Lightroom makes photo-high-light levels richer

Lightroom makes photo-high-light levels richer

1, adjust the "basic" panel in the "White color levels"

For the photo, we need to get the brightest part of the screen (white clouds) near the right side of the histogram, so we need to use the "white color" instead of the "highlight". The specific operation method is: Pull the "white level" slider to the right (can also directly input positive values), while observing the histogram, so that the high light area close to the right side of the histogram, but does not produce overflow.

Here's a tip: there's a small triangle in the upper-right corner of the straight square. When the triangle does not have any color, the histogram does not overflow, when the triangle appears red, blue or green, indicating the corresponding color channel overflow, when the triangle becomes white, the three color channels are overflow. The small triangle in the upper-left corner of the histogram shows an overflow in the dark (the dark part of the image overflows).

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2, adjust the "tonal curve" panel in the "bright tone"

Let's go back to the original piece--lightroom all the tweaks to the photos are non-destructive, which means you can always go back to any of the previous steps (even if you've turned off the software and turned it on again). In fact, all of the actions you do in Lightroom are a separate tag that doesn't really work on the original file until you have the output. So as long as you don't replace the original file with the output of the new file (and you shouldn't), you can rewrite the edits you've done in the future at any time.

Anyway, this time I'm going to use the tonal curve to adjust the photo. Lightroom's "tonal curves" are similar to those in Photoshop, but each has its own characteristics. For example, Lightroom divides the curve segments of a photograph into "highlights", "bright tones", "dark tones", and "shadow" four parts. This division does not actually affect the function of the curve, but more convenient for the photographer to understand.

When adjusting the "light tone", the same reference to the small triangle in the upper right corner of the straight square to ensure that there is no overflow.

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3, adjust the "tonal curve" panel in the "High light"

Back to the original piece, this time we're going to try the last tool-the "high Light" curve.

The difference between the "high light" curve and the "bright tone" curve is that the former affects a smaller range. In Lightroom, "light tone" refers to most of the upper part of the curve (almost 2/3 parts), whereas "highlight" refers to the brightest part of the light adjustment area.