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Reducing contrast with Shadows/Highlights

Reducing contrast with Shadows/Highlights - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Reducing contrast with Shadows/Highlights

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to use the Shadows/Highlights command, to correct, or at least make better, an image that has far too much contrast. So in my case, I have this pretty low quality image here, that features this back-lit barracuda, and so the barracuda's body is exhibiting these very, very dark shadows, and it's set against these overly sharp highlights in the background. And so, here inside the Histogram panel, I'm going to change that Channel setting to Luminosity, and notice, if I go ahead and update the histogram, that we have a very spiky histogram indeed, with an awful lot of shadows running against the left-hand side of the graph, and a ton of highlights running into the right side of the graph, and then we have this big dip in the midtones. And that is the sign of a hot, high-contrast image. And so one thing we could do is bring up the Adjustments panel by clicking on that black and white circle, and then, Alt + click or Option + click on the…

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