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Boost the shadows, midtones and highlights of a photo to reveal more detail and improve the contrast

On the previous pages we demonstrated how to remove a warm colour cast from our raw starting image (ty_elements29.dng) to create more natural-looking skin tones. It's worth working through that lesson first because it feeds directly into this one. When you adjust the colour balance of an image using tools such as the White Balance tool, you can alter its exposure, which is why it makes sense to remove colour casts before overcoming any exposurerelated problems that the shot already suffers from. It can be a challenge to capture a shot with detail in the shadows, midtones and highlights, especially when shooting a high-contrast scene. You may end up with over-exposed (or clipped) areas that feature no texture or detail (such as the sun-lit leaves in this image). We'll show…

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