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Editing on Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is a popular photo editing application, available on smartphones, tablets and desktop.

Light Adjustments

The most common task is correcting for white balance.

#TODO What is the tone curve?

• Burning and Dodging: make bright brighter and dark darker

• Brightness controls the overall look from bright to dark

• Contrast (the ratio between highlights and shadows)

• Highlights controls the brightness/contrast of the brightest parts of the image

• Shadows controls the brightness/contrast of the darkest parts of the image #TODO histogram analysis of highlights vs whites, shadows vs blacks

• Whites shifts the colors by moving the white point

• Blacks shifts the colors by moving the black point

Color Adjustments

• Temperature controls the emphasis on blue vs orange
• Tint controls the emphasis on green vs pink

Both adjustments are mainly used for correcting for while balance if the shooting conditions affect the subject.

• Vibrance controls boosts to colors that are not not already bright
• Saturation controls boosts to the intensity of all the colors in the photo

In the Mix mode, you can edit individual colors in the photo.

• Hue controls color shifting
• Saturation controls boosts to the intensity of this color
• Luminance controls the brightness of this color

In the Gradient tab it’s possible to perform similar hue adjustments but focusing on shadows, middle tones or highlights at a time.

Effects

• Texture sharpens or smooths the edges
• Clarity is similar to texture but coupled with contrast
• Dehaze controls a fog-like blur
• Vignette controls the brightness of the corners of the image, used to emphasize the center
• Midpoint controls the advance of the Vignette
• Feather controls the transition of the Vignette
• Roudness controls the excentricity of the vignette

Details

• Sharpenning can recover a blurry image
• Radius, Detail and Masking are further advanced controls for Sharpenning
• Noise Reduction cleans up grains and distorted pixels

Optics

Lens corrections, sometimes useful for wide lens and fixing fish eye effects.

Geometry

Other image distortion tools.