Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 168)

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Processing and developing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
Learn More. George Jardine explains the parametric tone curve in this video: The Tone Curve . Check out more tips
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To make adjustments to individual points on the tone curve, choose an option from the Point Curve menu, click the
Edit Point Curve button
, and do any of the following:
• Choose an option from the Channel pop-up menu. You can edit all three channels at once, or choose to edit the Red,
Green, or Blue channel individually.
• Click to add a point.
• Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) and choose Delete Control Point to remove a point.
• Drag a point to edit it.
• To return to a linear curve at any time, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) anywhere in the graph and
choose Flatten Curve.
Fine-tune image colors with HSL sliders
Use the HSL and Color panels in the Develop module to adjust individual color ranges in your photo. For example, if
a red object looks too vivid and distracting, you can adjust it using the Saturation slider for Red. Note that all similar
reds in the photo will be affected.
The adjustments you make in the HSL and Color panels produce similar results, but the two panels organize the sliders
in different ways. To open a panel, click its name in the HSL/Color/B&W panel header.
The slides in these panels work on specific color ranges:
Hue Changes the color. For example, you can change a blue sky (and all other blue objects) from cyan to purple.
Saturation Changes the color vividness or purity of the color. For instance, you can change a blue sky from gray to
highly saturated blue.
Luminance Changes the brightness of the color range.
Make adjustments in the HSL panel
❖ In the HSL panel, select Hue, Saturation, Luminance, or All to display the sliders you want to work with.
• Drag the sliders or enter values in the text boxes to the right of the sliders.
• Click the Targeted Adjustment tool in the upper-left of the panel, move the pointer over an area in the photo
that you want to adjust, and then click the mouse. Drag the pointer, or press the Up and Down Arrow keys to
make the adjustment.
Make adjustments in the Color panel
1 In the Color panel, click a color chip to display the range of colors you want to adjust.
2 Drag the sliders or enter values in the text boxes to the right of the sliders.
Adjust the color calibration for your camera
Lightroom uses two camera profiles for every camera model it supports to process raw images. The profiles are
produced by photographing a color target under different white-balanced lighting conditions. When you set a white
balance, Lightroom uses the profiles for your camera to extrapolate color information. These camera profiles are the
same ones developed for Adobe Camera Raw. They are not ICC color profiles.