Re: Problematic highlights in jpg image

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From: paul
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 23:37

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An 'S' shaped curve will preserve the highlights and increase contrast 
in the middle ranges. Use a soft eraser on this curve adjustment layer 
if you need to recover highlights more.

DaveC wrote:

> I've been given a color jpg image of 475 KB to print. It is a portrait, taken 
> with a FjuiFilm S5000 digital camera in flash mode, indoors, with a dark 
> background but with some bright incandescent ceiling lamps. The image is 960 
> x 1280 and has an sRGB color space. 
> 
> The image seems quite flat. Whenever I attempt to increase brightness or 
> contrast, several areas of highlight immediately "solarize" (saturate?). 
> These seem to be broad areas that reflect the light (a broad forehead, for 
> example). 
> 
> I thought it might be possible to select these areas that are 
> nearly-saturated, invert the selection, and increase brightness and contrast 
> in those areas only. 
> 
> The only type of selection like this I see is Color Range. I tried this, but 
> I don't think this will work for me. Is it possible to select areas of the 
> image that are brightest? 
> 
> Or is there an easier trail I should be going down?
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Photoshop CS 8.0, Mac OS X 10.3.8
> 
> Thanks,

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