Design Center Tutorial
Adjust shadows and highlights in Photoshop Lightroom
Watch this short video tutorial to learn how you can adjust the highlights and shadows in an image while making sure you maintain critical detail. Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ offers a couple of tools that let you know how highlight and shadow adjustments will affect the image, including the Histogram and a clipping warning.
Duration: 3 minutes 18 seconds
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Where to go from here
For more information about Photoshop Lightroom, check out the following resources:
- Adjust an image’s tone with ease, by Matt Kloskowski
- Boost an image's saturation, by Martin Evening
- Convert color photos to black-and-white, by Matt Kloskowski
- Correct an overexposed image in Photoshop Lightroom, by Martin Evening
About the author
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is a speaker at trade shows and events around the world. He’s a co-host of the top rated video podcast Photoshop TV and has written six books on Photoshop and Illustrator including the Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic, Photoshop CS2 Savvy and Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips. Matt is featured on various training DVDs available from www.photoshopvideos.com and is a regular writer for Photoshop User magazine, Layers magazine, and is the Editor-in-chief of the Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter. He’s an instructor at Photoshop World and the Mac Live Conference and teaches basic and advanced Photoshop classes for Sessions.edu online school of design. Matt is also an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop as well as a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer.
Excerpted from “Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips,” a weekly videocast and website blog produced by Matt Kloskowski at the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). Copyright © 2007. Used with the permission of Matt Kloskowski. To see more, visit www.lightroomkillertips.com.
