Photoshop Shadow & Highlight Settings Tutorial

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Incorporated, and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. Hi guys, on this Photoshop tutorial I'm going to touch base on the shadow and highlights tool in Photoshop CS3. Now, if you go down to your adjustments, there's a whole bunch of different things you can do. But one of them is shadow and highlight, and this is - the name says it all. So you click shadow and highlights, automatically you've already seen a difference. If you didn't see what just went on, just take a look up here at my bricks in the top of my chapel that I took this picture. Of the picture I took. The bricks are completely dark, but as soon as I opened up the shadow and highlights dialogue, they brightened up for me. And it also gives the picture kind of a cartoony kind of look. Especially when you start boosting the highlights, it starts to kind of take on this pastel-ish kind of look and then also the shadows. You can boost the shadows to make the darks a lot brighter than what they usually are, or you can just bring it down if you like. If you don't want so much in the ways, because this is going to bring noise, guys. Anything that you do in Photoshop to enhance the image quality, more than likely is going to bring noise, especially in the darker areas, unless you're shooting with like a camera, say for instance the Nikon D3, which is almost noiseless, especially at high ISOs. It's hard to even tell that there's noise, even in the dark shadow areas. But if you don't have five-thousand dollars to spend on a camera, more than likely your camera is going to have the noise issue. But as you can see, the shadow and highlights tool is really, really awesome. I mean, this just helps out images so much more, because it actually brings the detail out in sections that it's hard to correctly get exposure for. And as you can see the difference, I mean it totally just changes the image one-hundred percent. And it brings out, even in the clouds as you can tell, there's just so much more detail. And I love this effect for so many different reasons, and like I said, use this wisely guys, and try not to overdo it, because you will bring noise and bring down the image quality. So if you're willing to sacrifice, say for instance, a little bit of noise, you can get a cool effect with this shadow and highlights tool. But that's the basic on this, and there are not too many options and too many sub-options with this tool, so it's pretty easy to use and anybody can do it."