It used to be that a third party noise reduction software like Noise Ninja was necessary to lessen noise in photos. However, once Lightroom’s noise reduction capabilities were updated in Version 3 and are still on par with Lightroom Version 5, Lightroom can effectively diminish noise in photos as good as Noise Ninja or any other third party noise reduction...
As an aside from our main workflow, before we discuss the Detail Panel in Lightroom’s Develop module, let’s discuss the basics of a Lightroom Sharpening workflow. A sharpening workflow generally consists of three different types of image sharpening: capture sharpening, creative sharpening and output sharpening. The gist of a sharpening workflow is to limit the amount of sharpening we add...
If you’re looking to adjust color in your photos, mainly the hue, saturation, and/or luminance, the HSL panel in Lightroom will be your go-to. The HSL Panel in Lightroom allows you to adjust the hue, saturation, and luminance of eight specific colors individually. As seen in the photos below, the HSL and Color panels are located just below the Tone...
The Tone Curve panel (as shown in the photo below) is yet another incredibly intuitive tool within the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Develop module. As I alluded to when discussing the Contrast slider in a previous blog post about the Tone Sliders, I use the Tone Curve panel to add contrast to my images instead of using the Contrast slider in...
To make images "pop," photographers often increase saturation levels. Vivid colors make photographs stand out, but it’s important to know how far is too far when it comes to saturating photos. In Lightroom, a few sliders, known as the Presence sliders, allow us to add saturation and "pop," for lack of a better word, to our images. In my previous...
