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Realise the full potential of your images using Shadows/Highlights and colour luminosity control to faithfully enhance detail and colours in the scene

Realise the full potential of your images using Photoshop’s Shadows/ Highlights and Colour Luminosity controls to faithfully enhance detail and colours in your scenes. Plus: avoid image noise when you apply Luminosity.

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Landscape photography is all about capturing detail and adding drama. Using the right camera settings and filters at the shooting stage will get you most of the way to where you want your images to be – but for the final polish, some image-editing is essential.

If you shoot with your camera’s raw image format, you may be wondering

why you’d ever need to use Shadows/ Highlights in Photoshop. You’re not working on raw image data when you use Photoshop, but the Shadows/Highlights controls in Photoshop provide a great deal more control than the single slider each for Shadows and Highlights you get in the raw converters Adobe Camera Raw and Lightroom. The most important thing to keep in mind with the techniques I’ll be covering here is that they can actually reduce image quality quite seriously if you push them too far. To avoid the introduction of image noise, artifacts and other problems you’ll take an organic approach that will avoid the risk of over-processing, enhancing rather than transforming your image.