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Step Five:
If that red highlight shows over an area
you feel has important detail (her arm
and other areas here certainly seem
important to me), go to the Highlights
slider and drag it to the left until the red
areas disappear (here, I dragged the
Highlights slider to the left to -18). For
those of you upgrading from an earlier
version of Camera Raw, I kind of hesitate
to say this replaces the Recovery slider,
because there's more going on than just
that, due to the way Adobe reworked the
Exposure slider. Now when you adjust
the Exposure slider, there's less chance
of clipping than ever before, so it's kind
of like the Exposure slider has some built-
in Recovery power, too! That being said,
I still look to the Highlights slider to re-
cover clipped highlights first, and then
if that doesn't do the trick, I try lowering
the Exposure amount, but I rarely have
to do that.
TIP: The Color Warning Triangles
If you see a red, yellow, magenta, etc.,
color warning triangle (rather than white),
it's not great, but it's not nearly as bad
as white. It means you're clipping just that
one color channel (and there's still detail
in the other channels).
Step Six:
The next slider down, Shadows, is another
one you only use if there's a problem (just
like the Highlights slider), and in this case,
the problem is we can't see any detail in
the upper-left corner of the photo. We
can see that something's there, but we
can't see exactly what. That's when you
reach for the Shadows slider—drag it
to the right to brighten the shadows
(like I did here, where I dragged it over
to +87) and look how you can now see
the pottery in the background.
 
 
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