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Great tip! I want to note that adjusting tone in Curves affects saturation as well as luminance, but adjusting the tone sliders only changes luminance. Apparently the tone sliders used to do a Curves type adjustment in early versions, because strong adjustments could make colors grayish or garish. In later versions it appears Adobe changed the tone sliders to sneak off into Lab space, so they adjust only L and leave saturation unchanged. I believe the color grading luminance sliders do something similar. So for color pictures, tone sliders and/or the grading tool is preferable to Curves, unless you happen to like the inadvertent saturation changes.
Oh, I love this tip! I never thought about doing that. Thanks so much for sharing, and I plan on experimenting a lot with this. Love your channel, Anthony. It's on my top 5 must watch list.
Anthony, thanks for your many helpful editing tips. I watch all new videos on your channel unless they feature software I don't use. In most cases, I tick the like button but have seldom commented. Thanks for your clear easy-to-follow instructions. I have learned so much from you.
To me, it looks like it is working as a mid tone contrast tool. This is brilliant. I've always moved to Photoshop for mid tone contrast using a sharpening technique that I learned years ago. Now, I can do that in LR! Thanks for the tip!
Good tip, how does this fit in the workflow? basics tab then midtones? or midtones then basic tab? I assume this would be done before DiNoise or NoNoise. thanx
Nice tip. I usually edit so fast doing mostly street photography and taking thousands of photos a week... and to be honest with Olympus the Raw images come out pretty nice already for web use. But fir print mire care should be taken IMO. So im gonna try this.
Thank you for that tip, that's well worth knowing, there is another slider that helps images pop (in my opinion) and thats the Blue Primary slider in Calibration.
Thanks for the tip! Here is what I assume Adobe wants us to do: Start with the midtones, by adjusting exposure. Exposure doesn't affect the very dark and very light parts of the image as much. For example, increasing exposure won't easily blow out highlights, at least not so much that they couldn't be recovered with the other sliders. Then, use the other sliders to adjust highlights, shadows, whites and blacks.
Do you find that you ALWAYS have to slide it all the way to the right? In my opinion, it sure isn't a very big addition and I'm wondering if a luminence mask might work better?
Testing this revealed a bug...? - adjust Mid Luminance to any value (higher to see the bug more clearly) - switch to Highlights - adjust Balance only Result: the Lum value of the image changes, but no Lum value in Highlights has been set.
The balance control changes balance for all three regions, shadows, midtones, and highlights. So the change you made to balance in the highlights section applies to all tones. If you go back to midtones, you will see that the balance sider there changed to be the same as your change in the highlights section.
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In today's tutorial, I demonstrate the hidden midtone slider in Lightroom.
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Topaz Sharpen AI - bit.ly/3cDqa5J
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*Save 15% on all Topaz Labs apps - use the Promo Code: AMDISC15
or instead of Topaz Denoise AI:
On1 NoNoise AI - on1.sjv.io/EaGR2K (Save 20% with Promo Code: AM20 - May not work on sale product)
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Thank you!
Great tip!
I want to note that adjusting tone in Curves affects saturation as well as luminance, but adjusting the tone sliders only changes luminance. Apparently the tone sliders used to do a Curves type adjustment in early versions, because strong adjustments could make colors grayish or garish. In later versions it appears Adobe changed the tone sliders to sneak off into Lab space, so they adjust only L and leave saturation unchanged. I believe the color grading luminance sliders do something similar. So for color pictures, tone sliders and/or the grading tool is preferable to Curves, unless you happen to like the inadvertent saturation changes.
Oh, I love this tip! I never thought about doing that. Thanks so much for sharing, and I plan on experimenting a lot with this. Love your channel, Anthony. It's on my top 5 must watch list.
Anthony, thanks for your many helpful editing tips. I watch all new videos on your channel unless they feature software I don't use. In most cases, I tick the like button but have seldom commented. Thanks for your clear easy-to-follow instructions. I have learned so much from you.
I love all the things I learn about Lightroom through your channel. I look forward to the day your Lightroom course is available.
Thanks! Super Anthony as usual!
Thank you Robert!
Thanks once again for this one, Anthony - you're the best!
Thank you so much for this, I love how you share your knowledge in little bits so it's digestable by beginners like me.
Thanks!
Thank you Nancy!
Thank you Anthony for this great tip
Cheers Anthony. Love your videos👍
Great idea, we get in the habit doing LR a certain way, great to see another perspective.
EXCELLENT!!!! thanks for sharing 😀
To me, it looks like it is working as a mid tone contrast tool. This is brilliant. I've always moved to Photoshop for mid tone contrast using a sharpening technique that I learned years ago. Now, I can do that in LR! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks, I’m going to have to experiment with this.
Good tip, how does this fit in the workflow? basics tab then midtones? or midtones then basic tab? I assume this would be done before DiNoise or NoNoise. thanx
Great tip, thanks for passing it along!
Nice tip. I usually edit so fast doing mostly street photography and taking thousands of photos a week... and to be honest with Olympus the Raw images come out pretty nice already for web use. But fir print mire care should be taken IMO. So im gonna try this.
Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a go.
Thank you for that tip, that's well worth knowing, there is another slider that helps images pop (in my opinion) and thats the Blue Primary slider in Calibration.
I meant the Saturation slider not the Hue
Thanks for the tip! Here is what I assume Adobe wants us to do: Start with the midtones, by adjusting exposure. Exposure doesn't affect the very dark and very light parts of the image as much. For example, increasing exposure won't easily blow out highlights, at least not so much that they couldn't be recovered with the other sliders. Then, use the other sliders to adjust highlights, shadows, whites and blacks.
Thanks Anthony, handy to know.
Great way of doing this. Thanks!
I also discovered dragging the histogram in the middle does a great job on midtones too.
This changes the overall exposure, not just the midtones, as revealed in the Tones section.
It always amazes me what is lightroom.
Thanks for another great tip. Off the subject, have you had any experience with Topaz Photo AI?
Crikey, that’s wonderful, thank you
Another great tip. My "go-to" guy comes through again.
Do you find that you ALWAYS have to slide it all the way to the right? In my opinion, it sure isn't a very big addition and I'm wondering if a luminence mask might work better?
I’ve CV played with this area of LR in the past, but after watching THIS VIDEO…. Holy crap…. Huge difference….
How different is this to using the 'brightness' slider in software that has such?
Thanks again!!!!
Awesome! 😎❤️☃️😃
WOW! This is great :D
Cool Tip!
The "Grading" slider works really well on IR photos playing with color combinations.
Im interested in how you use the grading liner for IR photos. Never seemed to find anything that really works.
In your first example, it seems to me that an exposure adjustment would be a good starting point. ;)
I agree, just adjust the exposure to get your mids where you want and then tone the highlights, darks and shadows to compensate.
maybe Lightroom will add a midtone slider to the basics pannel in an upcoming upgrade? Thank you for this tip.
Awesome!
Testing this revealed a bug...?
- adjust Mid Luminance to any value (higher to see the bug more clearly)
- switch to Highlights
- adjust Balance only
Result: the Lum value of the image changes, but no Lum value in Highlights has been set.
The balance control changes balance for all three regions, shadows, midtones, and highlights. So the change you made to balance in the highlights section applies to all tones. If you go back to midtones, you will see that the balance sider there changed to be the same as your change in the highlights section.
@@oldtvnut ah dang, you're right! For some reason, i was thinking that the balance was per-tone, not global.
Thanks!
Thank you Steve!