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<blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 297483" data-attributes="member: 9240">I don't adjust by the histogram, but the histogram is the central part of the levels adjustments window, and as such I always adjust the left/shadow and right/highlight sliders as the first part of my Photoshop workflow, even if I have eyeballed exposure already in Lightroom.&nbsp; By setting these points correctly, all other light adjustments have greater impact.&nbsp; If I hadn't set the highlight endpoint first in the second photo in the video, any adjustments I made to highlights or the lighter portions of my photo would not necessarily do what I wanted them to do since I had about 50 points of dead air on the right of the histogram.&nbsp; I believe these are critical, if only to make the most of your tools, let alone make the most of your photos.&nbsp; So you know, clicking on the Auto button in ACR/LR will usually set the left and right points for you in the adjustments it makes, but it also does other work I'm not always fond of.&nbsp; I find this gives you the purest rendering of the image you took before you start with the real post-processing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BackdoorArts, post: 297483, member: 9240"] I don't adjust [B][I]by the histogram[/I][/B], but the histogram is the central part of the levels adjustments window, and as such I [I]always[/I] adjust the left/shadow and right/highlight sliders as the first part of my Photoshop workflow, even if I have eyeballed exposure already in Lightroom. By setting these points correctly, all other light adjustments have greater impact. If I hadn't set the highlight endpoint first in the second photo in the video, any adjustments I made to highlights or the lighter portions of my photo would not necessarily do what I wanted them to do since I had about 50 points of dead air on the right of the histogram. I believe these are critical, if only to make the most of your tools, let alone make the most of your photos. So you know, clicking on the [B]Auto[/B] button in ACR/LR will usually set the left and right points for you in the adjustments it makes, but it also does other work I'm not always fond of. I find this gives you the purest rendering of the image you took before you start with the real post-processing. [/QUOTE]

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