Question for users of Aperture & Lightroom

I've been trying to mimic the effects of Aperture's Highlights & Shadows tool in Lightroom, and I just can't seem to do it.

I have tried a mixture of just about every tool that LR has, and I can't get the same results. Perhaps Highlights & Shadows is also using Levels & Curves to some extent? That could explain why I can't reproduce the results in LR since it doesn't have those tools.

LR does have Curves... (at least it sounded like you said that it didn't).

In LR the levels (black and white points) are set with the Black and Exposure sliders. As FMX said there is a curve editor, two variations as a matter of fact, parametric and point curve, in LR3. Recovery and Fill are similar to a classic H/S tool, but I'd advise not being heavy-handed with either.

Thanks for the responses so far.

I know LR3 has the Tone Curve, but Aperture has Curves (R,G,B, RGB) and Levels (R,G,B, RGB, Luminance) that are like the tools you would find in Photoshop. LR3 doesn't have these.

In Aperture, Recovery & Brightness are similar to the Recovery & Fill tools in LR3. Lightroom does not have a tool that directly compares to Highlights & Shadows. What I am trying to figure out is if I can achieve that same effect in LR3, or if it could only be matched in Photoshop. It's entirely possible that LR3 can't do it and Adobe wants their customers to go to Photoshop for more advanced editing - similar to them including a spot removal tool instead of an actual clone brush.

Anyway, I have used both programs extensively for over 1 year, and I know them both pretty well. Highlights & Shadows is one of my favorite tools in Aperture and I would love to be able to do the same thing in Lightroom. Just thought another user of both programs may have figured it out.