Shadow/Highlight Behavior

[Wolfman]

I was wondering if anybody has had this problem and is there a solution? Sometime, but not always when I use the shadow slider in Shadow/Highlight in PSCS5 it does the opposite(reduces highlights) before it starts to open up the shadows. This can be pretty annoying.
Help would be appreciated......Eric Chan, Jeff Schewe anybody

[madmanchan]

Do you have an example that you can use to illustrate this?

[pfigen]

Try setting the black and white threshold values to 0.00 for both and see if that doesn't help.

[Wolfman]

Try setting the black and white threshold values to 0.00 for both and see if that doesn't help.

Thank you so much for the tip...... that seems to have worked.

[Wolfman]

Do you have an example that you can use to illustrate this?

Thanks for responding Eric..... changing the black & white clip values to 0 seems to have worked. What was happening when I was sliding the shadow slider to open shadows it would first reduce highlights and I would have to keep sliding further until it would finally start to open shadows but the highlight reduction already took effect and stayed as part of the equation.

[pfigen]

Wolfman - You also want to watch the Color Correction slider - it's really a Saturation control and the default setting of +20 is almost always too much. I set it back to zero, along with the zero point threshold settings, set an approximate shadow setting and save it off as a new default. It's a much closer starting point than what come from Adobe.