Adobe Lightroom For Beginners (2021)

Adjustments Using

the Basic Panel

After cropping and straightening, the most common adjustments

made are white balance, exposure, tonal balance and colour saturation.

Lightroom’s Basic panel is where you can find these features, with an

easy-to-use slider interface.

1

You’ll find the Basic panel in the right-hand sidebar of

the Develop module. Click on the title bar to open the

panel and you’ll see an array of sliders for things like colour

temperature, tint, exposure and contrast; also a panel of Tone

controls and another one for Presence controls that adjust

Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation.

3

To the left of the White Balance selector you’ll see another

tool with an icon shaped like an eyedropper. If you click on

this the eyedropper will become the mouse cursor and you can

use it to select a white-point to manually set the white balance.

If you’ve ever used Adobe Camera Raw you’ll be familiar with

this operation.

2 Near the top of the Basic panel you’ll find the White

Balance controls. This will usually show As Shot by default,

indicating that Lightroom is using the white balance setting

determined by your camera. If you click on this, you’ll see a

context menu with more options. We’ll look more closely at

correcting white balance elsewhere.

4 Immediately below the White Balance selector you’ll see

a pair of sliders for Temp, or colour temperature, and

Tint. These controls allow you to make manual adjustments

to the white balance and colour cast, which is useful if you’re

shooting under unusual artificial lighting conditions that are

not covered by any of the white balance presets.

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