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Drag the Highlights slider up to bring back the details of an area that's too bright. Click OK to apply the settings. Tip: Select Show More Options to see additional settings to fine-tune the adjustment. Tip: Save your image as a PSD or TIFF file so you can adjust the Shadows/Highlights settings later.

How to Quickly and Easily Remove Harsh Highlights in PhotoshopOpen up your shot with the highlight issue.Create a new levels adjust layer.Rename it 'Reduced Highlights'.Change the adjustment layer blend mode to 'Multiply' (you can also do this at the time of the adjustment layers name input in step 3).More items...?May 24, 2016

Choose Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Shadow/Highlights. Drag any of the adjustment sliders or enter values in the text boxes, then click OK. Brightens the dark areas of your photo and reveals more of the shadow detail that was captured in your image.

Correct overexposed areas of a photoDrag the Highlights slider up to bring back the details of an area that's too bright. Click OK to apply the settings. Tip: Select Show More Options to see additional settings to fine-tune the adjustment.

What you see in the window that appears is called a Histogram. This histogram tells you how the pixels of the image fall into the tonal range of the photo, i.e. how many shadows, midtones, and highlights. The Curves adjustment in Photoshop allows you to adjust points throughout an image's tonal range.

Levels. Levels modify the tonal values in an image by adjusting the levels of the shadows, midtones, and highlights. It's one of the most used tools in the adjustment layer panel, and using just a touch of levels will go a long way in correcting your images.

Highlight, midtone, and shadows are terms that describe the tonal values of different areas in an image. Highlights consist of the brightest areas, shadows consist of the darkest, and midtones lie in between the two.