Some hints about customising tonality and contrast.
Smartlighting, use the boxes modes and a low percentage say 15%.
Smartlighting does lower contrast levels in order to squeeze in a larger dynamic range.
High key image, box the bright part to lower that high bright a bit.
Lowkey image, litt up a face in the shadow box the face. Raise some darker stuff box in shadows.
After that box is set you can push and pull exposure compensation and the boxed part of the image behaves as the chickenhead when you move the body.
(It stayes steady.)
This is al about luminosity not contrast.
Advanged Contrast sliders are in my mind combined use with the selective tone sliders. By set tone and contrast the same setting you half the setting for the same effect. -40 highlight tone and highlight contrast 0 is equal to -20 highlight tone and -20 highlight contrast.
To raise partial detail you can play with advanged contrast.
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I found three more adjustments in the Contrast panel! - #6 by mwsilvers
Filmpacks finecontrast is great for non sharpening saturation, microcontrast is too heavy most of the time.
I have my preset vibrance at +18 to match the camera’s vivid colormodes a bit.
I use local modes alot to “paint” parts in the image to my liking.
After a wile you know almost instant which tools are fit to use.
If you have questions just post them. With rawfile example if you can.
Edit: And this helps too to understand contrast controls