Shadow/Highlight Adjustment in CS

How is it possible to make such adjustment manually?

I tried to copy the image as an alpha channel. Then I inverted it and played with levels until there was more or less good difference between lights and darks. Then I made the alpha as selection and lightened the selection on the original image.

The result came out weird. Similar to the Adobe's filter and very different at the same time.

Adelson Anton wrote:

How is it possible to make such adjustment manually?

I tried to copy the image as an alpha channel. Then I inverted it and played with levels until there was more or less good difference between lights and darks. Then I made the alpha as selection and lightened the selection on the original image.

The result came out weird. Similar to the Adobe's filter and very different at the same time.

Prior to CS, I used "the claw". <ctrl><alt>~ will select the highlights in a progressive manner.

Since I was usually trying to pull up the shadows, I then inverted the selection.

It was usually useful to jump into Quick Mask mode and use levels or curves to adjust the mask to get exactly what I wanted.

Get out of Quick Mask.

Use curves to pull up the shadows to the level you want. For me that was usually until I saw detail in the key shadows.

Shadows and Highlights does much the same, but MUCH easier and faster.

Clyde

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 17:12:13 +0800, Adelson Anton
wrote:

How is it possible to make such adjustment manually?

Maybe try... Image/Adjustments/Shadow-Highlight

Or are you trying to do something different?

Drifter
"I've been here, I've been there..."

Drifter wrote:

Maybe try... Image/Adjustments/Shadow-Highlight

Or are you trying to do something different?

Hehe, I'm trying to do that - but manually.

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 04:26:14 +0800, Adelson Anton
wrote:

Drifter wrote:

Maybe try... Image/Adjustments/Shadow-Highlight

Or are you trying to do something different?

Hehe, I'm trying to do that - but manually.

I still don't understand, that IS a manual adjustment (you move the sliders)

Drifter
"I've been here, I've been there..."

Drifter wrote:

I still don't understand, that IS a manual adjustment (you move the sliders)

Ok, I'll rephrase then. How do I do the same in PS7? Without installing any 3rd party plugins.

"Drifter" wrote in message

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 04:26:14 +0800, Adelson Anton
wrote:

Drifter wrote:

Maybe try... Image/Adjustments/Shadow-Highlight

Or are you trying to do something different?

Hehe, I'm trying to do that - but manually.

I still don't understand, that IS a manual adjustment (you move the sliders)

Drifter
"I've been here, I've been there..."

I think he is asking how it might have been done before CS and "shadow/highlight". And of course, there is no "one" answer. A general answer would be "different selection techniques and curves adjustment layers, etc. Used to be you had to head to Channels for most of this kind of work.

John