Learn to effectively combine a range of Adobe Lightroom Classic colour editing tools and harness their full potential to create photographic edits which are full of character!
Taking great photographs is only half the story — how you edit your photographs can mean the difference between a good photograph and a great one! Unedited and raw digital photographs lack soul, and working with the colours and tones helps to add personality and character, and create exciting and diverse photo edits that speak!
The range of colour editing tools available in Adobe Lightroom Classic can be a little overwhelming, but learning what each of the tools does, how it differs from other tools and how it can be combined with other tools to enhance a look can make your editing much more versatile and will help you produce more considered and aesthetically pleasing edits, helping your images tell a story!
I’m Dominic Righini-Brand, a professional photographer, designer and teacher passionate about film photography and recreating filmic looks in my digital photographs. And in this class, I will be sharing with you my special tips, techniques & workflows for getting the most out of Adobe Lightroom Classic tools for enhancing colour edits of raw photographs.
Through the structured approach I’ll be sharing in this class and looking at the different tools available, their uses and their place in the editing workflow, you will be able to enhance your understanding of when and how you can use various tools for working with colours and tones, and better integrate them into your workflow and effectively combine these tools to create exciting and varied edits.
In this class, I will cover:
- Making quick changes to enhance your edits using Profiles;
- Developing the base for your photo edits with Tonal Recovery;
- Enhancing tonal depth & contrast using Parametric, Point and Colour Channel Curves;
- Making initial colour adjustments using Calibration;
- Understanding the new Colour Grading tools;
- Harmonising colours & setting the mood with Colour Grading tools;
- Finalising your colour look with HSL Adjustments;
- Enhancing your edits with local adjustments using Masks.
This class is designed for intermediate and advanced level photographers, graphic designers, photo editors and content creators. Whether you are looking to take your photo-editing skills and proficiency to the next level and create more varied edits, or feel overwhelmed with all the tools available and don’t know where to start, this is the class for you!
To get the most out of this class you will need access to the latest version (mid-2022 release or newer) of Adobe Lightroom Classic or Adobe Camera Raw, and a reasonable understanding of photographic terminology and basic photo correction and editing tools and techniques.
In this class, we will be working with RAW photographs because images captured in RAW have more information saved in the file, increasing versatility and the range of stuff you can do when editing. Technically you can use the same techniques when editing positive image formats, like TIFF and JPEGs, but there will be some limitations based on the actual information stored in the image.
SOFTWARE
For the best experience possible you’ll need a Creative Cloud version of Adobe Lightroom Classic (11.3 release or newer) or Adobe Camera Raw (14.3 release or newer). You can download the latest trial version of the Adobe Creative Cloud Photography suite from adobe.com.
For demonstration, I will be using Adobe Lightroom Classic, but you will be able to follow along in Adobe Camera RAW, because it has exactly the same tools. If you are using Adobe Lightroom — on a tablet, smartphone or computer— you will also be able to follow along for most of this class, however, techniques which involve working with Calibration are currently unavailable in Lightroom.
Related Photography Classes:
- Black & White Photography: Using Color Filters to Enhance Your Film & Digital Images
- Beginner’s Guide to Retouching Old Photographs in Adobe Photoshop
- The Camera’s Journey Through Time: A Brief History of Photography
- Mastering Duotones in Adobe Photoshop
