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As with the shadow point, you may move the highlight around after you place it. SuperCurves will highlight the white areas of the image for emphasis.

Do not use a pure reflection, for example a bright highlight on a metallic object, as a highlight. Such areas, by definition, do not contain useful detail and will not suffer if they are allowed to blow out to pure white. Instead, pick the next brightest white object in the scene in which you wish to retain detail.

To get the most out of the highlight, you may occasionally choose to ignore areas that are pure white but contain no useful detail. A good example of this would be sky areas that are already overexposed to the point that they contain no detail.

Not all images have a white point - for example a low key image, or an image whose brightest object is a clear blue sky. If this is the case, click on Next and set a neutral point.

Curvemeister gives more importance to the highlight than the shadow for color correction, particularly in the RGB and wgCMYK color spaces. This is because shadow color may be inaccurate for dark areas.

As with the shadow point, you may also drag the left and right Threshold Lines of the Master or luminance curve to determine the brightest and darkest areas of your image. Note: It is tempting (and sometimes correct) to change the white "cutoff point" for your image this way, but bear in mind that you may create a new color cast this way. For this reason, it is usually better to set an explicit highlight, since this will tend to remove color casts.