I’m a visual person (most photographers are!) and when I use the Color Grading tool in Lightroom, I crank the Saturation to 100 to start. It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
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Lightroom has the HSL panel and has color range masks. When should you use HSL and when do you reach for a color range mask?
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Adjust color like a pro in Lightroom. Use Color Range masks and have complete control over hue, saturation, and luminance. Adjust only the colors you want where you want.
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Adobe finally added Curves to the set of adjustments available with masks. And it’s great. I’ll show you a magic recipe to add a finishing pop to your photos - with a single click.
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As powerful as AI masking tools are, you the photographer still need to bring your smarts to your editing to shape light and depth in a natural way.
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A common theme with my photos from Utah is color correcting and brightening snow in shadowy areas. The masking tools in Lightroom make complex masking selections much easier.
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If you are not using the Intersect feature of Lightroom’s masking tools, you’re missing out on some great power. I use these all the time for my landscape editing.
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Need a quick bump to the midtones. Skip exposure, skip curves. Try the Color Grading tool in Lightroom.
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Give me 2 minutes and I’ll show you how to quickly and easily get more precise dodging and burning in Lightroom.
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Give me 2 minutes and I’ll show you a simple Curves adjustment to fix pesky, stubborn, speckled blown highlights in your images.
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Curves is a powerful and sometimes misunderstood editing tool. I have 5 ‘recipes’ to get you familiar with using curves.
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Object selection is a huge deal for landscape photographers. Why? The Subject selection tool often falls short when the entire scene is the subject.
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