Not something I think I've ever done either.
Sorry I should of been clearer. I meant selecting the camera neutral profile in Lightroom when editing the Raw.I'm typically using neutral on the camera profile. That shouldn't be affecting the RAW file at all, only the JPG preview that gets embedded in the RAW.
Highlights refer to a specific portion of the luminosity spectrum on an image, same as Shadows, Whites, and Blacks. Have you ever noticed when you mouse over each of those sliders (as well as the Exposure slider) that a portion of the Histogram window is highlighted? This is the area that the slider concentrates on (White is actually to the right of Highlights). So when working solely in Lightroom the combination of the first 4 sliders mentioned it's possible to create strong contrast curves using those 4 sliders.
So the answer is, "Absolutely", when asked if I've gone positive on the slider, but generally only when I'm not moving on to some other editor like Photoshop. When treating it as a Camera RAW front end I generally will not unless there's a lot of recovery required on the original image.
Interesting, tyI do when I am processing a black and white image, sometimes it helps the image "pop" more than when you use the "White" slider
Interesting. Which camera calibration profile do you use? Adobe Standard?In most of my photos I have the highlights above +20. A lot of people worry about losing detail, but I just care about making the picture look good to me.
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In most of my photos I have the highlights above +20. A lot of people worry about losing detail, but I just care about making the picture look good to me.
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I do when I am processing a black and white image, sometimes it helps the image "pop" more than when you use the "White" slider
Interesting. Which camera calibration profile do you use? Adobe Standard?
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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.Yeah, I'm using Adobe Standard if I remember correctly
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