New Lightroom Article

[Guest WPalank]

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I don't know how many of our Forum members are NAPP members, but I came across a very interesting article in the most recent Photoshop User Magazine (July/August) entitiled, "Total Control" by Kevin Ames (pg. 74).

Now I've been a Lightroom user since Beta1 and he hit on some things that I wasn't aware of in the program, specifically in the Histogram area. The feature I am trying to illustrate is how to control the exposure, fill light, shadows and highlight without ever opening the Basic panel or touching a slider.

 

First, you can right click (or control-click on the Mac, if you're a dinosaur and don't have at least a two button mouse;) ) within the Histogram and turn on or off clipping.

With your mouse still within the Histogram and depending which quadrant, you can left click and drag to effect the Recovery, Exposure, Fill Light or Blacks. A gray area will appear showing which portion of the Histogram you are affecting and a title will appear in the lower left illustrating the specific area.

 

I'm not exactly sure how useful this is, but I found it very nice to to really micro-manage these areas while watching the Histogram expand or compress.

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[Guest guy_mancuso]

Actually that is pretty cool. You can really just stay in the box and make the adjustments there instead of moving around to each slider

[Guest WPalank]

Guy,

Glad I'm not the only one that had no idea this feature existed!

[Paul Hart]

Thanks for that. V helpful.

[stephengilbert]

Here's another tip: you can use the backslash key (above the return key) to toggle between your adjusted image and the previous version. Click once to see the previous, click again to return to the adjusted.

[JT07]

Thanks fellas

 

Very useful hints, I had no idea on them either.

[Peter L]

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Option right click(on a mac) will show you the clipping areas with the curser in the histogram

over recovery and fill light.

 

Peter

[farnz]

In the Develop module just move your mouse over the triangles in the top corners of the histogram and they will show you clipping - left for shadows and right for highlights.

 

Pete.

[stevme]

Speaking of Lightroom . . .

 

I recently broke down and purchased an upgrade to Photoshop CS3 to go with my version of Lightroom (now 1.1).

 

As you know, there is a feature whereby you can leave Lightroom to edit photos in Photoshop and then return back to Lightroom when you are finished -- very handy.

 

However, with my new setup, I notice that images, when returned to Lightroom, are much brighter than they appeared in Photoshop CS3. I had no such problem when swtiching back and forth between Lightroom and Photoshop CS2.

 

Do you suppose I have gamma incorrectly set somewhere? Or is there some other problem I need to look into. Again, the same photo, the same monitor, but different luminance levels.

 

Steve