Using the Shadow/Highlight filter

Because the camera's sensor is imperfect, it can only succeed at capturing…either the highlights or the shadows, but not both.…Our goal is to restore, as best we can, whatever detail we can.…In this video, we'll take a look at the Shadows/Highlights Filter.…Now, I'm using the image that we're going to be going through with the rest of this title.…This doesn't have the extreme kind of highlight-shadow issue that we looked at…earlier with the interior of the church,…but it still will benefit from moving that away from the kind of exposure that…the camera naturally is going to give it.…

This is a good overall exposure, but we still want to move it away a bit,…and again the goal here is to transition from the language of photography to the…language of painting.…So in the language of painting, exposure is going to be much more even…throughout, because of the way the human eye looks around at the image and builds…it up over all of these varying parts of the image that it puts together.…So let's go to the Highlights/Shadow filter, and it's in Image > Adjustments,…