Is your Lightroom Classic Develop Module suddenly missing its HSL Panel? Don’t panic. HSL in all its glory has been nested in the new Color Mixer Panel under the “Mixer” tab. Nothing has changed but its location. HSL looks and works exactly as it did in previous versions of Lightroom Classic, but don’t stop there. Under the “Point Color” tab is a new set of controls that enable much more granular color selection on the basis of hue, saturation, or luminance. Think of Point Color as the Targeted Adjustment tool on steroids, especially since it can also be accessed in the Masking Panel, finally bringing the power of Hue, Saturation, and Luminance to local adjustments. Huzzah!
Read more on Adobe’s Blog about other new features added to the October 2023 Release of Adobe Lightroom Classic 13.0.
For those of you who aren’t so good at remembering to set the time in your camera to match the time zone you’re shooting in – it’s possible to change the original capture time of your image from within Lightroom Classic, after the fact. Here’s a short tutorial video demonstrating the technique.
Lightroom is a near-magical piece of software. It’s both librarian and technician for your digital images, and unlike Photoshop, it leaves your original photo untouched throughout the entire editing process. How do you create a version of your image that’s suitable for social media, email, or printing? In Lightroom, you don’t save photos in the…
I’ll be speaking in the Image Resource Center on Wednesday, November 13th, 2019, 11:30am – 12:15pm The topic is: “Dirty Tricks for Underwater Photographers in Post”. I’ve got some cool new dirty tricks to show off, and you’ll want to learn them! You can also find me throughout the show at the Backscatter booth, where…
It’s not possible to permanently trash images while working in a Collection…or is it? By default, images deleted from a Collection are not permanently deleted from the Lightroom Catalog or (more importantly) from your hard drive.
Why take your RAW adjustments to eleven? Because it’s one louder than ten, as Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel so aptly puts it. The expression “taking it to eleven” refers to the act of taking something to an extreme, and although I usually don’t recommend taking post-processing to an extreme, there are times when a little…
Nerd Alert! For those of us who spend a significant amount of time removing backscatter in Photoshop, having quick access to the best spot removal tools is critical. I typically switch between the spot healing brush, healing brush, and patch tool many times during a single edit. The keyboard shortcut for the healing brushes is…