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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: mbalensiefer on July 30, 2008, 05:27:18 am

Title: Fill Flash in CS3
Post by: mbalensiefer on July 30, 2008, 05:27:18 am

Is there a fill-flash equivalent--such as what is present in Elements 1.0 and 2.0--in Photoshop CS3?

In Elements 2.0 it was located under Enhance, Adjust Lighting, Fill Flash.

Title: Fill Flash in CS3
Post by: Ken Bennett on July 30, 2008, 07:08:52 am

Try Image > Adjustment > Shadow/Highlight.

The default value of 50 in the Shadow slider is wildly high. I try to keep it under 10.

That said, it is *much* better to do this adjustment using the Fill Light slider in the Camera RAW processor.

Title: Fill Flash in CS3
Post by: mbalensiefer on July 30, 2008, 11:54:06 pm

Thank you!!

 I am however working with .jpeg scanned images...thus, there is no Fill Light slider under RAW (or is there?) to be found!
 So--is there a way that I can still proceed in the spirit of your below?

V/R
Michael

Title: Fill Flash in CS3
Post by: Ken Bennett on July 31, 2008, 11:11:42 am

These are two separate things. So,

1. For scanned JPEG files, use the Image>Adjustment>Shadow/Highlight tool. Works pretty well, and it's the quickest and easiest solution.

2. If you are doing the scanning, you can get better control over your scans, but it takes more work. Do your scans at the highest quality and save them as 16-bit TIFF files. Then use Bridge to open those TIFF files using the Camera RAW interface. (File>Open in Camera RAW)

You will find that you have more "headroom" to work with exposure, fill light, etc., using a 16-bit tiff file.

Title: Fill Flash in CS3
Post by: mbalensiefer on July 31, 2008, 10:14:31 pm

Thank you, Mr. Bennett!

Title: Fill Flash in CS3
Post by: Chris_T on August 05, 2008, 09:25:50 am

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Is there a fill-flash equivalent--such as what is present in Elements 1.0 and 2.0--in Photoshop CS3?

In Elements 2.0 it was located under Enhance, Adjust Lighting, Fill Flash.
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In CS3, you can open jpeg, tiff, etc. files with File|Open As|Camera Raw, and all the ACR functions, including Fill Flash, are available to you. When ACR first came out, I asked why that was not possible and got no response. Now CS3 finally makes it possible.