Lightroom Tip - The New Targeted Adjustment Tool
There is a very powerful new tool in Lightroom v1 called the Targeted Adjustment Tool which offers incredible control over color and grayscale correction.
It is activated by clicking on a small circular icon in the top left hand corner of the curves box in the Develop module. Note that the same tool is also available for HSL / Color / Grayscale adjustments.
Lightroom Targeted
Adjustment tool
It is simple to use.
- You decide what you want to adjust in the Photo, say the Tone Curve as shown above
- Select the Targeted Adjustment tool. Notice the cursor changes to a cross with the tool icon slightly below and to the right of it.
- Select a part of the image with the color range that you want to adjust.
- Then hold the mouse button down and move the mouse up and down
As you do this, in the Tone Curve example, you will see that the curve has a point on it which is representative of the color range you are interested in. When you move the mouse you are then selecting and adjusting only the required part of the curve .
You are able to easily fine tune the mid-tones or the shadows as well as a host of other image adjustments which would require guesswork, or at the very least lots of experience, to be sure of picking the right point on the curve.
This same process works for Hue, Saturation and Grayscale.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Hope you find this useful.
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