Most users don't take advantage of the hue saturation and adjustment because it seems a bit limited. That's because, by default it applies changes everywhere. Now, of course, you might want to lighten an image, or adjust its saturation levels, but usually it's much more interesting when you do this precisely. Now, instead of having to make selections and masks, we can actually do this by using a targeted tool. The on image tool, or targeted adjustment tool makes it easy to select a range of color and then further modify it. Refining a … [Read more...] about Refining a hue/saturation adjustment layer with the on image tool in Photoshop
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Fixing Problematic Colors with HSL
(Editor's note: This is a guest post by photographer and educator, Tim Grey.) There are many situations where the color in our photographs can be particularly challenging to get right. When a scene features a variety of different light sources, the different colors of light can combine to create colors that don’t look right and can seem impossible to correct. As you shift the color balance in one direction to improve certain colors within the scene, the opposite colors get worse, for example. Fortunately, these types of color issues can … [Read more...] about Fixing Problematic Colors with HSL
Making Fall Colors Pop in Lightroom
Sometimes what you see and what your camera sees are very different. This was the case on a recent fall foliage hike I took a few weeks ago. It can really mess with your head - “my photos are terrible” and the like. Luckily with a few specific sliders in Lightroom, we can bring your fall foliage photos back to life. Let’s take a look. For the purpose of this article, we’re only going to start with a blank slate. We’ll walk through basic adjustments and then add the “finishing steps”. If you’ve already gone through basic adjustments, feel free … [Read more...] about Making Fall Colors Pop in Lightroom
HSL Panel – The Secret for Local Color Adjustments in Lightroom
There are two kinds of tools in Lightroom – global adjustment tools and local adjustment tools. Global adjustments refer to sliders that adjust the overall image. Things like Exposure, Contrast, Whites, Blacks, Clarity, Saturation, Sharpening, etc. Sometimes you just can’t push an image far enough with global changes and you need to target specific areas of an image. The HSL panel specifically targets color adjustments across an image. Let’s look at each feature while editing this photo. We’ll start in the basic panel, adjusting highlights … [Read more...] about HSL Panel – The Secret for Local Color Adjustments in Lightroom
Cheating Blue Skies in Lightroom
We all know that there’s a right way to do things and a “cheating” way, but it doesn’t matter which one you use as long as the end result is the same, right? A few months ago, I was on Zuma Beach in Malibu for sunset. Even though the dynamic range is incredible on the Sony A7r II, I still opted to shoot bracketed images “just in case”. After I merged them into an HDR image using Photomatix Pro, I needed to fix the sky. It looked dark and weird, compared to the blue sky I saw during sunset. Maybe it’s the LA smog, but I need to fix … [Read more...] about Cheating Blue Skies in Lightroom
