Lightroom Secret Shadow Slider Trick

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MartinCornwall

Senior Member
Thanks for the heads up on this. I am only using Lightroom 3 so I only have Fill Light available. It could be useful when I upgrade to Lightroom 6 after the long wait. Hopefully it's out March 9th according to the rumour mill :)
 
Horoscope Fish

Horoscope Fish

Senior Member
I'll just point out that those of us who use Adobe Camera RAW/Photoshop can also take advantage of this handy tip...

The required adjustment menu can be found under the "Camera Calibration" tab in ACR:
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J-see

Senior Member
Can't you do the same by upping the shadows in the exposure part and then pull them up further in the curves section of LR?

I used gradients and brushes doing something similar with highlights since you can keep stacking them.
 
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wornish

Senior Member
J-see said:
Can't you do the same by upping the shadows in the exposure part and then pull them up further in the curves section of LR?

I used gradients and brushes doing something similar with highlights since you can keep stacking them.
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Just tried it and the answer is almost the same as using the 2010 process but not quite as powerful even if you have Basic shadows at 100% and Tone Curve shadows at 100%.
And of course you can use the adjustment brush and stack layers of increased exposure with no limit - until its all blown out white.

But I think the intent is to simply recover a shadow area beyond what the 2012 process version can do in a very simple way especially if you save the setting as a user preset you can see if its worth doing in one click.
 
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J-see

Senior Member
wornish said:
Just tried it and the answer is almost the same as using the 2010 process but not quite as powerful even if you have Basic shadows at 100% and Tone Curve shadows at 100%.
And of course you can use the adjustment brush and stack layers of increased exposure with no limit - until its all blown out white.

But I think the intent is to simply recover a shadow area beyond what the 2012 process version can do in a very simple way especially if you save the setting as a user preset you can see if its worth doing in one click.
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I never tried it with shadows but with night shots when I had light pollution in my sky, I used to stack gradients killing the highlights.

Still, it's an easy trick they show in the video. I didn't even know I could go back to previous version.
 
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