Adobe 29180155 - Photoshop Elements 4.0 Tutorial page 203

Highlights Recovers detail in overexposed highlight areas of an image.
Shadows Recovers detail in underexposed shadow areas of an image.
Whites Adjusts the highlights in an image.
Blacks Adjusts the shadows and underexposed areas in an image.
Clarity Sharpens the clarity of edges in the image. This process helps restore detail and sharpness that tonal adjustments may reduce.
Vibrance Adjusts the saturation so that clipping is minimized as colors approach full saturation, changing the saturation of all lower-saturated
colors with less impact on the higher-saturated colors. Vibrance also prevents skin tones from becoming oversaturated.
Saturation Adjusts the color saturation of the image from –100 (pure monochrome) to +100 (double the saturation).
Fill Light Attempts to recover details from shadows, without brightening blacks. Camera Raw can reconstruct some details from areas in which
one or two color channels are clipped to black. Using Fill Light is similar to using the shadows portion of the Photoshop Shadow/Highlight filter or
the After Effects Shadow/Highlight effect.
Blacks Specifies which input levels are mapped to black in the final image. Increasing Blacks expands the areas that are mapped to black. This
sometimes creates the appearance of increased contrast in the image. The greatest change is in the shadows, with less change in the midtones
and highlights. Using the Blacks slider is similar to using the black point slider for input levels when using the Photoshop Levels command or the
After Effects Levels effect.
Brightness Adjusts the brightness of the image, much as the Exposure slider does. Brightness compresses the highlights and expands the
shadows when you move the slider to the right. Brightness does not clip image highlights (areas that are completely white, with no detail) or
shadows (areas that are completely black, with no detail). In general, use the Brightness slider to adjust the overall brightness after you set the
white and black clipping points with the Exposure and Shadow sliders.
Sharpening Sharpening enhances the definition of edges in an image. Additional controls are available in the Detail panel. To view the effects of
these controls, set the zoom level to 100% or greater.
Amount: Adjusts edge definition. Increase the Amount value to increase sharpening. A value of zero turns off sharpening. In
general, set Amount to a lower value for cleaner images. The adjustment locates pixels that differ from surrounding pixels
based on the threshold you specify and increases the pixels' contrast by the amount you specify.
Radius: Adjusts the size of the details that sharpening is applied to. Photos with fine details may need a lower radius setting.
Photos with larger details may be able to use a larger radius. Using too large a radius generally results in unnatural results.
Detail: Adjusts how much high-frequency information is sharpened in the image and how much the sharpening process
emphasizes edges. Lower settings primarily sharpen edges to remove blur. Higher values are useful for making the textures in
the image more pronounced.
Masking: Controls an edge mask. At a setting of zero, everything in the image receives the same amount of sharpening. At a
setting of 100, sharpening is mostly restricted to areas near the strongest edges.
Noise Reduction Adjusts the color saturation of the image from –100 (pure monochrome) to +100 (double the saturation).
Luminance: Adjusts grayscale noise.
Luminance Detail: Controls the luminance noise threshold. Useful for noisy photos. Higher values preserve more detail but can
produce noisier results. Lower values produce cleaner results but also remove some detail.
Luminance Contrast: Controls the luminance contrast. Useful for noisy photos. Higher values preserve contrast but can
produce noisy blotches or mottling. Lower values produce smoother results but can also have less contrast.
Color: Adjusts chroma noise.
Color Detail: Controls the color noise threshold. Higher values protect thin, detailed color edges but can result in color
specking. Lower values remove color speckles but can result in color bleeding.
Camera Profile Chooses the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) profile. For each camera model it supports, Camera Raw uses profiles to process raw
images. To choose from the various camera profiles present in Camera Calibration tab, choose either ACR 4.4, ACR 2.4, or Adobe Standard. The
higher version number represents the newer and improved camera profile for some cameras. You may want to choose the lower version number
for consistent behavior with legacy images.
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