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[title] Shadows/Highlights
-[* black] Adjusting the light levels may not be enough to even out all the darks and lights in a picture. To further lighten up the picture, you can adjust the shadows and highlights.
+[* black] Adjusting the light levels may not be enough to even out all the darks and lights in a picture. To further correct the picture, you can adjust the shadows and highlights.
[* black] Adjusting midtone contrast will increase or decrease the difference between darks and lights in your photo. You can see in the first image that there is a greater difference between the two than before adjusting the contrast.
-[* black] Darkening highlights is useful for darkening particularly light spots in a picture without drawing too much attention to that spot in particular.
-[* black] The Lighten Shadows tool is used for lightening particularly dark spots. Spots that contain detail may appear solid black; lightening shadows can bring out the detail. Use this tool only in small doses, though, as black objects are usually considered "shadows" in a program, and they will be lightened as well.
+[* black] Darkening highlights is useful for darkening particularly light spots in a picture without having to select that specific area.
+[* black] The Lighten Shadows tool is used for lightening particularly dark spots. Spots that contain detail may appear solid black; lightening shadows can bring out the detail. Use this tool only in small doses, though, as black objects are usually considered "shadows" in a program, and they will be lightened as well. Over use of this function can also result in grainy spots.