I think if you play with Shadow/Highlights for a while, you'll find it's a very valuable tool. It allows you to achieve more narrowly targeted control of highlight and shadow areas than does either curves or levels. It also has the ability to restore midtone contrast after bringing up the shadow areas. According to documents I've read, it's actions can't be fully duplicated with other PSCS controls.
> > On Apr 11, 2005, at 4:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> I took a copy of your original JPEG and made a very slight edit > >> opening > >> up the shadow areas only with a Curves Adjustment Layer and a mask. > >> I'll send that to you for your evaluation. > >> > > > > And a pretty good job it was too, especially considering you worked > > from the web > > version of the pic. I'm not too clever with curves, I need to spend > > more time > > playing and reading tutorials with the Curves and also with the (new > > to me) > > Shadow/Highlight adjustments. > > Thanks. > > I've never used the Shadow/Highlight adjustments ... I always use > Levels and Curves in Adjustment Layers, with masking to apply the > adjustment selectively. > > > I don't mind if you put up your version of the pic for 24 hours or so > > to show > > others what you managed to get out of it. > > Sure ... Just remind me to delete it soon as I tend to forget... > > http://homepage.mac.com/godders/yarra-pw/ > > Godfrey >
