I've been struggling with color in Lightroom for so, so, so long. I would use presets and still the photos never came out the way I wanted them. This video literally opened my eyes and even without presets the photos are the way I want them! Thank you!!!

Love when people REALLY share their way of doing things. Amazing insights in color grading. Thanks Man.

I LOVE your editing videos. One of the best I’ve found out of watching hundreds over the years. Love the tip about bending the colors together. Thank you!

Todd, what a great video! Agree, colour is one of the hardest things to come to grips with in RAW editing, and you have just made it a good bit easier. Thank you.

I switched to linear profiles and not switching back! I used them with my EOS R and now with my R5….it’s completely changed how I edit in Lightroom! Put the linear profile on and click Auto to get my starting point! Saves so much time! I’ll be doing a basic video on them soon!

I've been using Lightroom since it's inception, and this is one of the best videos I've come across. I'm a retired civilian army, photographer, and I really enjoyed this video. You can teach an old dog new tricks.

WOW - after more than 10 years of working with Lightroom realized a lot of new things through your video. Great tips, very well explained. Thank you!

I love your opening frustrated comment. I have said this to myself so many times. These are all good tips. A couple I haven't thought of. Thank you.

These are excellent tips, Todd. Thank you so much. I almost NEVER use Saturation in my photos and use Vibrance instead, because as you pointed out, when you use Saturation it applies it to EVERYTHING regardless of whether it's already saturated or not, but when you use Vibrance, it only applies it to the dull parts of the image. Love the tip especially about bending the colours together. Keep up the great work Todd.

I have to admit, this video has added more ways to edit my images in ways I never knew. The tip to switch to b/w and adjust tones before going back to colors is something I will start adding to my workflow... Thanks Todd!!!

Thank you. After watching numerous KZread videos discussing color in Lightroom, this one stands out as the best

This video along with 10 Step RAW Photo Processing / Where to Start, What To Do Next, Where to Finish, are very helpful. Sometimes I think that if you master the techniques well, plugins or programs related to luminosity and chromance are not necessary. Particularly sometimes I start from a neutral profile and Adobe's is better than Canon's neutral profile in my opinion.👍👍

This has easily been the most helpful tutorial I’ve watched in regards to color grading in Lightroom, thank you!

Only just found this. It’s brilliant. Been using the black and white tip all day and it works! Downside is that I now want to re-edit my whole catalogue 😂

One of the best videos for photography I have seen with fantastic tips. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks Todd!

Thank you for a truly excellent tutorial, Todd. The best treatment of color editing I've seen on YT over several years. Lots of useful tips and tricks -- I expect to return to this vid again and again. Cheers

Excellent video. I have been watching hundreds of video about color, but you really revealed new tips, and most importantly, you made me understand what it is underneath the profiles and slides. Thank you so much!!!

Really good explanation. Hands down this is one of the best🙌 very informative, defo will watch many times and make notes. Very good job👍

One of the most helpful videos I’ve seen as a photographer thank you

Great to watch and think of different approaches to try. Can't wait to see your video on the new point colour tool in LR!

Phenomenon information - changed the way I will be editing moving forward.

Excellent and clear, and so much more practical and encouraging than almost anything I have looked at when trying to wrap my head round this. Thanks Todd!

Another great session in how to use the multitude of LR Classic editing tool. Looks like I'll have to watch this again a few times to digest so many new editing tools. Thanks Todd 😀

That was one of the most useful and well explained set of Lightroom tips I've seen on KZread. Great stuff.

Amazing explanation of every aspect, it was one of the best I saw in terms of merging the technicalities with the artistic side of photography. Thank you.

Fascinating !! I’ve never seen anyone explain it that way before so thank you, I will use all of these tips. Much appreciated

May be one of the best videos on lightroom. Really helped me out a lot, thanks!

Exceptionally well done, Todd. I thought I had a pretty good handle on color editing before watching your tutorial, and I'm glad to say I was wrong. There are any number of gems in your presentation that I'm anxious to put into practice. Kudos too for your teaching skills, especially your gift for making the complex simple and easy to grasp. Can't wait to see what you'll be doing as AI infiltrates more and more of the photo editing realm. Slainte !

@jordanking7711

10 ай бұрын

That being said though, just because those AI features are there in that program, that doesn't necessarily mean you need to take advantage of them. If you find that you would be better served, by editing the normal way without using AI, well then do it. Just don't touch those features. Adobe isn't necessarily putting a gun to your head (so to speak) and saying you HAVE to use those AI features. And for the record, I HATE AI for the most part, so I'm not going to use it. It's like the Beta that came out for Photoshop for Generative AI. People are going to say 'oh but it will have its uses', but from what I've seen so far, it's taking away the creative thought that you as the photographer would need to make, so I'm never going to touch it even if it's there.

This is one of the most informative video related to photo editing I've been watching so far. It is not really about Lightroom. I believed that it is software agnostic knowledge about colors in general. 1) Content. Wow. I've learned so much. I'm a hobbyist, but after that video I've realized that I know nothing about colors. I would like to "print" that video and put it on the wall next to my desk. The bad thing is that now I would like to re-edit hundreds of photos I was editing "mechanically" ;-) 2) Video quality wise, it is almost perfect, audio/voice, edit - top quality. Camera was missing a focus a few times but it does not matter at all - content always wins! 3) I'm finding the video really unique in the on YT. I was able to find your channel just last week. I need invest some time and explore your past videos! Thank you very much Todd. Please continue. I'm more that sure that it will be appreciated and I hope that YT platform is and will work for you.

One of the first time I actually learned something regarding to color editing. Thank you so much Todd! 😀

Appreciate your help in sorting all this out. It's so important to reproduce the striking colors seen in real life! You've helped me yet again!

I thought I was pretty proficient in Lightroom but there were things I learned here, very clearly explained without rushing. One thing from the start about colour settings, I couldn’t find the camera settings option although there were lots of effects options. However the camera setting was in the Preferences route so I was able to load my different camera bodies instead of Adobe which is great, so thank you.

This is the best video I’ve seen in a long time - so practical - thanks

I've been a Nikon & Lr user now for a few years > only very recently switched to Fujifilm. Just watching this video and have found it extremely useful and it has altered the way I edit .... thank you

Really good tutorial, calm and really understandable! loved the part about reducing the complexity of color to help the viewer focus on the subject! Thank you! :)

Excellent and informative video - a lot of aspects of Lightroom classic that I had not appreciated. Many thanks

Excellent breakdown! Nicely explained and good pacing. Thank you.

You have some serious skills. Thanks for sharing the knowledge😊🙏🏼

Absolutely brilliant video Scott , so helpful . I will have a whole new editing approach from now on

This video was fantastic!! Thank you! You really helped me understand color grading better.

Thank you))

I've learnt a great deal about colour in this video, thanks Todd. Can't wait to try these tips out.

One of your best tip videos Todd and an excellent mini guide to adjusting and refining color! You also addressed using camera matching profiles which makes a big difference and hardly anyone addresses this critical first step in the edit process. Thanks Todd for an excellent tips and info. One question, I often try to use the free Linear Camera Profiles from Tony Kuyper to get try and get a good starting point; however, most of the time I don’t like the results. Have you used linear profiles and do you have any thoughts on using them?

Thank you, this is an excellent tutorial. I have watched a fair number videos on colour, a few have been really useful but this definitely tops them. The negative luminance tip is great, I have often struggled to achieve a natural green in flora which I am happy with.

Learnt so much. Thank you

Masterclass! Thanks Todd.

Well done Todd. Thank you!

Helpful and good advices; thanks. Colour is a complicated topic in image editing.

Thank you for explaining so clearly.

Wow, your detail is pretty amazing in this video. Thank you for help!

Lots of great tips. Thank you!

Thanks for this video - it was very insightful and helpful. I’ve got a bunch of people to share it with.

You have a great way of demonstrating the whys and hows of doing things, Todd. I've used LR for many years but upon watching the video a couple of times and experimenting with a few of the "new to me" things you mentioned, I see some interesting ways to improve my developing routines. Thanks much!

This was excellent. Thank you.

Excellent tutorial Todd. Thanks.

Fantastic video!❤ No only one tip, but all of them sooo helpful..!!! Thank you so much!

@dominey

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Great vid, as usual. Validates what I have learned on my own, but wish I knew years ago. This style of editing is why I left Adobe and now use Capture One. Thanks Todd.

You explain everything so clearly....very instructive. I definitly subscribe to your channel

Thanks for a really good tutorial. I happen to use Capture One, but many of the principles apply whichever program one uses.

Great Video Todd! Very helpful.

super useful video, thank you Todd

Couldn’t agree more 😊 Keep up the good work 😊

Fabulous tips. Thank you so much😁

Another excellent tutorial! Thank you.

Thank you for all these Tipps! They are great!

wow. thank you. so many effective advices, and all easily explained!

great video, as always!

Love the way you explain things. Great video

Excellent video Todd. Many thanks for sharing.

Very useful info, thanks. I've been trying to get my head around colour grading for a while and generally finding that I don't know what I'm doing, although I did figure out the colour opposites affecting the colours as you mentioned, so I got that right. The calibration looks more instinctive to me so I'll be experimenting with that. Thanks again.

very informative and well explained, thanks!

this was the tutorial I needed to see...!!

Thank you for the amazing video!!! Simple and very informative 🙌🏻

Nice one, Todd!

An excellent video, particularly point 9 thanks!

Great information

Excellent video.

very informative and useful

Wish I had discovered your videos years ago!

Super friendly & engaging video, thanks! A couple comments: when you recommend editing in b&w w/o color, you click the BW button, but that changes the color profile to Adobe Monochrome, which has a TOTALLY DIFFERENT tonal map-so edits you make there will make no sense tonally when you switch back to the camera matching profile. Instead, you should just set the desaturation to -100, make your edits, & then set Sat back to 0. Next, the calibration panel (formerly Camera Calibration) is there as a stopgap in case there are no camera matching profiles, like with unsupported cameras or jpegs w/o metadata. If there is a camera matching profile, choose that & your image is correctly calibrated, & all you're doing by messing w/those sliders is breaking the profile. Of course there's lots of ways to skin a cat & you can get something nice looking by randomly moving sliders all around-but imho folks would be better using the Color Mixer / Temp/Tent / Color Grading / Color Curve tools, since that's what they're meant for ... & using tools in ways they aren't intended to be used can bite you; the calibration tool, for example, is excluded when using masks. Also, when you warn peeps against using the global saturation slider, that's essentially what the calibration Sat sliders are, so mixed messages there.

I use the camera calibration sliders a lot, Once I understood how they work... I don't touch the global saturation/vibrance any more as I feel they aren't needed... If I need to fine tune a color I'll use the HSL panel to do that works great. Each image I dial up something different as no 2 images are the same... I don't go over board, I start with Green, then Red, and Blue... Just a little plus the tone curve to add or subtract contrast...Don't use the global contrast slider anymore either... Tone curve is more powerful way to control contrast along with the brightness slider can really make things punch as much as I want depending on the image.

Great content! I hope someday LrC will add Curves with the Lab colour model like in Affinity where it switches momentarily to Lab for the adjustment... Lab is so much more powerful when it comes to luminance adjustments

Nice video 😂❤❤

IMO, WB ain’t simple. Great tips, especially doing tonal/contrast/clarity edits in BW. Thank you.

for the midnight shot in Iceland, what did you set your camera white balance to, so that your camera didn’t try to correct it in your original raw file?

Could anyone comment on why my LR panel would have "Auto" B&W" and "HDR" as the options instead of "Color" and "Black & White" like his screen does (and it seems everyone else's)?? I can switch to black and white to edit, but then get messed up getting back to my color view. Thank you for any insight!

I'm new to digital what's you opinion on wich program that I shstart with ?

4:35 But why do you think that colors should not influence decisions on the lightness/contrasts of the whole photo? Yellow looks best in light areas, cold colors are deeper in shadow areas. Not to say that the black and white photos naturally tend to be more contrasty.

You must live near to where I do based on your shots you edited.