JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 56 Posted (5 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 1521 times:
CTL + ALT + ~ (tilde, that little sqully thing on the extreme left top corner of the keyboard)
This selects all the highlights in the image. You will see a selection of the highlights with the little dancing ants. Then do.. Select > Inverse (Shft + CTRL + I) now you can adjust the curves or levels of only the midtones and shadows without blowing out the highlights.
For extra bright highlights or to bring out detail in white areas try this.....
Ctrl + Alt + ~
Do a light feather of the selection and then Ctrl C to copy the selection and Ctrl V to paste to a new layer.
Now you can play with this new layer of just the highlights for image correction. You can change the mode to Multiply to darken or bring out details, do an adjustment layer of curves or levels to darken.
FlyingZacko From Germany, joined May 2005, 580 posts, RR: 8 Reply 4, posted (5 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 1456 times:
Jeff,
thanks a lot for this tip of the week. I really admire you doing this for the community.
However, I don't know about the other European users on here but I just tried it out and since the tilde is on the same key as the + all the shortcut does is zoom in. When trying Ctrl+Alt+ the key in the upper left nothing happens. I would appreciate any help from the European guys.
Cheers,
Sebastian
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