poita said:

Quick question, do your images look the same in your editing program as they do pasted into this forum? I've found some images here look identical on the page as they do in the editor and some are quite different.

Anyway, here is an exaggerated version to breathe a bit more life into the face, leaving the blacks and midtones alone, and concentrating on getting the skintones to look less flat and a bit more alive.

I have overdone it a bit just so it is more visible.

To answer your question, the jpg screencaps I posted were taken straight from my editor, I save them as bitmaps and then convert them to maximum quality jpgs using photoshop, then upload them and post them here. They look pretty much identical on this page as they do on my editor. How do some of the images look different to you?

The program I use is not able to selectively target highlights only but from what I can see from your shot, it looks like you've essentially brightened the image and then boosted the contrast to bring the blacks back to the level they were before, is that about right?