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You’ll probably leave the Limit Shadow Adjustments control turned on for most of your

projects, since this provides the most control over image contrast (and color, as you’ll

see later) in your programs.

You’ll find that contrast adjustments to the shadows are one of the most frequent

operations you’ll perform. Lowering the blacks so that at the darkest shadows touch 0

percent (seen in the bottom of the Waveform monitor’s graph or on the left of the

Histogram’s graph when either is set to Luma) deepens the shadows of your image.

Deeper shadows can enrich the image and accentuate detail that was being slightly

washed out before.

Lowering the blacks even more, called crushing the blacks because no pixel can be

darker then 0 percent, creates even higher-contrast looks. Crushing the blacks comes at

the expense of losing detail in the shadows, as larger portions of the image become

uniformly 0 percent black. This can be seen clearly in the black portion of the gradient

at the bottom of the image.

Note: Even if Limit Shadow Adjustments is turned on, you can still make lift

adjustments to the image using the Master Lift parameter in the Basic tab. See

“Master Contrast Controls” on page 204.

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