{"id":58576,"date":"2024-01-05T16:18:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/?p=58576"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T00:18:25","slug":"tone-panel-most-important-settings-in-lightroom-and-adobe-camera-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photoshopcafe.com\/tone-panel-most-important-settings-in-lightroom-and-adobe-camera-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"Tone Panel, most important settings in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most important Lightroom settings<\/h2>\n

This tutorial focuses on the Tone adjustments in Lightroom and ACR. These are the most important settings to begin editing your images.<\/p>\n

This simple tutorial shows you an effective way to prepare your photos for further enhancement. It gives you a solid base of quality image details. (In many cases this is all you will need).<\/p>\n

This tutorial works with Lightroom Classic, Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW<\/p>\n

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A quick tip to start.<\/p>\n

If you are using Lightroom, drag the develop panel to the left to widern the panel and elongate the sliders. See the red )original length) thia gives u almost 2x the amount of control.<\/p>\n

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Recover details<\/h2>\n

Here is the original image showing a loss of detail in the bight areas in the sky and on the left of the image.<\/p>\n

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We will use the Tone panel and this is the order I use it.<\/p>\n

First, we want to reveal as much detail in the highlights and shadows as we need.<\/p>\n

Drag the highlight slider to the left to reveal details in the sky. (Dehaze also reveals the details, but it also increases contrast, so it shouldn’t be used yet.)<\/p>\n

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If you still need more details, (depends on the image) reduce the exposure slightly.<\/p>\n

I like to slightly reduce the contrast slider to open up more detail (See this tutorial on Contrast to see why)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lets reveal detail in the shadows (lower right of the image)<\/p>\n

Slide the Shadow slider to the right.<\/p>\n

Use the Shadow and the highlight sliders as recovery sliders. Always more the Shadows to the right<\/p>\n

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And always push the highlights to the left.<\/p>\n

Note: The amount you move these will vary from image to image and from camera to camera. These are shot on a drone with low dynamic range files, so they are pushed more aggressively that I would need to move them on camera like the Sony A1 for example.<\/p>\n

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Now we have opened up the details in the image. Next we want to add some punch.<\/p>\n

The Whites and Blacks are used to add the contrast back into the image with minimum loss of details.<\/p>\n

Lets do the whites first.<\/p>\n

Hold down the Alt\/Option key as you move the whites. You will see clipping indications on the screen. This lets us know if we have gone too far and lost highlight details.<\/p>\n

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Move the whites to the right to clean up milky areas in the highlights. This image is already bright, so it doesn’t need much.<\/p>\n

Move the blacks to the left to add punch to the shadows. (Hold down alt\/Option to see clipping too).<\/p>\n

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At this point, you can go on and use other tools including curves and Presence. This tutorial is focusing on the tone adjustments and I hope this helps you get to a good start point in getting better edits!<\/p>\n

Check out this companion tutorial on Contrast vs Whites\/Blacks that fits right in with this tutorial.<\/p>\n

Great to see you at the CAFE<\/p>\n

Colin<\/p>\n

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