CS4 Photoshop Classroom in a book Question.

Hello, Could someone please explain this to me as am having trouble understanding this. I have bought the above and I am on pages 19 - 21 of the book. I have followed instructions accordingly with reference selecting the headlight - and then inverting the selection so that everything is selected apart from the headlight.
The book wants me to spotlight the headlight and as its says "you'll want to darken the rest of the image, not the area inside," which would be my current selection using the instructions the book gave me above to select the headlight and then invert it.
I then have to go to the curves panel and then drag the control point from the upper right corner to the the left so the values read input - 204 output -255.
The book then says that the highlights are brightened in the selected area which to me would be everything outside the headlight as the selection is inverted, and I can see this when I do as requested this is the case.
I know I am probably being silly but I thought the point was to "darken the rest of the image," not the headlight in order to highlight it. What am I not understanding or am I overthinking it. Can someone please explain this to me?
Thanks.

itsmelynzi wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm VERY new to InDesign and am trying to go through this on my own. I'm working on chapter 3 in the book and for some reason, when I import the text file it asks for, the file moves my image at the bottom of the page to the next page. Any suggestions on how I can fix it? If you need a page reference, I"m working on p 84, but have a feeling something's wrong with the master in order for it to be doing this.
Thanks so much!
Depending on which print run of the book, there may be errors in the documentation, or in the supplied files.
Look in the book for a link to the book's site at the publisher, and when you get there, look for errata, corrections, and new downloadable files.
One other cause of your text shifting problems may be that your fonts are not the exact same ones used in the sample files - perhaps an older version with the same name and identifiers.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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Hi Everyone,
I'm VERY new to InDesign and am trying to go through this on my own. I'm working on chapter 3 in the book and for some reason, when I import the text file it asks for, the file moves my image at the bottom of the page to the next page. Any suggestions on how I can fix it? If you need a page reference, I"m working on p 84, but have a feeling something's wrong with the master in order for it to be doing this.
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itsmelynzi wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I'm VERY new to InDesign and am trying to go through this on my own. I'm working on chapter 3 in the book and for some reason, when I import the text file it asks for, the file moves my image at the bottom of the page to the next page. Any suggestions on how I can fix it? If you need a page reference, I"m working on p 84, but have a feeling something's wrong with the master in order for it to be doing this.
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Depending on which print run of the book, there may be errors in the documentation, or in the supplied files.
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One other cause of your text shifting problems may be that your fonts are not the exact same ones used in the sample files - perhaps an older version with the same name and identifiers.
HTH
Regards,
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