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Hello, @jamesstaddon! Thank you for your answer to my questions. I just wanted to add that I don’t have shadows, midtones, and whites sliders in Corel Aftershot Pro like you do in Lightroom. How you lowered the highlights in the katydid side view photo then increased the whites and shadows was so perfect! But, unfortunately I don’t have that access. What should I do? Are there any one-time payment software programs like Lightroom that you can adjust shadows, midtones, highlights, blacks, and whites?
The screenshots are very helpful! Thank you! And thank you for reminding me what a katydid is. 🙂
I did some looking into the adjustments and think I have some answers for you! In Corel, Shadows are called “Fill Light.” And to adjust Whites, I think you click “AutoLevel” and then adjust one of those two fields to set the white point (the other field would be to set the black point, I think).
You will notice that you do have an extra slider called “HL Range” (“Highlights Range”?) that I’m not sure what does, but might be extremely amazing if it would help you increase/decrease the range of highlights that the “Highlights” slider is adjusting.
Also, notice that the only “extra” slider in the “Exposure” panel is “Fill Range”. That is probably the counterpart of “HL Range”. It could be super helpful too!
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Wow! Thank you so much for clarifying all that!
I never used AutoLevel before because it always looked unnatural when I selected it. Now I know how to adjust those levels. 🙂 (The left one is for Shadow Clip Percentage, the right for Highlight Clip Percentage).
And yes, the HL Range slider is used for adjusting the range of highlights! I find that useful for toning down glaring whites, but other than that, I don’t know how to use those two sliders.
I look forward to your editing class, so I can better use all the editing options I have in Aftershot Pro I didn’t realize I had!
I will definitely stick with AfterShot. Thanks for saving me a lot of money!
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