Re: Need Shadow/Highlight Control Plugin for CS2 in Form of Graphics Equalizer

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From: Paul Furman
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:13

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John Sheehy wrote:
> me@mine.net wrote in news:uqck84197nvhra5m55unhmb4pmion1o279@4ax.com:
> 
>> What's wrong either using curves and/or levels?
> 
> They don't do anything at all for local contrast.
> 
> For example, in the highlights you might want to just pull down the darker 
> areas, and in the shadows, pull up the brighter areas.

You can do that with curves by adding more control points and making odd 
shapes as needed. The advantage of curves is you see the structure of 
what's being changed: you can see if the shadows are raised & highlights 
lowered, the midtones lose contrast (become more horizontal). Using 
masks as 'user' describes is something different. That sounds like it 
could be a handy tool though it's not hard to make quick masks with a 
big soft eraser on curves adjustment layers... more control that way.

Curves are awkward though, I'll grant that. One thing that helps is 
dragging the cursor over the image with the control key held down, you 
see that tone on the curve. I generally set the adjustment layer's 
properties to luminosity so it doesn't effect saturation... at a 
saturation layer separately if that's desired.

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Paul Furman
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