M_Shadows and Highlights by Morgantao

Congratulations for this filter. It is very well done. I really could not believe it when you posted the first example you have shown in this thread --> Romancing the Gorilla by Carl

I like much how is done, and is simple, effective and fast and very good result can be had easily.

Here is an example

This the original source



and here is the SAME one after Morgantao´s Shadow and Highlight adjustment.



As you can see it keeps very well the whites and greys untouched while raising the shadows very well.

Nice Morgan

Glad you like it guys
I'm looking for a way to adjust the midtones, as SpaceRay mentioned is possible in Photoshop.
So far what I've found is either way too complex, or doesn't work very well, or mostly the combination of both... But I'm still on it

I have seen that you have included the Level and Hue and saturation components but have not given any control over these ones, so:

Is there a reason why this does not have controls at least for saturation and black and white point?

Would be bad in some way or could modify the result if you add this settings to the filter ?

As these are masked it would only affect to the area that the controls are put and not to the whole image

You know much better than me about this, and that is why I am asking.

I am not really suggesting that you put them in your filter, I am asking why you did not include them.

Thanks very much

Thanks for your answer. I knew there was a reason to it so this is why I asked, and good to know why you have done it this way.

I will try and see what happens if you add more controls and if this would be helpful or useful or not and will tell you.

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Mardar wrote: WOW Morgan. This is a real quick way to brighten and adjust shadows and highlights without dragging out the big programs to do this function. Super filter.

I totally agree with you Mardar, this is even better than the tools of the others programs because with this filter is done INSTANTLY AND AUTOMATIC, and in the others you must always take some time to move the sliders to get a possible result, and in this one you can SEE it very quick, although the problem comes when you want to render it as FF is slow and is not applied the result quick as in the others tools, but anyway this filter is fast enough as takes less than 30 seconds on a 4500x3500 photo.

This makes a great work although I think that would be good to have more controls for saturation, contrast and color balance to make it even better.

I have intentionally made a photo MUCH darker and adjusted low the light levels, and this filter did not have any problem to bring them back to normal and without affecting or modifying any part of the image in a bad way, it gets it very well.

I have used to make this image above the great and awesome filter Cubes by Inujima



And here is the modified version made with this filter. As you can see in this one gives probably a little too much saturation, but this is easy to correct later.

I have uploaded an advanced version of this filter, with 3 additional controls.
The new version will allow you to control the tone and saturation of the image.

I have decided to keep this version as is, and upload the advanced version as a seperate filter, since this version is super simple and less complex.