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Lightroom: Positive Highlights - Does anybody use them?
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<blockquote data-quote="paul_b" data-source="post: 589209" data-attributes="member: 15676"><p>After asking a similar question about positive highlights on the Adobe forum I was advised by most that the best practice is to match the value that you give to shadows with that of highlights, but shadows being positive and highlights being negative, ie +30 shadows with -30 highlights etc. Apparently using both together increases mid-tone contrast. Also, I suspect adjusting shadows and highlights always effects just the tones mapped in the areas of the unadjusted image (before any post processing (inc exposure work)) and can therefore hit the wrong pixels that you want to target if your image is under or over exposed. Therefore using shadows and highlights balanced together keeps the original histogram balanced, ie not distorted in unintended areas. I of course could be wrong.</p><p></p><p>Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paul_b, post: 589209, member: 15676"] After asking a similar question about positive highlights on the Adobe forum I was advised by most that the best practice is to match the value that you give to shadows with that of highlights, but shadows being positive and highlights being negative, ie +30 shadows with -30 highlights etc. Apparently using both together increases mid-tone contrast. Also, I suspect adjusting shadows and highlights always effects just the tones mapped in the areas of the unadjusted image (before any post processing (inc exposure work)) and can therefore hit the wrong pixels that you want to target if your image is under or over exposed. Therefore using shadows and highlights balanced together keeps the original histogram balanced, ie not distorted in unintended areas. I of course could be wrong. Sent from my XT1562 using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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