Very helpful! Thank You! Keep the lightroom tips coming!

Great Video Greg as always, technical made simple - I've been using this tool for a while and have some cool results - its always a bit trial and error but so is life

I'm a lightroom newbie. I found this fascinating and very worthwhile. Thank you!

Thanks Greg...I had a photo that I was really having difficulty bringing out some deeper colour in the sky without creating some unwanted artifacts. Just tried using the Camera Calibration sliders and actually brought down the HSL saturation and that worked with 100% better results. Excellent tip that I likely would never have considered!

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome! It’s a game changer, I use this trick a lot.

OMG just had a play with this, WHAT a difference........................Thank you

Great video. For your fall colour images, the blue saturation slider can often make a big difference...it can add a pop that really works. It's one reason why calibration is at the top of my develop module workflow.

Thank you! Nice to see the comparison!! Very helpful!!

Thank you. Very clear explanation of Calibration.🤓

Good tip. I actually do this before any other adjustments. It really shouldn’t be the last menu in Lightroom!

Before I start editing I always switch Adobe standard to something else. You always get so many cool nuances in the colors

Thanks. I actually knew about this but hardly ever used it (apart from some testing). Next images I process I will make sure to use it... when it comes so highly recommend ;)

Fantastic video! I had no idea different tools would introduce banding and noise and others wouldn't! I don't mess with camera calibration often, but now I will, for sure. Damn. Now I have to reedit a bunch of images. Thanks! hah

Great information, usually I use the adobe standard drop down menu. I will start trying this. Thanks.

playing with hue in cam calibration is often extremely helpful to give picture a character, especially in a cinematic way One can also use it for movie files to easily grade them

Greg--I had never seen any of your videos before. Just wanted you to know that this one is really good, and very helpful. I subscribed and I'll look forward to seeing more. Thanks.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

That’s great, thanks!

I've been changing to camera standard for all my images and finding over saturation in the reds and oranges. From now on I'll stick to Adobe standard and only change the profile when it needs it. Thank you for pointing this out

Great video, keep it up.❤️

I had totally ignored this feature in LR until I saw your video. Thanks.

Btw, the camera calibration panel is sort of like the channel mixer in photoshop. The hue sliders are also very effective for subtly tweaking the colors.

This was very good. It inspired me to try it with some of my photos in Lightroom and I would definitely like to see more videos like this.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

That’s great, thanks for the feedback!

Thanks, Greg! Great tip and video. It's always been a panel that I've always forgotten about. I'll need to try incorporating it more into my workflow. Cheers and all the best in 2018!

Hi Greg. New sub here. What a great creative tool this is. I'll definitely be trying it with my landscapes from now on. Going to work my way through your back catalogue and if this tutorial is anything to go by, I'm going to learn a hell of a lot about post processing! Thanks for sharing.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Grab some popcorn, I’ve got a lot of videos!

FWIW , i have been using this on calibration to match nikon reds close to cannon's red primary -5 hue +5 sat, Green Primary +5 hue +5 sat . Works most of the times for me , YMMV!

This was very informative. I honestly never thought of using such panel in lightroom

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Most underused option in Lightroom.

Well done, Greg! Rarely use but will try

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Jack!

Thank you!

great video! My favorite trick is to bump up the saturation and then dial down the vibrance by half as much.

@tomwd.2825

6 жыл бұрын

John Jansson try it vice versa

My version of Lr has the profile options inside the Basic mode. Anyway.. wow! thank you so much!

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Profiles have recently been updated, but it does not affect the concepts shown here.

Well, of course, vibrance will have that effect if you crank it up to 86%. Vibrance is actually a smarter version of saturation. It brings out the colors with less saturation, while preventing the already saturated colors from getting overcooked (so to speak).

brilliant

Good to know - thanks for the heads up. Wondering what effect it has to noise and shadows if you push exposure up or down compared to HSL or saturation

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

The biggest effect I see is to color, through is has some nice benefits in luminosity. The first sign of pushing too far is overly-punchy color in a particular hue.

Now I realise it's just another approach I shall give it a look. I always thought it was a one time way to calibrate/screw up your camera settings 🙂

Thank you.

the blue slider is good for people! ;)

I sadly have never used that part of LR. I definitely need to give it a try. Thanks for the video!

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Best kept secret in LR.

@markguentert5382

4 жыл бұрын

@@gregbenzphotography Amazing tool, works wonderfully. Is there a Photoshop equivalent?

@gregbenzphotography

4 жыл бұрын

It is part of ACR, but you’ll need to be working with a camera RAW Smart Object or opening the RAW. Do not use this on a rasterized layer, the quality is vastly better at the RAW stage.

@markguentert5382

4 жыл бұрын

@@gregbenzphotography I can't seem to find the appropriate tool in ACR?

As I look at your version of Lightroom it is different from what I have on my monitor. My latest CC version has Version 5 and NO profile option. So, what do I have to do to find that option? Thanks

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Newer versions of LR have moved the profile dropdown options to the top of the Develop options (above white balance).

Excellent! I never thought about touching this panel. At which point of your editing process do you play with camera calibration? Before jumping into Photoshop? After in Camera Raw?

@gregbenzphotography

Жыл бұрын

Both at times, but usually early in the process

Rodeo Beach! Great spot.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely.

You say you predominantly use the red and green saturation sliders and mostly have little use for the blue saturation slider. For me (and some others) it's just the other way round! Cranking up the blue saturation is very universally usable since it makes all colors more "pop" and brighter! (And if some color gets too strong or too unnatural by that, you can correct it via the HSL panel.)

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Very image dependent. I just tend to find the blue slider frequently causes problems with the blue edges of sunsets. Always best to try them all, as the output is hard to predict.

I calibrate my camera with each lens I have and setup color profiles in Lr as presets. I also calibrate my monitors for prints. I use SpyderCHECKR 24 and Spyder5Express.

Thank for the turtorial. I would like to give 5 stars to your image instead of two stars. Can we say the that profiles decides the brightness and shadow while WB decides the color?

@gregbenzphotography

3 жыл бұрын

My stars? My ratings are all over. 1-2 stars really is just my way of flagging original images I want to work on, not an evaluation of the image. Finished images are 3-5 stars for me. It's more about the workflow and finding images than an artistic assessment. Profiles in LR are LUTs (lookup tables). They can (and do) affect both tone and color. For that reason, best to try them early in the process, because they affect everything else. White balance is of course focused on color.

@shengyetang7220

3 жыл бұрын

@@gregbenzphotography Thanks for the explanation.

My question actually is when to use this instead of hsl because hsl can do the things that camera calibration can do

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

I frequently use both, but start with Camera Calibration and then use HSL if I need a color-specific change. CamCal is much more general in its color impact, more natural, and less prone to banding.

there is no "profile" option in the Camera Calibration tab why is that could it be my camera

@gregbenzphotography

4 жыл бұрын

More recent versions of LR moved that option to the top by white balance. Usage is the same.

Oh my! What's your keyboard?? I love the sound of the strokes plz plz plz is it apple keyboard that comes with the imac???

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! I have a 2018 MacBook Pro, and an external Apple keyboard (wired, probably 8 years old or so). This video probably the external.

@medqenmedness229

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregbenzphotography thanks a lot, on a lookout for a mac keyboard i want *_*

@medqenmedness229

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregbenzphotography btw today i started using the calibration panel more, i found out that its so powerful that only way to achieve those neon hipster look that they get nowadays is with this panel, without it, picture doesn't come up as desired... I thank you for the vid with this finding :)

PLEASE.. can you make a tutorial explaining how to get rid of those light flares? I got tons of them while using ND filters, specially the ones with more than 10 stops.

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

What flare are you seeing? Sounds like light leaking around a square filter. Be sure it is light-tight (black tape can help). And be sure the viewfinder eyepiece is covered if you have an optical viewfinder.

@lacriptadelermitano1664

5 жыл бұрын

In your photo? There imgur.com/a/zwDnsfC And in my photo... imgur.com/a/zwDnsfC I`m tired of this. I put duct tape in the viewfinder and the filter holder. And cover the camera with black clothes. I don't know what to do.

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Gotcha. Just need to clone that out in post.

I enjoyed the tips TY, I have played around with it a few times but same as jens hardly used it, it would have been good though if you had used a photo with a lot of greens in though maybe a forest or something?

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

You can certainly use the same technique to boost forest greens.

@usma70b1

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Barrett 6

Lens correction and camera calibration is the first thing you do. So you have the settings of your camera.

Great tips but I just want you to know that not all camera brands are having different camera profiles like camera vivid or camera landscape. I have a Pentax and the only profile besides Adobe Standard are the Embedded profile.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Good to know, thanks!

@JohnMacLeanPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

Anki, are you working on JPG files, or RAW?

@AnkiSandinge

6 жыл бұрын

I'm working on RAW (dng) files but I have tested Pentax Raw fileformat PEF as well as JPG and there are no profiles else than Adobe Standard for PEF, Embedded for JPG and both Adobe standard and Embedded for DNG. I have also searched for pentax camera profiles and can't find any. I think it might be possible to make your own profiles for Lightroom that represents the different ones in the camera but I don't know how to do that.

@JohnMacLeanPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

Anki Sandinge gotcha! I shoot Canon and there’s about 6 options, however I use “profiles” I make with X-Rite Passport. They typically work better in most daylight situations than the canned ones. But if I’m shooting LED lit small stage shows I switch to the Camera Standard profile and the color renders much better.

After using capture one for last few years, this look just silly.

Happy new year Greg! You need to try X-rite Color Passport (xritephoto.com/colorchecker-passport-photo). The Adobe standard profile especially for Nikon is very bad. And the other options are trying to emulate the builtin camera profiles which other than neutral ones are bad anyway if you want an accurate capture as a starting point. In my case the Passport really helped to get more accurate an “clean” hues out of the box so to speak. the benefit is especially important with a delicate image like the one in the video when you need to do subtle adjustments and sometimes the tools available are ineffective or too brutal.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Same to you! X-Rite is a great tool, but I’m not necessarily referring to color accuracy. It’s about using the calibration system to boost color (which may be done for better accuracy or for creative reasons). Accuracy will help a truly fiery sky, but this technique may be used on more modest sunset nights too. Probably best to use both this technique and a calibration system like that. Ultimately depends on your own personal photography objectives.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the inspiration though, I’ve been meaning to try that out for years. Saw a good demo at ImagingUSA years back. Will order one today.

@cloudrazor3621

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it wasnt the video topic, i agree. But the tools in the camera calibration section are targeted to compensate for capture deficiency more than final image tunning. And i know you have an Nikon D850, i dont know if that image was taken with it, but me personally i never ever use the Adobe standard profile with an Nikon. The colors are more blended in with eachother and whatever white balance you use the neutral grays are somewhat sickly greenish. Its subtle, probably the 99% will never notice. As a starting point, the neutral and portrait are much much better at retaining what camera has captured. It was even an comparison years back but i have to search for it.

@cloudrazor3621

6 жыл бұрын

Also, try to use the Passport with Adobe’s own DNG editor, not with the X-rite software. You will get much better auto results and also you can tweak things.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Both approaches are good ideas for a wide variety of photography use. I just ordered the color checker, looking forward to giving it a spin.

Hi, I think your reply to niccoc1603 below is (and not being rude) a little of a body swerve as the video incompasses the camera calibration in Lightroom and also not trying to teach a duck how to suck eggs but you are starting with the Adobe standard camera calibration and that is way out as every cameras sensor reads slightily differently even cameras by the same maker/company, ie one 5D MKii sensor will see colour slightly differant to another. It is surley better to start with a conformative calibration by going down the user camera calibration road first? it is easy to do, takes less than 5 minutes and if you use the X-Rite Colorchecker passport to do it you no that your base colour will be the same starting point every time. As I say not being rude just getting my thoghts out there. Russ

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Calibration is great, and I encourage it. But it is not the point of this tutorial. I am showing an unintended way of using the calibration tab for a creative purpose, not for calibration. In other words, I am showing how to essentially hack/hijack it to do something Adobe probably didn’t intend. If you know how to calibrate, start from that point and then you can use the methods shown in the video to make creative adjustments as you like. A properly calibrated camera may give a perfect result in perfect result. But tweaking a (calibrated or not) RAW image may let you express much more, if you like.

Should go a bit deeper and explain how to create double-illuminant profile for your camera

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

This isn’t about calibration / profiling, but that would be another good tutorial, thanks.

@niccoc1603

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Benz yes that would be very interesting, especially since there is a lot of potential an very little understanding on the topic

Where's the Insane Color ?

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

I didn’t set up this demo to show the full limits. Many times it’s much more dramatic than this. Try it, it’s incredibly useful.

It bothers me that this is called camera calibration.

@gregbenzphotography

6 жыл бұрын

Well, that was Adobe’s intention, we’re just hijacking the feature for creative use.

@hautehussey

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Benz even adobes use for it really isn’t calibration.

that has nothing to do with a camera calibration.

@gregbenzphotography

5 жыл бұрын

Right, which is why the video is titled about color. It’s all about using the tool in a way that unlocks new capabilities.