Basic Tonal Control in Lightroom 1.1

by Colleen Wheeler
08/29/2007

Using Lightroom's Develop module, you can do a lot to bring out the best tonal qualities of your images. Lightroom has easy-to-use sliders that allow you to react to the Exposure, Highlight/Shadow, and Brightness/Contrast needs of your images.

In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, Mikkel Aaland gives you a lushly illustrated overview of how to use the sliders in the Lightroom Develop module to quickly, easily, and satisfyingly make a variety of technical and aesthetic improvements to your photos.

Download Lightroom 1.1 Basic Tonal Controls PDF (412KB)

Colleen Wheeler is an editor and writer at O'Reilly Media, where she helps bring to life fabulous books on digital photography, Photoshop, and other graphically inspired subjects.


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