highlight shadow tool not working in photoshop 2018 cc

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November 5, 2017
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when i activate the tool and try to lighten the shadows, it lightens the highlights. when i click on highlights, it lightens the highlights as well. it seems to me that the tool is not working at all.

are other people having this difficulty?

judy

highlight shadow tool

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Correct answer davescm

......................... this is not supposed to happen and did not happen before the latest update.

Hi

I don't use Highlights and shadows I much prefer curves. However, I just tried the tool in CC2018 (vr.190), CC2017 and CS6 with the results below. I used an image which I deliberately brought down the highlights in camera raw to test the effect.

CC2018 before :

CC2018 after :

CC2017 before:

CC2017 after

CS6 before :

CS6 after :

The impact of shadows on the highlights looks the same in all versions - nothing has changed.

Dave

D Fosse

Community Expert

Note, everybody, that "show more options" lets you set tonal range and radius as well. If these are set differently between versions, you'll get very different results. Tonal range cranked all the way up will lift the whole image.

S

saw_mill_photographerAuthor

Known Participant

i believe that the highlight shadow tool does not work correctly in photoshop 2018. it has nothing to do with preferences. take any photo in which on the histogram the white point does not go the farthest to the right and use the highlight shadow tool to open up the shadows. the tool will open up the shadows, but also pull the white point all the way to the right. this is not supposed to happen and did not happen before the latest update.