520 Complete Digital Photography, 6E Applied Editing Techniques With the adjustment tools, layering features, and masking capabilities that you've learned about, there are a number of other edits that you can pull off. In this section, we're going to mix and match some of the techniques you've learned about in order to solve some different types of problems. These are not everyday adjustments and problems, but you might occa- sionally need to tackle a situation like what you'll find in this section. Adaptive Shadow/Highlight Correction Adaptive correction tools automatically figure out which pixels in your image are shadows and which are highlights, and then brighten or darken just those areas. As you saw, Photoshop Camera Raw and Lightroom provide a Fill Light slider that lets you automatically brighten shadows and darken highlights. But you'll find a similar tool in other applications. Photoshop has a control called Shadow/Highlight adjustment; Aperture's equivalent is called Highlights and Shadows, while Capture NX's tool is called D-Lighting. Shadows/Highlight in Photoshop CS2 and later. To invoke the Shadow/Highlight tool, choose Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlights. By default, the Shadows/ Highlights dialog box opens with a Shadows amount of 50, so you will see an immedi- ate brightening of the shadows in your image. Move the Shadows slider to the desired setting (see Figure 20.18).