On 30 Nov 2005 at 16:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You should be able to do it with shadow/highlights as well. The highlight > won't > change if you move only the shadow slider. It's pretty much the same thing as > pegging the curve. Also, if you have it in RAW, you can increase overall > brightness without changing the highlight. In fact, you can increase low and > midrange brightness while decreasing the highlight value by moving the > exposure > slider to the left and moving the brightness slider to the right. You can open > up the darkest shadows at the same time by moving the shadow slider to the > left.
The shadows slider can turn blacks quite murky as there is compression going on there too, it's not a simple curve that's being applied. I was quite enamoured with the HL/SH tool when I first migrated to CS, I used it a lot but I'm a little more careful how I use it there days generally I'll try a complex curve first. You are correct though best results are always obtained by doing the majority of contrast control in the RAW convertor. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
