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Bringing out shadow details

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Bringing out shadow details

In this movie, I'd like to show you how you can adjust shadow details. Shadow details is one of those critical areas that we struggle with in a lot of different images. And in this case I'd like to use this photograph I took from my front porch looking across Kachemak Bay for morning sunrise with the southern Kenai Mountains. It's a great thing to wake up to. And let's say that we wanted to adjust just this portion of the image down here. We like the sky the way it is, we just like to adjust this portion of the image without adjusting the highlights and shadows. Well there is a couple ways to go about doing this. First tool to take a look at, which is a more generalized tool, is the Gradation tool, and couple of different ways to go about adjusting the Gradation tool. Just to remind you this is the highlight end, this is the shadow end, midtone, quarter tone and three-quarter tone. If we are going to adjust the shadow area we are going to be working in the three-quarter tone area. And…

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