It's rare to see a Phlearn Episode of length less than 10 minutes !!

After all these years, who knew there was a "show more options" for the Highlights and shadow adjustment. This is fantastic! Thank You!

I know nothing about photoshop. Sometimes I just need help adjusting a photo so I can paint it. I never know what I’m doing. I generally find KZfaq videos to be to quick and never explain anything. THANK YOU. I’m in a zoom meeting with my class, and trying to figure out how to edit this photo (per my teachers suggestion) so I can paint it for my in class assignment. I’ve watched some videos before this and literally almost gave up. I’m happy I didn’t or I wouldn’t have discovered your channel. Subscribed and happy about it!!! Thank you for a simple quick fix, and I am now get to painting so I won’t fall behind. I paint slow enough as it is.

I'm a big fan. I've learned so much by watching Aaron's tutorials. I would suggest creating a Smart Object (Filter - Convert for Smart Filter) BEFORE adding in your highlights and shadows. That way your not doing destructive editing.

It helps me a lot as a beginner in Photoshop. Thanks for your great sharing.

this was so helpful. I always wondered about the glowing rim around foreground subjects, but now I know it may just be the radius level. Thanks Aaron

Perfect and quick video (not superfluous at all) for helping me locate and better understand the shadow/highlight adjustments. Thanks man!

Thank you. Best Photoshop tutorials on the internet.

simple yet very effective video tip. thank you very much Aaron.

This video saved my printing life. THANK YOU!!!!

Awesome tip! Going to use it right now. Thanks!

This is fantastic and exactly what I needed. THANK YOU!

I like mixing this feature with some basic masking to remove that outer glow, as well as some low opacity and very soft strokes to certain areas of the photos that need them; such as a highlight that gets washed out or some type of circumstance similar to that. Overall, fantastic video!

Hey Aaron.... I loved this video..... Could ya make one dealing with the opposite effects? Too much white in the picture.

That was very helpful, thank you!

I thought this would be about the shadow behind him, but that's exactly the problem I always stumble on when doing that with curves and levels! So thanks a lot! :)

That looks like Fashion Santa that was at the Yorkdale Mall in Toronto !! BTW...a few ways you could do this, but I like that you introduce different parts of Photoshop ...they all may come in handy at some point !!

You are always the best Phlearn.. Can you do some episodes on how to change objects from 2d to 3d and apply image textures to it, please? Thank you and happy New Year

just applied to this a photo I was working on that needed it and it was major help! thank you!

I took a screenshot at 0:33 and tested this new method. After that, I tried to lighten the shadows in this image with a curves layer and applied an inverted "apply image" to the layer mask. In my opinion that looks even more realistic than in the video. My adjustments for the curves layer are Input: 100 Output: 140 Anna 17 years, Germany

Phlearn your always on point with info. I'm so happy I found your page! Thanks a million times!

Although I was aware of the feature, I enjoyed Aaron's smooth approach. The same tool is available in Lightroom as well, though with a limited options. I use it quite a lot - having a 14 bit .NEF RAW file really gives you a lot of details in the shadows, especially when you underexpose the image intentionally to get faster shutter speed, for example. Thanks again and keep those great videos coming.

Nice work Aaron

Hi Aaron, like this muc - as always ;-) Is there any advantage of this method over working with luminance masks?

I love all your videos! They're so educational! Thank you!

Excellent, thank you! I never knew about Shadows/Highlights! I will definitely be using this in the future!

Hi aaron ! thanks for that good tip ! I will use it on old photos I scanned

Hi Phlearnies, one question bothers me for quite a time now: How do I remove that tiny little hair on a (girls) forearm (in a photograph)? I heard about some duplicating the layer method (but I’m sure there’s a more Aronesc way to do it)… And the other thing is a little tip: every time I start to edit an image, I copy the basic layer and leave it invisible on top of all the other layers, so I can in an instant swap between before and after, without having to click alt/opt and selecting all the relevant layers anew when going back to editing. But most of all: thanks for all your valuable and entertaining tutorials, they helped me a lot and brightened more than one day ;-) Cheers Michael

Brillant demo Aaron. Thanks

Hey Aaron, I was wonder if you could do a video about splitting a big body of water like a sea? I have some photo ideas that need this look. Thanks in advance if you can help out.

Thanks again for the quick tip Phlearn, I really appreciate it. x

Wow. Nice tutorial! I have learned alot! Thanks

Great video! That takes me over the top on a few things which have been annoying me, mainly harsh shadows vs bright highlights.

Very nice and simple way!!!! There's another way to consider also ..... Use on top of the base-layer a curves adjustment layer ...... don't do anything to it just now .... first, add a mask and on the mask put the output from apply image ...... now inverse the mask and then adjust the curve-layer for the shadows only ...... easy and simple as well ......

you dont have to do a duplicate of the layer. you can convert it to a "smart object", this allows you to do this and you will be able to change the shadows whenever you want. this works with all the other filters. its great

Raw to the core.

great tutorial! thanks.

Amazing - you made it so simple :)

Hey Aaron I love your video tutorials, thanks.

adding that trick to my PS habits. Thanks

A suggestion for a new tutorial - removing a *complex* background. We see lots of tutorials where the background is green screen or blue sky or studio white, but never for what could be termed a 'real life' image. Your tutorials rock, younger students love them and are more than happy to watch them!

I usually do blend if with lvels, and it works fine, but I I completely forgot about this feature!!! thanks for the reminder :D

Oh I love it. Solve the problem for so many years to me. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for reminding me how to use it, plus I love your humor!

I love your video tutorials and the talent you possess. I use the Shadow/Highlights tool all the time, but I don't believe you showed the Curves tool properly. You can use Curves far more effectively than you showed. You didn't select multiple points and manipulate them as required.

Hi Phlearn.... Can we design a Brochure in Photoshop Or Indesign should be used for that ???? Thanks!!!!!!!! Reply!!!!!

Hi Aaron Is this better/worse than using the shadow adjustments in ACR ?

You just saved my life, Aaron. Thank you!

Short and sweet, well done !

your videos are amazing! They mean a lot to me!

Your tutorials are the best in youtube :) Thank you for these :)

Hey Aaron thx for the tutorial. When editing for fashion do you suggesting correcting tones and color before skin and garments or the other way around? Thx!

I would go for the camera raw highlights/shadows controls... is there any difference?

I think it's the 100th time you cover that :0 Yet you do it better each time

i love your tutorials guys :D is there btw some stuff on how to colorize black and white photos? it would be really interesting :)

Super cool trick.

great tut... love all the video's you do. love the shirt I got also...

How do I adjust Shadows and Highlights in video clips (as a global adjustment)? Thank you and great videos Aaron.

Hey Aaron, your videos are very helpful. Is there a way to do this across multiple images at once?

Thank for this information

why didn't you use 2-3 points on the Curves to only affect the shadow area?

Was there any particular reason for a redo episode? Amazing Trick to Recover Shadow Detail in Photoshop was released in 15.4.2014 :)

Thank You Aaron and you're Great and i have a question, how can i create pixie dust in photoshop, and what are the conditions of using these techniques like should having dark background

Who is this man? I need him in my life!!!

hi aaron i was watching ur video quite a while and it helped me a lot. im a begginer with no idea at all in editing in photo shop but the videos that uv made helped me a lot. just having a problem with the one im editing this time coz the back ground is so bright that the image is totally washed out do u have any video tutorial how to fix that kind of situation?

Good lesson, however, I am curious: Once a Shadows and Highlight adjustment is made, is that same tool still able to be edited after you make an adjustment? I seem to not be able to recall the tool and have it return showing my adjustments and therefore, my adjustments seem destructive to THAT layer. Is there any way to call up and change those edit without staring over?

i'hv been watching you're tutorials on almost regular basis & they're all awesome... can you please make tutorial on how to make awesome double exposure photos that would be great... :-) thank you..!

Thank you once again good sir! Always appreciated.

that was sooo helpful! Iv been doing it wrong all along!

tutorial starts at 2:38

How do you use the magnetic lasso ? Could it be a featuring episode ? Thx. Happy new year, from the dinos.... :D

I'm not sure if this is a stupid question, but I always felt more than a little confused with the distinction between the concepts of luminance, luminosity and lightness, and how that applies to photo editing and color grading. I looked it up online, but the information is scattered and you can't find it all together in one place. I got even more confused when I tried to think of that in combination with the different blend modes. Any valuable inputs on that? I really don't know who else to ask.

possibly stoopid question. why create a duplicate layer? what do you do with the 2 images afterwards?

Thanks for the very useful tip. In Lightroom develop module there are the hightlights/shadows and whites/blacks sliders that enhance any image. Youve shown the highlights/shadows adjustment in PS, but is there also a whites/blacks adjustment in PS?

Thanks for tutorial .. :)I just want want to ask about the pen you use.. what is model name of it?Thanks again

Thanks Aaron!

Besides, without pushing the buttons, just by using the default values after selecting the "shadow/highlight" option, the quality is already very fine to me. So does it really matter to further adjust the buttons beyond the given/default values ?

Hey PhlearnyAaron, any info about contests coming up?

Gracias Maestro

Super useful!

Just watched PAN with my 7 year old son. some of the scenery in that is awesome. I think that would be a playing field for Photoshop. Mad max is another one that would be awesome. If anyone could do a awesome job in that it would be you sire.

Hey Aaron - Is there a way to blend several landscape images together - same scene, but from many different times of day, and (importantly) blending the sky together so it isn't a hard transition? So the blend from an afternoon to evening to sunset sky has a smooth transition and not a hard or jarring transition of the different colours? Thanks!

Could you do a tutorial on how to make a low key portrait (from a normally lit photo)

hello i have a question? How do you resize a large picture using photoshop and shrink it so you can use it for profile picture on whatsapp.? without losing resolution....take care

I am new to taking pictures and I am looking for a good editing software? I have a Nikon D5000 and D7200 what editing software would you recommend to use. Thanks

Isn't it better to use camera raw or Lightroom for this so its non destructive?

Could you do a tutorial on fantasy lightning and fog or mist, please

Any advantages using shadows/highlights over camera raw? filter in photoshop?even on jpeg images?

Why are you guys not doing illustrator tutorials here in phlearn!! , I think it will be cool :)

Awesome............Thanks.

Thank you!

phlearn your tutorials are amazing so can you show us how to make asun rays

Thanks for your help

thanks it's a good way

Can you show the basic in Photoshop editing non destruktiv?

Aaron just curious but could you adjust your shadows up then use blend if to blend the highlights back to where they were or bring up shadows then mask out the highlights to the original?

Can you please do a tutorial on how to remove harsh shadows on a face?? If you could, that'd be so helpful!

Thanks AronI've been using Lightroom with average results, this works better for me

Hi Aaron, I messaged at the bottom of the video on the Phlearn site with a suggestion for an episode, not heard back and can't see my post, last thn i seen was saying it was being moderated. I also have another suggestion for which I have attempted a fix. It's where the end of a veil on a wedding dress is flowing in the wind and it's been cut out of the image altogether. To try and recreate the part of the veil thats chopped off and also the scene that it will flow into.....kinda :-)

Any advice on correcting B&W images that end up with super black/dense areas in print, but look fine on the screen? This typically happens when I dodge and burn into selected areas of the photo by hand. I found that by not doing too much in one area helps or to do the majority of the adjustment to the overall photo, but this isn't always the best result. I check the image by sliding the middle LEVELS pointer to lighten everything to see what is too dark (then I put it back). Just wondering if there's a better way to do this. Again, this is a print issue. Thanks!