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ADDING SOME VISUAL PUNCH WITH THE CLARITY SLIDER By lowering the adjustment (moving the slider to the left), you increase the middle tones by making dark areas lighter and light areas darker. A contrast increase means that you will have an increase in the middle tones of the image, making them either darker or lighter. The Contrast slider is set to 25 by default, and moving it to the right will increase contrast in your image. It might be necessary to go back and make some minor adjustments to the other tonal sliders after adjusting the Brightness slider. The best way to use this slider is to first make your other tonal adjustments (Exposure, Recovery, Fill Light, and Blacks) and then adjust the Brightness slider as needed. The difference is that the Exposure slider can clip the highlights or shadows, but when you move the Brightness slider to the right, it compresses the tones in the brightest parts while expanding the shadows. The Brightness slider is a lot like the Exposure slider in that it can make the image look darker or brighter. The Blacks slider does not have much effect on the middle or brightest tones in the image. The higher the number, the darker your shadows will appear. When you increase the black level, you are setting a new point for which tones will appear black in the image. Second, it adds some saturation to colors. First, it adds a little contrast to the image by raising the blackest part of the image. That’s why the Blacks slider has a default setting of 5. Better-looking blacksĪs indicated earlier, raw images have no adjustments coming out of the camera, but they all need some corrections to make them look better. The slider can be adjusted to a setting of 100, but it usually isn’t necessary to go more than 20 points to fix most problems. Moving this slider to the right will lighten the darkest parts of your image without affecting the highlights.

If you have the opposite problem of too many dark areas with no detail, you can try using the Fill Light slider. SEEING IN THE SHADOWS WITH THE FILL LIGHT SLIDER You can quickly turn on the over- and underexposure warning overlays on your image by pressing the O key for over and the U key for under. You can continue moving the Recovery slider to the right until the warning disappears.Īn easier way to do this is to click the highlight warning triangle and then move the Recovery slider to the right until the red overlay on the image disappears. The best way to use this tool is to watch the highlight clipping warning in the histogram. As you move the Recovery slider to the right, the brightest parts of the photo will get darker and darker. The Recovery slider is an amazing tool for fixing those areas in your photo that are too bright without having to make the rest of the image darker. Saving your highlights with the recovery tool If you have the sun in your shot, no amount of image adjustment will get rid of the clipping warning, so decide just how much effort you need to apply to fixing the problem. That is, there might be areas in your image that contain some clipping but do not need to be corrected. Remember that sometimes black is black and white is white.