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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 correct the picture, |
| - | [* black] Adjusting midtone contrast |
| + | [* 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, adjust the shadows and highlights. |
| + | [* black] Adjusting midtone contrast increases or decreases 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 mid-tone contrast. |
| [* 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 (like the Nikon logo over the lens) may appear solid black; lightening shadows |
| + | [* black] The Lighten Shadows tool is used for lightening particularly dark spots. Spots that contain detail (like the Nikon logo over the lens) may appear solid black; lightening the shadows brings out the detail. |
| [* icon_reminder] Use this tool only in small doses, as black objects are usually considered "shadows" in a program, and they will be lightened as well. Overuse of this function may result in grainy spots. |