you want to go. Well, where this particular command is concerned, the engineer had it right. You want to see everything, even though it's…

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