Shadow-Highlight 1.0

Lyric's free Shadow-Highlight plugin filter provides functionality similar to the Highlight/Shadow function in Photoshop CS, revealing detail in under or overexposed footage by lifting shadows or reducing highlights. In the following before-and-after example, details in both the shadows and the highlights have been recovered.<br /><br />The filter is particularly useful for correcting footage shot with the film-like gamma settings common on the current crop of camcorders, such as Cinematone gamma on the Sony HVR-Z1U HD camera, which was used for the above shot.<br /><br />The control panel for the filter is shown at left. Shadow Lift determines the amount of shadow area lightening. Shadow Range controls the range of shadows lifted, set it low for lifting only the darkest areas or high to lift more of the image. Highlight Drop and Highlight Range work in a similar way for the highlight areas, setting the range of highlights to affect and the amount of highlight easing. The default settings apply a moderate shadow lift and no highlight drop.<br /><br />Often, lifting shadows will reduce apparent saturation and contrast, so standard Saturation and Contrast adjustment controls are provided for compensating these effects.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Mac, Mac OSX
Keyword:	Amount,  Areas,  Controls,  Darkest,  Determines,  Filter,  Footage,  Gamma,  Highlight,  Highlights,  Lifting,  Range,  Setting,  Settings,  Shadow,  Shadows,  Similar
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