<table border="0" cellpadding="20px" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_7_7_61.html" title="Roll">Previous</a> | <a href="1_7_7_63.html" title="Sharpen">Next</a> | <a href="1_7_0_0.html">Applying Effects and Transitions</a> > <a href="1_7_7_0.html">Video effects included with Adobe Premiere Elements</a></div><h4 class="head2">Shadow/Highlight</h4><hr /><ol><p class="paragraph">Use the Shadow/Highlight effect to brighten shadowed subjects in an image or to reduce the highlights in an image. This effect does not apply a global darkening or lightening of an image, but rather it adjusts the shadows and highlights independently, based on the surrounding pixels. You can also adjust the overall contrast of an image. The default settings are optimized to fix images with backlighting problems.</p><p class="run-inhead">Auto Amounts</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies that Adobe Premiere Elements automatically analyzes and corrects highlight and shadow problems stemming from backlighting issues. This option is selected by default. Deselect it to activate manual controls for shadow and highlight correction.</p><p class="run-inhead">Shadow Amount</p><p class="paragraph">Lightens the shadows in the image. This control is active only if you deselect Auto Amounts.</p><p class="run-inhead">Highlight Amount</p><p class="paragraph">Darkens the highlights in the image. This control is active only if you deselect Auto Amounts.</p><p class="run-inhead">Temporal Smoothing</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the range of adjacent frames that Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes in order to determine the amount of correction needed for each frame, relative to its surrounding frames. For example, if you set Temporal Smoothing to 1 second, Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes the frames 1 second before the displayed frame to determine appropriate shadow and highlight adjustments. If you set Temporal Smoothing to 0, Adobe Premiere Elements analyzes each frame independently, without regard for surrounding frames. Temporal Smoothing can result in smoother-looking corrections over time. This control is active only if you select Auto Amounts.</p><p class="run-inhead">Scene Detect</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies that Adobe Premiere Elements ignores scene changes when you have enabled Temporal Smoothing. </p><p class="run-inhead">Blend with Original</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the percentage of the effect to apply to the image.</p><p class="paragraph">Expand the More Options category to reveal the following controls:</p><p class="run-inhead">Shadow Tonal Width and Highlight Tonal Width</p><p class="paragraph">Specify the range of adjustable tones in the shadows and highlights. Lower values restrict the adjustable range to only the darkest and lightest regions, respectively. Higher values expand the adjustable range. These controls are useful for isolating regions to adjust. For example, to lighten a dark area without affecting the midtones, set a low Shadow Tonal Width value so that when you adjust the Shadow Amount, you are lightening only the darkest areas of an image.</p><p class="run-inhead">Shadow Radius and Highlight Radius</p><p class="paragraph">Specify the size (in pixels) of the area around a pixel that the effect uses to determine whether the pixel resides in a shadow or a highlight. Generally, this value should roughly equal the size of the subject of interest in your footage.</p><p class="run-inhead">Color Correction</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the degree of color correction that the effect applies to the adjusted shadows and highlights. The higher the value, the more saturated the colors become. The more significant the correction that you make to the shadows and highlights, the greater the range of color correction available. </p><p class="note"><span class="bold">Note:</span> If you want to change the color over the whole image, use the Hue/Saturation effect after applying the Shadow/Highlight effect.</p><p class="run-inhead">Midtone Contrast</p><p class="paragraph">Specifies the degree of contrast that the effect applies to the midtones. Higher values increase the contrast in the midtones alone, while concurrently darkening the shadows and lightening the highlights.</p><p class="run-inhead">Black Clip and White Clip</p><p class="paragraph">Specify how much the effect clips the shadows and highlights to the new extreme shadow (level 0) and highlight (level 255) colors in the image. Larger values produce an image with greater contrast.</p></ol><hr /><div class="breadcrumbs"><a href="1_7_7_61.html" title="Roll">Previous</a> | <a href="1_7_7_63.html" title="Sharpen">Next</a> | <a href="#top">Top</a> | <a href="1_7_0_0.html">Applying Effects and Transitions</a> > <a href="1_7_7_0.html">Video effects included with Adobe Premiere Elements</a></div></td></tr></table>
