Luminosity 0.1

A PhotoShop plugin, developed using FilterMeister, that permits independent highlight and shadow adjustments without the global side effects or flatness created by levels and curves adjustment. It works well as digital fill flash for shadow recovery, for improving washed-out skies, and as a precursor to conversion to black & white. Unlike the controls in PhotoShop (and like Sigmas fill flash) it can also make negative adjustments, for deliberately deepening shadows or washing out highlights.
This is a work in progress, but already works well on many images, so Im sharing it now.
Drop the filter (download below), which is an .8bf file, into your PhotoShop filters directory, usually something like c:program filesAdobePhotoshopPlugInsFilters. Then launch PhotoShop. Ive tested this with Photoshop 5.0LE and CS, and PS Elements 2.0. Its not demanding and should work with other versions as well.
If youre using other software that accepts PhotoShop compatible plugins installation should be similar, but I dont have any examples to try. It might also run standalone with PluginCommander but I havent tried that either.