Digital Outback Photo have reviewed a plugin for Photoshop CS and PhotoShop Elements 3(Windows-only I’m afraid) that aims to brighten up the shadows in your images without causing too many unwanted side-effects.

“Improving the tonality of images is one of the most difficult tasks. Especially the shows are either to flat or even more often to dark. There are quite a few tools on the market that address this issue. The most well known is “Shadow Highlight” in Photoshop CS. In our opinion, “Shadow Highlight” has two major shortcomings:

- It can produce halos
- With its many sliders the use is not really easy

Here we think the Shadow Illuminator plugin offers a great alternative.”

Website: Digital Outback Photo - Shadow Illuminator Plugin Review