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DaveC <me@privacy.net> wrote in
news:0001HW.BE331099002A9BD0F02845B0@news.individual.net: 

> 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,

Why dont you post a link to the pic and we can have a play with it.

Mick Brown
www.photo.net/photos/mlbrown