Photo Manipulation

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Manipulate your photos with PhotoPerfect via "Brighten Shadows"

Shadows
First move the shadow slider, but don't try to perform the whole brightening operation in one go. Move the slider carefully! If colored patches or pixels appear in the deepest shadows while you are moving this slider, you've already gone too far. Such areas are 'plugged up' and can only be brightened to a certain extent. They are pitch black and no amount of calculation can produce any further image content.

Intermediate areas
Then use the middle slider alternately with the shadow slider to achieve the best result. Where the shadow slider has already over-influenced the intermediate areas (with very 'hard' images), lower these areas using the middle slider. Observe finely structured areas - when these begin to become indistinct (individual structures merge), move the middle slider back up until the effect is no longer apparent.

Highlights
Usually, you do not need to use this slider to brighten shadows, but it may well be a help in reducing highlights. The same applies as with the middle slider: Observe finely structured areas and try to prevent these being overcompensated.

Contrast
When shadows are brightened considerably, contrast and fine structures tend to suffer to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the skill of the operator. After operations with the other sliders, you can use the contrast slider to retrieve them. Here, too: Observe carefully what happens, so that the mid-tones and highlights do not become too hard.While using the shadow and middle sliders, keep the next highest brightness area under observation to make sure that it doesn't 'blow out', i.e. become too featureless.


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