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Editing expert Simon

Skellon explores

Lightroom’s split toning

adjustments to produce

two very different effects.

Photos by James Ostinga

and Simon Skellon.

Hue’s

in control?

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Lightroom CC
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ightroom makes the split toning process
incredibly simple, with a number of
dedicated sliders and colour pickers
designed to help you set the right tone to
match the image. Whether you’re editing a portrait,
landscape, cityscape, or wildlife image, there’s a split-
toning effect to suit. Using two colours – or hues as
they’re known in most editing programs – Lightroom
applies one tone to the highlights and another to the
shadows. Lightroom gives us the creative freedom to
choose those colours and how much is applied to our
image; it really is a matter of choice and preference.
In this project I chose to demonstrate this effect
using a colour and a monochrome image, because the
end results are very different. Adding tone to a black-
and-white image gives us an effect that harks back to
the chemical days of photographic processing. On
the other hand, editing a colour image can help you
produce images with more punch. Either way, these
effects are just a few clicks away, so let’s get started. ❂
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY JUNE 2016