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Before there is the shadow/highlight tool, I set black/white points and make color corrections with curves, etc. Now I find the s/h tool can do a lot of the work, but not consistently on all images. Here is an example.
In two quite different images A and B, I Alt-drag the Level slider to locate the darkest shadow points and set the Color Samplers. They both happen to have rgb values close to 18/18/20. After running the s/h tool with its default settings, image A’s Sampler values drop to 5/5/6, and image B’s Sampler values jump to 60/60/65.
In image A, the s/h tool not only bring out lots of shadow details, but dropping the Sampler values to 5/5/6 also sets a good black point to result in great contrast. I only need to tweak the default settings a bit to finish the job.
In image B, the s/h tool also brings out lots of shadow detail, but fails to set a good black point and results in a washed out look. No amount of tweaking of default settings will bring the Sampler values below 18/18/20. In situations like this, I have to go back to my old way of correction.
Why would the s/h tool behave so differently on these two images? Is there a way to force the tool to nail down the desired black/white points and still make shadow/highlight adjustments? A related question is how do others use this tool in their workflow. Thanks.
In two quite different images A and B, I Alt-drag the Level slider to locate the darkest shadow points and set the Color Samplers. They both happen to have rgb values close to 18/18/20. After running the s/h tool with its default settings, image A’s Sampler values drop to 5/5/6, and image B’s Sampler values jump to 60/60/65.
In image A, the s/h tool not only bring out lots of shadow details, but dropping the Sampler values to 5/5/6 also sets a good black point to result in great contrast. I only need to tweak the default settings a bit to finish the job.
In image B, the s/h tool also brings out lots of shadow detail, but fails to set a good black point and results in a washed out look. No amount of tweaking of default settings will bring the Sampler values below 18/18/20. In situations like this, I have to go back to my old way of correction.
Why would the s/h tool behave so differently on these two images? Is there a way to force the tool to nail down the desired black/white points and still make shadow/highlight adjustments? A related question is how do others use this tool in their workflow. Thanks.
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