BASIC COLOUR ADJUSTMENTS
5 When making incremental adjustments like this we can
make use of another Lightroom feature, the Snapshot.
Make your first adjustment, in this case +50 Clarity to boost
contrast, and then click on the Create Snapshot button on the
left sidebar. Name the snapshot “+50 Clarity”, and then click
on Create. The snapshot is now saved.
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Make your next adjustment, then create and label a second
snapshot of that state as well. You can do this as many
times as you want with different adjustment combinations. You
can instantly switch from one state to another by clicking on
the snapshots in the left sidebar, letting you instantly compare
different adjustment setups.
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Making these careful incremental adjustments to an
image can get confusing and it’s easy to make mistakes.
If you make an adjustment that you’re not happy with, you
can instantly undo it and go back to a previous step using the
History panel in the left sidebar; just click on the step to which
you’d like to return.7 Another good way to see how your adjustments look
when compared to the original unaltered shot is to use
the Before & After split-screen view. In the lower left of the
screen on the options bar you’ll see several buttons. Click on
the right one, labelled Y Y and both the edited and unedited
images will appear side-by-side.
10 Adjusting colour in a landscape scene such as this is
very subjective but it’s what looks the best to you as the
photographer that really matters. Here we’ve adjusted Clarity,
Vibrance, Saturation, Highlights and Shadows and the result is
definitely a significant improvement over the image we started
with and has brighter colours and better contrast.8 The right-hand button on the option bar provides
another split-screen option; this displays the left half of
the unaltered image on the left of the screen and right half of
the edited version on the right of the screen. You can change
positions using the pop-up menu that appears when you click
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