ADVANCED IMAGE EDITING
The Tone Curve allows easy
and intuitive control over the
tonal balance of the image.
By dragging the line into new
shapes, you can selectively
enhance or reduce the
brightness of shadows,
highlights and or mid-tones,
altering the contrast.The Transform panel lets
you correct tilted horizons
and otherwise move or
rotate the image, as well
as making geometric and
perspective transformation.
It also includes automatic
level detection.By applying different hue
and saturation settings to
highlights and shadows,
spilt toning can mimic the
effects of different film
processing techniques, as
well as producing unique
colour effects.This panel holds your main
colour correction controls.
Here you can adjust hue,
saturation and luminance
across multiple colour
channels, depending on
how you prefer to work
and also selectively filter a
monochrome output.The Effects panel holds
some of the more unusual
tools that Lightroom
offers, including post-
crop vignetting, simulated
film grain and the Dehaze
tool, which landscape
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Split Toning mimics the
effects of advanced darkroom
processing techniques where
one type of photographic
film would be processed
using chemicals designed for
another film type.
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This tool is designed to let you
move and manipulate images
and correct perspective.
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You can find several useful
effects here, including film
grain, vignetting and the
Dehaze tool.
Advanced editing
techniques require a
better set of fine-tuning
features to make sure
you can extract as much
detail, colour and tonal
information from your
photo as is possible.
Within the coming pages
we’ll look at some of the
more complex adjustment
panel elements and see
how they can be applied
to your photos. We can
look at tonal control,
image sharpening and
adjustments to perfect
your photo's saturation
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