I’m colourblind (reds/greens/blues) and really struggled with editing as my earlier images were really saturated, I would bump up the colour until I could see them pop but by that point it was way too much. Nowadays I do all of my local adjustments and then when I feel my image is finished I desaturate the whole image. This seems to have been working for me but obviously it will desaturate the whole image and not just specific areas etc. What you have just demonstrated will be so much easier for me to edit my images. Thanks
changing the value of the RGB pixels as a whole that make up the image instead of just changing that individual color. Each color in an image is made up of red, green, and blue. These adjustments effect every pixel on the image, not just the solid colors.
Well done, Alex, and thank you. That wasn't too many images and it wasn't too much information; it was just reinforcing the same principle as an aid to absorbing that information. You got the balance just right. Subbed. Now I'm off to turn the blue slider up in all my old edits...!
Really amazing tutorial and explanation of what you're doing and why, seeing the befores and afters were really useful and you provided a really nice analysis of how this will improve our photography more naturally - thank you and great work!
Pushing all the colors in the calibration tool way up and then fine tuning with the HSL tool seems to open a lot more possibilities since the HSL tool has so many sliders for different colors and one has control of hue, saturation and luminance in one convenient panel. I have wondered for a long time what the calibration panel was for but the Adobe literature was very vague. Thanks for your hard work!
I always use the Calibration tab on my portraits/street/landscape but never thought of going full saturation on those colors. This "blue trick" actually blew me away!! WHAT ?!?! Hats off to you man! Thanks for this one! P.S. dope Instagram feed Peace!
Wow. Just like that ? Colors just pop up and image get lively. No sky rocket science. You just tell us plain and simple and it's working. Thank you so much I'm subscribing
man.. this is fascinating totally new concept for me - and i've been using LR for a long time upvoted - new sub - belled and saved this vid in my favorites
This man should have more subscribers. I think, his explanation is very simple and understable. Anyway, Im one of your subscriber now. Keep up the great work and tutorials.😇👍
After 20 videos watched about color grading and preset plus a bit a frustration I finally found a real good explanation, thank you for your professionalism and the quality of your work, +1 follower
@@AlexArmitage the calibration panel is primarily used in situations where colors must remain consistent between different cameras. Interestingly though, if you’ve ever used a color passport, the slider that always seems to increase in saturation is that blue slider. It makes me think that perhaps most sensors out there today slightly under saturate the blues for whatever reason...
I have been using Lightroom for a long time and without your video, I likely would not have tried this. It works great! I went back in to a bunch of old images and tried it, worked on them all. Thanks for the tip!
I've been using LR since 1.0 and have been shooting food for the last 10 years. Color in food is very simple in the fact that there is really no interpretation, a strawberry is red, make it red. In the last 7 months I've gotten into landscapes and apart from landscape photography techniques being the polar opposite of food, my biggest struggle has been with editing landscapes in LR. I'm using and learning so much more now what it can do and honestly, this calibration video blew me away. I'm eager to go back and 're-edit' all the shots I've taken to this point, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for taking the time to comment and let me know Chris. I have no idea what shooting food is like although I did take some pictures of some pizza once haha. Some photos it will certainly look better than others!
Wow! I've never, ever, used the calibration tool. Facepalm. Thanks so much for posting this!! So simple, so effective. Now going back through some old photos that just didn't pop like I wanted them too. Mind blown.
Thanks for reminding us that these tools are there in Lightroom Classic. Like many others, I equated that functionality with some obscure process that might apply to baselining and color correcting a camera lens and camera sensor.
This is phenomenal! Luckily your article popped up on my Google Now homepage. I've been playing around with Calibration the last couple of months and saw that there was something there but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Thank you so much for this! I'm excited to use this in my images. Keep up the great work!
Thanks millions of times. I am experiencing a great change in my photo editing when I applied what you said to my photos. What you said here makes my photo pop up and alive. Thanks again for your information.
I started watching your video and paused it after the first image you showed, fired up my LR and tried your increased "blue saturation" method on the loaded image opened in my LR and was I ever surprised. I finished watching your video and am going to go back to some of my favorites and try your method on them. Thank you for this great video. You're "liked" and I'm "subscribed". Have a great day.
OMG Alex! this is an amazing eye-opener for me! I just did this with one of my images, that I just couldn't make 'sing' and wow the difference is amazing, just pushing the blue calibration slider. Only came across your site two days ago and subscribed straight away. Love your calm, quiet approach to all your work. Keep it up, Jules
Hi! I just discovered your channel. I'm trying to use this module from a few month. I have difficulties to get its logic. You helped me a bit in this direction. So thank you very much.
Yoooooo... this is my first comment ever on any videos but this time I had to. I could not watch and not leaving a comment. Thank you so much Alex. You just changed my game, now my pictures will look more vibrant and pleasant! Thanks again!
I also don't comment very much on youtube videos so I know the feeling! That said I'm glad it happened to be this one and thank you for taking the time to let me know it helped.
Watching this over my oatmeal breakfast this morning. Makes my day a win already as I learned something new and exciting! Thank you for that! Really curious to see what it does to my already edited Fuji images.... Well done on your calm and clear manner of explaining btw. Subbed immediately :)
@@AlexArmitage I’ll tag you when I make a tutorial how to calibrate the perfect oatmeal, adding just the right amount of ‘pop’ to it ;) Thnx again and stay safe these days! Cheers from Switzerlabd
Watched this last night and will have a try today with a few photos I took last week in less than flattering light. Thanks for presenting it in such a way that I can actually have the sound on. Will spread the word on the Photography forum I frequent and look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Hah. I’m not sure what sounds I’m making that others aren’t but it is nice to know it’s digestible :) what forum is that if you don’t mind me asking Rich? Thanks again for the support!
@@AlexArmitage Its this one Alex, www.talkphotography.co.uk/ In fact I have already mentioned your video explaining Calibration Regarding the sound its your nice calm tone rather than the shouting excitable style that seems so popular these days.
Well, the Calibration tool is available in ACR also. Now, if you used PS, you could crank the Red saturation all the way up and then control it with Blend IF. Also, the only way to keep colors from polluting other colors in the wheel is to use the LAB color space. Good video for LR users.
I assumed most people who use ACR know that basically anything Lightroom does it can do. Seems most of the people who still use ACR for their workflow can use Lightroom interchangeably. Thanks for the comment Dave!
Im surprised you only have 901 subs! Great video, great topic, great examples, love the intro too. Im excited for you to see how far you can take this channel. Keep it up! You've earned my sub!
Gotta start somewhere! Thanks for the compliment. I too am excited to see where things go, however I'm not here for quantity. I'd much rather have quality followers that take the time to interact and say hello :)
Well presented. I have always used the blue calibration slider to the right, to make the image pop. Only difference is I did this as the last adjustment. Showing me to do it first was "ok" hadn't thought of that . Going to do this now thanks to your video.
I am gonna try this. This might be the reason to its effect. The edit affects mainly uv light more in the bright area of a picture. Since there is UV (in the blue wavelength spectrum side) light in the daylight, when saturating the blue, it affects it the most
I use the calibration for few years and really like to use with my canon 6d, using -30 Hue and +40 on the blue channel, i like the skin tone a little pinksh. Great video makes me think more about the uses, Keep going!
Unlock this feature in Lightroom CC/Mobile!! ruclips.net/video/Gt6Z7v1nKX8/видео.html
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5 years I have been using lightroom and never bothered one bit on this calibration tool, after seeing this - mind blown. Liked and Subscribed!
Welcome Dan and thank you!
Same here!
Same!
I always wondered what that panel was for but never cared to look into it. I’m glad this popped up in my feed. Thanks for this!
Anytime Ben, thanks for taking the time to comment :)
Lol, that’s definitely NOT what that panel is for.
@@Seanonyoutube who cares? it's given a few images of mine an extra pop that I didn't think possible
I’m colourblind (reds/greens/blues) and really struggled with editing as my earlier images were really saturated, I would bump up the colour until I could see them pop but by that point it was way too much. Nowadays I do all of my local adjustments and then when I feel my image is finished I desaturate the whole image. This seems to have been working for me but obviously it will desaturate the whole image and not just specific areas etc. What you have just demonstrated will be so much easier for me to edit my images. Thanks
Stevie, I can't imagine trying to edit with any form of colorblindness, it's awesome to hear this helped! Thanks for letting me know.
Now someone needs to make a video on what this is actually doing!
changing the value of the RGB pixels as a whole that make up the image instead of just changing that individual color.
Each color in an image is made up of red, green, and blue. These adjustments effect every pixel on the image, not just the solid colors.
@@apieceofenergy but changing them how?
Your description could fit even the basic adjustments like levels and curves.
Well done, Alex, and thank you. That wasn't too many images and it wasn't too much information; it was just reinforcing the same principle as an aid to absorbing that information. You got the balance just right. Subbed.
Now I'm off to turn the blue slider up in all my old edits...!
You might have to readjust a few things if you turn the slider up after your edits, so keep that in mind! And thanks for the sub :)
@@AlexArmitage I figured that might be the case. :D
I guess this is the most revolutionary technique I have come across recently, at least for myself.
I went back to a couple of photos I just took and tried this on them. I can't believe the extra little pop I'm getting with the colors!
Really amazing tutorial and explanation of what you're doing and why, seeing the befores and afters were really useful and you provided a really nice analysis of how this will improve our photography more naturally - thank you and great work!
You're very welcome!
Yes I did change my editing forever. Tried it with some photos from a mountain trip -> mind blowing!
Awesome :) Glad it helped
Pushing all the colors in the calibration tool way up and then fine tuning with the HSL tool seems to open a lot more possibilities since the HSL tool has so many sliders for different colors and one has control of hue, saturation and luminance in one convenient panel. I have wondered for a long time what the calibration panel was for but the Adobe literature was very vague. Thanks for your hard work!
I'm addicted to this kind of videos
I always use the Calibration tab on my portraits/street/landscape but never thought of going full saturation on those colors. This "blue trick" actually blew me away!! WHAT ?!?!
Hats off to you man!
Thanks for this one!
P.S. dope Instagram feed
Peace!
Thanks Adrian! I really wasn't exaggerating when I said I changed my editing flow forever.
Excellent tutorial ! This will be an eyeopener to those discovering this powerful creative tool through this video.
Wow. Just like that ? Colors just pop up and image get lively. No sky rocket science. You just tell us plain and simple and it's working. Thank you so much I'm subscribing
Hey thanks Gilbert and welcome :) Not sure i'll have any other tips quite this straight forward but here is hoping!
man.. this is fascinating
totally new concept for me - and i've been using LR for a long time
upvoted - new sub - belled
and saved this vid in my favorites
Omg so much pressure! Haha. Thank you and I'm glad it's actually helping people.
Same here! Thanks for the tips! 👍🏽
This man should have more subscribers. I think, his explanation is very simple and understable. Anyway, Im one of your subscriber now. Keep up the great work and tutorials.😇👍
Welcome Sherwin! Thank you so much :)
Really interesting and effective.
After 20 videos watched about color grading and preset plus a bit a frustration I finally found a real good explanation, thank you for your professionalism and the quality of your work, +1 follower
Hey ty and welcome!
That’s a real revelation , thank you
I didn't know what the calibration panel was used for until I watched this video, Thanks Alex
Not quite sure I even use it for what it's "meant" for haha but it does some impressive stuff!
7:16 lol, it’s *exactly* is if you’re adding saturation to that area. You just made the rocks blue.
It's certainly increasing the saturation, no doubt about that.
@@AlexArmitage the calibration panel is primarily used in situations where colors must remain consistent between different cameras. Interestingly though, if you’ve ever used a color passport, the slider that always seems to increase in saturation is that blue slider. It makes me think that perhaps most sensors out there today slightly under saturate the blues for whatever reason...
I have been using Lightroom for a long time and without your video, I likely would not have tried this. It works great! I went back in to a bunch of old images and tried it, worked on them all. Thanks for the tip!
My hopes was to show even people who've edited for years might be missing out. I certainly was when I discovered it. Thanks for the comment!
Been using the calibration panel for years. I noticed long ago how it worked so much better because it's so subtle at adding color.
calibration mixed with WB, split toning, curves and... more color grading stuff xD
I had no idea how powerful that too is. Thanks!
I've been using LR since 1.0 and have been shooting food for the last 10 years. Color in food is very simple in the fact that there is really no interpretation, a strawberry is red, make it red. In the last 7 months I've gotten into landscapes and apart from landscape photography techniques being the polar opposite of food, my biggest struggle has been with editing landscapes in LR. I'm using and learning so much more now what it can do and honestly, this calibration video blew me away. I'm eager to go back and 're-edit' all the shots I've taken to this point, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for taking the time to comment and let me know Chris. I have no idea what shooting food is like although I did take some pictures of some pizza once haha. Some photos it will certainly look better than others!
Wow! I've never, ever, used the calibration tool. Facepalm. Thanks so much for posting this!! So simple, so effective. Now going back through some old photos that just didn't pop like I wanted them too. Mind blown.
Hey it's ok, most people haven't :) Thank you Allen
Thanks for reminding us that these tools are there in Lightroom Classic. Like many others, I equated that functionality with some obscure process that might apply to baselining and color correcting a camera lens and camera sensor.
I might not be able to tell you exactly what's going on, just that it can be useful! Haha. Thanks John
Wish they had calibration in Lightroom CC cause I edit all my pics off my iPad Pro :(
Just create a profile in Lightroom CC with the changes at calibration tool and export & import
This is the first time I've ever actually written something down when watching a RUclips lightroom tip. Awesome stuff. Funny intro too.
Hey thank you :)
This is phenomenal! Luckily your article popped up on my Google Now homepage. I've been playing around with Calibration the last couple of months and saw that there was something there but couldn't quite put my finger on it. Thank you so much for this! I'm excited to use this in my images. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Tim! I'd love to hear how it turns out.
Great Video! Thank you! I never knew what the calibration tab in LR did.
Thanks millions of times. I am experiencing a great change in my photo editing when I applied what you said to my photos. What you said here makes my photo pop up and alive. Thanks again for your information.
Anytime and thanks for taking the time to comment!
I’ve been using Lightroom for 7 years and never knew this was a thing at all. Thank you for this!
It's like a hidden gem. Thanks Colton!
Good tutorial! I love learning new tips!
I started watching your video and paused it after the first image you showed, fired up my LR and tried your increased "blue saturation" method on the loaded image opened in my LR and was I ever surprised. I finished watching your video and am going to go back to some of my favorites and try your method on them. Thank you for this great video. You're "liked" and I'm "subscribed". Have a great day.
Welcome Peter and thank you for such kind words! Glad it had a positive affect on your images.
Basically, adding blue broadband and reducing blue narrowband if required. Nice idea, good video.
Yes, exactly! Thanks
Cool feature man, i didn't tried it yet.Thank u.
Excellent quality video. Great title opener! Outstanding sound quality. A pleasure to watch and listen too! Thanks!
Wow thanks Scott! Much appreciated :)
OMG Alex! this is an amazing eye-opener for me! I just did this with one of my images, that I just couldn't make 'sing' and wow the difference is amazing, just pushing the blue calibration slider. Only came across your site two days ago and subscribed straight away. Love your calm, quiet approach to all your work. Keep it up, Jules
This is great to hear Julie and thank you so much! It really can do magic in some photos. Glad it worked for yours.
Increase the saturation too 100 in calibration and reduce a bit of blues from HSL. "This will change your editing forever".
dude, amazing content!!
Thanks Hamza :)
This one is a game changer! Thank you!!
Excellent tutorial and really well explained. Thank you Alex.
Hi! I just discovered your channel. I'm trying to use this module from a few month. I have difficulties to get its logic. You helped me a bit in this direction. So thank you very much.
Excellent tutorial. Easy to learn and super useful.
this is cool! Thanks for showing!
interesting ill definitely experimenting with this more thank you
Yoooooo... this is my first comment ever on any videos but this time I had to. I could not watch and not leaving a comment. Thank you so much Alex. You just changed my game, now my pictures will look more vibrant and pleasant! Thanks again!
I also don't comment very much on youtube videos so I know the feeling! That said I'm glad it happened to be this one and thank you for taking the time to let me know it helped.
Watching this over my oatmeal breakfast this morning. Makes my day a win already as I learned something new and exciting! Thank you for that! Really curious to see what it does to my already edited Fuji images....
Well done on your calm and clear manner of explaining btw. Subbed immediately :)
Wow thank you and welcome. Now I want oatmeal but it's nearly 3am and I need to sleep :)
@@AlexArmitage I’ll tag you when I make a tutorial how to calibrate the perfect oatmeal, adding just the right amount of ‘pop’ to it ;)
Thnx again and stay safe these days! Cheers from Switzerlabd
Used this tool many times but never in such a simple and effective way. New Sub right here. Thank you!!
Hey thank you and welcome!
Watched this last night and will have a try today with a few photos I took last week in less than flattering light. Thanks for presenting it in such a way that I can actually have the sound on.
Will spread the word on the Photography forum I frequent and look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Hah. I’m not sure what sounds I’m making that others aren’t but it is nice to know it’s digestible :) what forum is that if you don’t mind me asking Rich? Thanks again for the support!
@@AlexArmitage Its this one Alex, www.talkphotography.co.uk/ In fact I have already mentioned your video explaining Calibration
Regarding the sound its your nice calm tone rather than the shouting excitable style that seems so popular these days.
Hugely helpful ❤️
omg...for years I never used Calibration. This was mind boggling
Very well done. Clear and to the point instruction. Take the time to do this....see what happens.
First time viewer of your videos and subscribed on the spot. Thanks for this awesome video
Wow thanks Christian and welcome!
What a high quality video. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dude this was great - really pops the image without the washing out if you crank the saturation. Very cool!
Thats the idea! Thank you
Your a legend.. cheers a lot..
Wow!...Just tried it and love this!....Thank you Alex!
Anytime! Thank you.
Years of using Lightroom and had never bothered to use it or try to understand it. Awesome video
Thanks Dave :)
Bravo! So useful 🙏
Very helpful. Thanks!
Very cool tip!
Very good use of my time watching this. Thank you
Excellent. Thank you for sharing the valuable information.
Absolute banger, I've been using it lately and it's an actual game changer 🤤
No click bait here! Haha
Lmao
Wow Alex that is amazing tried on a couple of my previous edits and what a difference thanks so much for the tip and very well delivered
Thanks Brian!
I've only recently begun experimenting with the Calibration tool in Lightroom, this was extremely insightful, thanks so much!
Thank you!
Hey Alex, great video. Your video poped up while i was searching on yt and I have to say it was very helpful, cant wait to give it a try. Thanks
Hey thanks so much Maxim and glad to help!
I'm 80 and found this good and easy to use. thanks
This is amazing! Im glad it was easy to digest.
Your tutorials are so fluent and easy to understand. Subbed and learning new things which is amazing! Keep on it my guy!
Hey thank you for the kind words :)
great info. thank you
Alex I love watching them as well.. Thank You for making them
Well, the Calibration tool is available in ACR also. Now, if you used PS, you could crank the Red saturation all the way up and then control it with Blend IF. Also, the only way to keep colors from polluting other colors in the wheel is to use the LAB color space. Good video for LR users.
I assumed most people who use ACR know that basically anything Lightroom does it can do. Seems most of the people who still use ACR for their workflow can use Lightroom interchangeably. Thanks for the comment Dave!
Im surprised you only have 901 subs! Great video, great topic, great examples, love the intro too. Im excited for you to see how far you can take this channel. Keep it up! You've earned my sub!
Gotta start somewhere! Thanks for the compliment. I too am excited to see where things go, however I'm not here for quantity. I'd much rather have quality followers that take the time to interact and say hello :)
Well presented. I have always used the blue calibration slider to the right, to make the image pop. Only difference is I did this as the last adjustment. Showing me to do it first was "ok" hadn't thought of that . Going to do this now thanks to your video.
Wow! Im surprised you learned something even if you were already using it. Thats great
This has really improved the colour performance in my photos.....thank you so much! Subscribed!
Thanks Richard and welcome!!
I subscribe before the video was finished. THANKS for the great information!!
Thanks Lydia and welcome!
Great tutorial Alex, well done. Impressed by your step by step explanation.
Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent!!!
I am gonna try this. This might be the reason to its effect. The edit affects mainly uv light more in the bright area of a picture. Since there is UV (in the blue wavelength spectrum side) light in the daylight, when saturating the blue, it affects it the most
Interesting! Maybe that's how it works then :)
I use the calibration for few years and really like to use with my canon 6d, using -30 Hue and +40 on the blue channel, i like the skin tone a little pinksh. Great video makes me think more about the uses, Keep going!
That’s the plan! Thank you :)
Thanks for this video. I went and did it on about 5 photos and it worked really well. Going to incorporate this in my workflow. Cheers and great work.
Thanks Jay!
Excellent video, Alex. Very helpful. Definitely subscribing. Keep it up!
Thanks Andy and welcome!
I didnt that your sky was too blue. I think it was perfect. Blue skies to me just make the whole picture pop more.
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Alex, I can't thank you enough for this video...
Applying this on a moderate scale to portraiture looks good too, thanks for the recommendation 🖤
Hey thats great to hear, quite a few people have asked about it
Thank you!
Amazing
Wow amazing technique
I touch it everyday but i was never aware of that . Thanks Alex you earn my sub.
Thank you and welcome!!
Great tip, cheers man. Liked and subscribed. Best of luck with your channel, great content 👍
Thank you!
Great video Alex. This was super insightful for me. Thanks and looking forward to seeing more videos!
Thanks Amanda!
This was excellent Alex, thank you
Thanks Ron!
you actually saved me making this video
Thank You!!!!
Thank you! Anytime
Wow this is fun, I am revisiting old shots and having a blast .
This means the world to me! Making a video that helps others enjoy photography or revisit things is why I'm here. Thanks for the comment
Thanks Alex for sharing this another great tip
Thanks Floyd!
Whoa. This is a great tip. And yes, this will change my editing forever, indeed!
I wasn't exaggerating with my title! Thanks Claudia
Excellent video! I normally ignore the calibration panel: i won't make that mistake anymore! Thank you!
That was me for years, it's a game changer in my opinion. You're welcome!
thanks man !!