Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 User Manual page 136

Before adjusting shadows and highlights (top) and after (bottom). Adjusting softens the face and reveals more detail behind sunglasses.
See also
"To remove a color cast automatically" on page 135
"To correct color in Quick Fix" on page 121
To adjust shadows and brightness using Levels
Do one of the following in the Editor:
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Choose Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels.
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Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels, or open an existing Levels adjustment layer.
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Choose RGB from the Channel menu. When set to RGB, your adjustment affects all three (red, green, and blue)
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channels. If you are working on a grayscale image, it will have the gray channel only.
Set the shadow and highlight values by dragging the black and white Input Levels sliders (the left and right sliders
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directly under the histogram) to the edge of the first group of pixels on either end of the histogram. You can also
enter values directly into the first and third Input Levels text boxes.
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