Originally Posted by
Morkel Erasmus
I agree that Tony Kuyper's actions are the best in the business for luminosity selections and adjustments. I have them, but I'm often lazy and I've found I get good results for wildlife images for midtone and local contrast using one of 3 quick methods. You'd have to REALLY pixel peep to spot the tonal differences between these approaches and detailed lumonisity work on wildlife images.
1. LCE (unsharp mask, 10%, 20px) - as a layer and paint selective areas through a mask
2. Nik Tonal Contrast (specific slider settings, contrast type on "fine") - as a layer, adjust luminosity as desired
3. Shadow/Highlights tool but ONLY the midtone contrast slider 12-20 points (all others set to zero). :w3