Adjusting Shadow and Highlight

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The image is now looking good because you have adjusted its contrast and eliminated the color cast, but the highlights could be a little stronger and shadows could have more detail.

Follow these steps:

1. In the Layers palette, target the Background. Choose Image/Adjustments ’ Shadow/ Highlight. A dialog box appears (see Figure H5.9).

   
   Figure H5.9: The Shadow/Highlight dialog box

2. Set the Shadows to the following settings ”Amount: 54%, Tonal Width: 48%, Radius: 35 px. Set the Highlights to Amount: 0%, Tonal Width: 52%, and Radius: 30 px. Adjust the color correction slider to “25 and the Midtone Contrast slider to 0. Click OK.