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In this week’s episode, we discuss Lightroom’s best kept secret for editing contrast in your landscape photos. One of the most difficult aspects of photo editing is knowing when you’ve added too much contrast, too little contrast, or just the right amount – it’s something I’ve struggled with for years, but this new feature in Lightroom certainly makes things much easier. In this video, I’ll review the new contrast tool in Lightroom along with the technique I use to apply this to my landscape photos. This workflow for adding contrast has certainly improved my photos and I hope it can do the same for yours as well. I hope you enjoy this week’s video and as always thanks so much for watching! – Mark D.
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🔥QUICK QUESTION: What tool do you use to add Contrast?
Thank you, Mark. Even though I do not use any Adobe products in my editing, I discovered I can duplicate your preferred technique in the software I do use. I never thought of applying tone curve adjustments through a mask. And in my software, there is indeed a slider that permits the amount of the adjustment to be tweaked for greater or lesser effect.
Perhaps most surprising is, the software I use was introduced thirty years ago in 1993. That's thirteen years before even the original iteration of Lightroom was released in 2006 and just three years after the first version of PhotoShop. I guess the guy who wrote my software was pretty good. And, yes, it was not developed by a team of programmers at a company, but by a single individual working alone to develop a way to edit the digitized scans of his film archives. In those very early days of digital editing, PhotoShop was compatible only with the MacIntosh operating system and this guy wanted editing software that would work on a PC.
On Point! Your tutorials are my learning GO-TO, Mark. The most valuable subscription I have. Many thanks – with love from Atlanta.
Is it not good practice to set the black and white points on every image?
So, effectively, you are showing a way to use opacity in LR. Well done. I guess this is limited to whatever adjustments are available in the mask tool.
Wouldn't it be easier just to take the image into PS and have all the power of opacity available to every adjustment layer
Nicely done – I'd also point out that (a) you don't have to select all, you could use that linear curve on some other mask (e.g., subject, or sky). And (b) once you select all, you still have the option to brush away parts of your image that you don't want to change the contrast in.
I love this new addition – for the all the points your raise + the ability to be selective in where the contrast goes. Thanks for sharing!
Thank You ! Love your work.
Hmmm….now lightroom has 'layers'. Well done Sir. Well done.
Thank you very much for teaching me this new tip. I'm definitely going to give it a try and see how it works on my photos. Quick side question though, what games are you playing on your GameBoy? =-) It's great seeing one!
Brilliant Mark. Thanks mate.
As someone who came from photoshop back in my high school days to using Lightroom now I can conform that slider is a welcome addition. Thanks as always for sharing your insights and workflow tips!
IN reality, many of the tools mentioned (sliders, i should say) are really just playing with contrast in general, and we could probably even say things like Texture and Clarity, and the W/B sliders are more localized contrast sliders I guess (some programs actually have Local Contrast for large, small, and medium detail levels too and Texture and Clarity along with Dehaze is just Adobe's adaption of those but they all I feel do a similar thing in each mfr's program you just have to figure out which one impacts what). Sharpening, too, is a form of contrast, but it only works on the edges mostly to make them stand out more and appear well, sharper, by increasing the contrast of edges.
Hey, this is great, I have to try it. I have to admit, I don't use tone curve much but I think it's powerfull…
Hey, this is great, I have to try it. I have to admit, I don't use tone curve much but I think it's powerfull…
Thanks!
I love this technique. Thanks for sharing. Question about how to get the color picker for the curve adjustment to display on the image. To get it to show on the image, is that something I need to adjust in LR preferences?
Clarity is a contrast tool that deals with midtones. Texture is a sharpening tool in high frequency areas.
Thanks for the video. Many people praise Capture One over LR for it's layers while majority of that if not all can be now done in LR. Perhaps it's not as straightforward as in C1 but essentially it's exactly the same feature.
I see T REX ! 😜
Great tip. Question. Did you start your photo using the Balancing Out the Exposure method you talked about in the July tutorial?
That is a great technique!
Hi Mark, on a different note. I have tried a few times to apply to your Free Lightroom Essentials Course, with a Thanks so much for your interest! Your copy of The Lightroom Essentials Course is on the way along with My Free Landscape Photography Guides as well. However, no email with code arrives. I guess something is not working ok.
Soooo, let me get this straight, the best kept secret is a tool that has been implemented in the newest version of LRC? Dude, clickbait in 2023 is like putting a stripper in a porn shop…
Thanks!!!
Which tool?… The one that works best.
Can you please tell me what’s wrong with the settings on my Nikon d850 camera the Timelapse is not active.
Great idea. I would, however, use the linear gradient rather than the brush which risks having more or less intensity in areas where brush strokes overlap.
Environment in photo is so beautiful that no matter what settings you use the photo still look good
What ball head do you use on your tripod most?