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October 11, 2026
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Shadow-Highlights Legacy version

Is there any way to access a legacy version of Shadow Highlights? I recently upgraded to the latest CC from an old version of PS. I was able to use the old Shadow Highlights to do a general correction for a batch of concert or people photos before re-editing individually. It brought up the shadows and limited the highlights in a sensible way. The new SHH (and all the other light controls I have tried) are very crude — every correction seems drastic. The slightest tweak sends levels into the fake-looking stratosphere, and this over-sensitivity makes global corrections impossible. In general in PS, the corrections aren’t scaled correctly. If you want a big change in the image you should have to dial it up over 50% more or less, not tiny percentages hard to control.

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    Jeff Arola
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    Community Expert
    October 12, 2026

    What operating system are you using?

     

    You could try going to Edit>Preferences>Technology Previews (Windows) or Photoshop 2026>Settings>Technology Previews (Mac), uncheck Enable Modern User Interface, restart Photoshop and see if that makes any difference.

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