Lightroom Transformations: Realizing your vision with Adobe Lightroom plus Photoshop, First Edition (SHARLA SORGE's Library) by Martin Evening

Author:Martin Evening
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 2016-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

4. In this final step, I went to Tone Curve and adjusted the Highlights, Lights, Darks and Shadows sliders to produce the tone curve shape shown here. I also adjusted the shadows tone range split point (circled), dragging this to the left so that the curve was steepened at the bottom end of the tone range. This refinement added a subtle kick to the shadow tones.

Tone range split point refinements

When you edit the tone curve, as you make the curve shape steeper this increases the contrast, and as you make the curve shape shallower it flattens the contrast. In the previous example, the tone curve was made steeper from the Shadows zone to the Lights but became shallower from the Lights to the Highlights zone. I also dragged the Shadows tone range split point fully to the left, and this caused the tone curve to rise more steeply from the darkest point. This meant the contrast increased sharply at the shadow end of the tone curve, with the contrast increase remaining continuous through the midtone-to-light areas. The contrast increase then began to drop off and became softer in the lightest areas. When I am editing a landscape photograph and I want to add more cloud contrast, I will sometimes add a Tone Curve adjustment and drag the Highlights slider to the right to lighten but also drag the Highlights tone range split point slider to the right as well. This can give a little kick to the highlights, adding more contrast to the clouds. With studio fashion or portrait photographs, I find it helps to apply a tone curve where contrast is added evenly to the shadows and the highlights, and I’ll then push the Shadows and Highlights tone range split point sliders to their extremes. This applies a kick to the shadows and highlights, but with no midtone contrast boost, because this adjustment preserves a flat curve shape for the midtones (see Figure 3.8). You will find that by using the four Region sliders, you have plenty of control to manipulate the tone curve shape, and the three tone range split point sliders offer further fine-tuning control over the tone curve.

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