Learn how to bring out detail lost in the shadows or to reduce your highlights.

1. Open a photo containing shadow or highlight areas that need adjusting.

2. Go under the Image menu, under Adjustments, and choose Shadow/Highlight.

3. When the Shadow/Highlight dialog appears, by default the shadow areas are lightened by 50%. You can increase the amount for additional lightening, or you can decrease the amount if the shadows appear too light. (We’re adjusting shadows in this image, but if you were adjusting highlights, you’d increase the Highlights Amount to decrease the highlights in the photo.)

4. In this example, the 50% default setting for shadows wasn’t quite enough, so I dragged the Shadows Amount slider to the right to open up the shadow areas even more. When you click OK, your shadow lightening correction is applied to your photo.