From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

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Refining shadows and highlights

Refining shadows and highlights

From the course: Shooting and Processing Panoramas

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Refining shadows and highlights

- When you shoot a panoramic photo, chances are, you have a lot of shadows and a lot of highlights. And because you're covering such a wide range, it's very possible that you don't have an ideal exposure all the way through. Fortunately, Photoshop's shadow/highlight filter does a great job of allowing you to target both the shadowy regions and the highlights. Plus it can be run on a smart object, making it truly non-destructive. Let's talk about another way to fix shadows and highlights. When I open up an image here, what I'll first do is convert for smart filters. This allows filters to be applied in an editable way. However, it also means that some of the adjustment commands can be applied the same way. Normally these adjustments were destructive, but now that we've made this a smart filter, I can apply things like shadows and highlights. And what you see is, it allows us to aggressively go after the shadows and the highlights separately. The key though is to not look at this in a…

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