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Color adjustment

A good term to describe the HSL (hue, saturation, lightness) adjustments provided in many image-editors. You can use these to change the appearance of specific colors in an image while leaving the rest unaltered.

How much color do you need: Kynance Cove in Cornwall

November 10, 2020 by Rod Lawton

How much color do you need? Color is a complex thing, and sometimes less is more. Sometimes flat-out, full-on saturation works, but sometimes it seems you just need hints of color to get an equally strong effect.

Filed Under: Featured, Ideas, Lightroom Tagged With: Color adjustment, Dehaze, Graduated filters, Lightroom, Loawa 9mm f/2.8, Sony A7R II

HSL color editing and how it works

August 30, 2020 by Rod Lawton

You’re probably used to digital images being in the RGB mode, where the full range of colors is generated with red, green and blue color ‘channels’. But most photo editing programs offer a color editing mode based around the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) color model, and this is where it gets really interesting.

Filed Under: Editing A-Z, Featured, General Tagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments

How to highlight a color and then suppress the rest

August 27, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Color is great, most of the time. But sometimes colors can fight with each other or just undermine the mood you’re trying to create. This is where an understanding of how your software’s color controls work can be a big advantage.

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, Tutorials Tagged With: Color adjustment, Exposure X

HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness) adjustments and what they can do

July 25, 2020 by Rod Lawton

Global HSL adjustments aren’t very useful. If you shift the global hue of an image it quickly looks wrong. The real strength of the HSL system is the way it lets you separate and edit individual colors.

Filed Under: Capture One, Featured, General, Tutorials Tagged With: Color adjustment, HSL adjustments, Hue/Saturation

How to carry out white balance and color adjustments in Exposure X

April 2, 2020 by Rod Lawton

White balance and color corrections are basic image adjustments you’d expect to find in any photo-editing application, so let’s see how they are applied in Exposure X. We’ll use this interior shot of a boutique hotel as an example because it has some very serious color issues caused my the mixed lighting. The strong blue/purple […]

Filed Under: Exposure X, Featured, Tutorials Tagged With: Color adjustment, Exposure X, White balance

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