Photoshop
Illustrator 
Dreamweaver
Flash
InDesign
After Effects
Premiere ProUse a shadow/highlight adjustment to recover some of the detail in the image highlights.
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Author: Matt Kloskowski
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has authored and co-authored five books on Photoshop and Illustrator and teaches an advanced Photoshop course for Sessions.edu. In addition to being an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer, Matt is a regular contributor to Photoshop User and Layers magazines and writes weekly columns for several digital imaging websites.
Thanks Matt, this one will come in very handy on some photos that I have. Now off to try it myself!
thnx matt_i tried this out on few of my dance pics shot on black background _ omg_i cd retrieve few hairlines that were lost in abyss _ gosh tat was amazing _ im startled by my ignorance