April 1, 2009
Controlling Vibrance and Saturation in Lightroom
Those of you who attended my sessions on Lightroom at the recent Photoshop World conference in Boston may remember me saying that some of the session content could also be found here on the Lightroom-news website.
In this movie I wanted to show a comparison between the Saturation and Vibrance sliders and in particular the damaging effect a Saturation boost have on the highlight channel clipping. I also go on to show how to restore detail through the use of targeted HSL adjustments and finally, an example of where screen preview color management may fall apart and how to relate the Vibrance adjustments you make in the Develop module to the actual final print.
Please note this video is in Quicktime format. A player can be downloaded from apple.com.
These videos would be more useful if we could hear the audio.
It plays fine on my laptop and main computer. If there is no audio on your computer I would check to see if you have the latest Apple Quicktime player.
Great articles. Thanks you. Hey. Aren’t there two l’s in controlling. :-)
Yes, you are right! Hey, that’s why we all need proof editors sometimes!
Sounds just fine on this end too. Earwax?
When watching Quicktime within my browser IE and Firefox I can’t see the controls(volume,stop start or slider). Has anyone had a similar problem? It’s only started recently so I assume it’s the latest version of Quicktime plugin. I use Vista 64.
Martin,
I’ve noticed in your example movies that some of the files you use are .CR2 files, and some are .DNG files.
How do you decide which files you are going to edit as original CR2 files, and which ones you convert to DNG?
Thanks!
-Zach
Zach, For the most part I prefer to archive my photos as DNG. For demo and writing purposes it is useful for me to keep a certain number of images as CR2 originals. If not for that, nearly all my files would be converted to DNG.
What do you gain for demo purposes by leaving some files as CR2?
Thanks again, and thanks for replying!
-Zach
Mainly the opportunity to take demo screen shots of importing files in their unaltered state.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Great video, well done. I would agree on the sound, which seems set too low. I have to crank up the volume in order to hear it properly. Seems to be the case for all of Martin’s videos as well as Sean McCormick’s.
I’ve experimented with different recommended USB microphones and I admit it has always been a struggle to find one that records the best at full input volume. If you check out the movie I am going to post tomorrow you’ll find that the soundtrack has been improved by simply importing and exporting through iMovie.