I've been using Lightroom since it's inception, and this is one of the best videos I've come across. I'm a retired civilian army, photographer, and I really enjoyed this video. You can teach an old dog new tricks.
Todd, what a great video! Agree, colour is one of the hardest things to come to grips with in RAW editing, and you have just made it a good bit easier. Thank you.
I really like that you don't focus on Lightroom as much as the title of the video suggests. I really appreciate that you explain the concept behind each tip so that it's easy to transfer this to other software as well.
If I could download this video into my head I would. This has been hands down one of the most informative and educational/helpful videos on color I have ever seen. You have a very unique talent for teaching, it’s spectacular. I wish there was a second like button because I went back to the video a second time to like it and realized I already had.
Hey Todd, I rarely comment on RUclips and tutorial in general but I’ve been doing photography for two years and have watched hundreds of videos on the subject. I’ve experimented with all these options in Lightroom, but the way you explain them really stands out. It’s better than TikTokers who just repeat what they’ve seen without truly understanding it, and it’s less technical than some overly complex tutorials. You’ve helped me see these options in a new light, and I’m sure it will improve my editing in Lightroom. Thanks!
I LOVE your editing videos. One of the best I’ve found out of watching hundreds over the years. Love the tip about bending the colors together. Thank you!
Without a doubt the most useful video I have watched on color science. I have been taking and editing photos for about 3 years and have watched dozens, probably hundreds of videos on color correction in Lightroom and have yet to find anything 1/10th as valuable as this. Thanks for the very thorough tutorial!
I switched to linear profiles and not switching back! I used them with my EOS R and now with my R5….it’s completely changed how I edit in Lightroom! Put the linear profile on and click Auto to get my starting point! Saves so much time! I’ll be doing a basic video on them soon!
This is an absolutely amazing video. I've played around with the calibration sliders before, never got the hang of it and ran away from them, bcs I couldn't find a reason to use them. And now, while watching your video and having Lightroom open, I tried to apply some of those small subtle adjustments to my already edited photos and was blown away! Thank you very much for this highly educational video!
These are excellent tips, Todd. Thank you so much. I almost NEVER use Saturation in my photos and use Vibrance instead, because as you pointed out, when you use Saturation it applies it to EVERYTHING regardless of whether it's already saturated or not, but when you use Vibrance, it only applies it to the dull parts of the image. Love the tip especially about bending the colours together. Keep up the great work Todd.
I'm so happy that I've found this video! Color has been so illusive to me. I've been taking pictures for about 6 months and I"m finally starting to understand composition. I still take a thousand pictures to get one, but I can feel the ability somewhere inside me without necessarily being able to define it. Color , on the other hand, is a whole universe unto itself and feels completely unattainable to me. This video illustrates both how deep it goes, and that there is a path to understanding it. Thank you so much for this! Subbed, and when I'm done with this, I'm moving on to the rest of your videos :)
I have to admit, this video has added more ways to edit my images in ways I never knew. The tip to switch to b/w and adjust tones before going back to colors is something I will start adding to my workflow... Thanks Todd!!!
Has anyone told you you’re an amazing teacher? That’s a college course on color in less than 30 minutes……. I will be watching this many more times! Thanks so much for sharing.
This video along with 10 Step RAW Photo Processing / Where to Start, What To Do Next, Where to Finish, are very helpful. Sometimes I think that if you master the techniques well, plugins or programs related to luminosity and chromance are not necessary. Particularly sometimes I start from a neutral profile and Adobe's is better than Canon's neutral profile in my opinion.👍👍
Excellent video. I have been watching hundreds of video about color, but you really revealed new tips, and most importantly, you made me understand what it is underneath the profiles and slides. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for a truly excellent tutorial, Todd. The best treatment of color editing I've seen on YT over several years. Lots of useful tips and tricks -- I expect to return to this vid again and again. Cheers
Another great session in how to use the multitude of LR Classic editing tool. Looks like I'll have to watch this again a few times to digest so many new editing tools. Thanks Todd 😀
I thought I was pretty proficient in Lightroom but there were things I learned here, very clearly explained without rushing. One thing from the start about colour settings, I couldn’t find the camera settings option although there were lots of effects options. However the camera setting was in the Preferences route so I was able to load my different camera bodies instead of Adobe which is great, so thank you.
Excellent and clear, and so much more practical and encouraging than almost anything I have looked at when trying to wrap my head round this. Thanks Todd!
You are the first one to explain the difference between saturation and vibrance. And i watched a LOT of videos. It gets overlooked very often. Thanks for that! :)
Exceptionally well done, Todd. I thought I had a pretty good handle on color editing before watching your tutorial, and I'm glad to say I was wrong. There are any number of gems in your presentation that I'm anxious to put into practice. Kudos too for your teaching skills, especially your gift for making the complex simple and easy to grasp. Can't wait to see what you'll be doing as AI infiltrates more and more of the photo editing realm. Slainte !
That being said though, just because those AI features are there in that program, that doesn't necessarily mean you need to take advantage of them. If you find that you would be better served, by editing the normal way without using AI, well then do it. Just don't touch those features. Adobe isn't necessarily putting a gun to your head (so to speak) and saying you HAVE to use those AI features. And for the record, I HATE AI for the most part, so I'm not going to use it. It's like the Beta that came out for Photoshop for Generative AI. People are going to say 'oh but it will have its uses', but from what I've seen so far, it's taking away the creative thought that you as the photographer would need to make, so I'm never going to touch it even if it's there.
I've been struggling with color in Lightroom for so, so, so long. I would use presets and still the photos never came out the way I wanted them. This video literally opened my eyes and even without presets the photos are the way I want them! Thank you!!!
Todd this video was absolutely AWESOME! I've taken college courses, watched videos, and mindless hours editing trying to really get a grasp of LRC but this summed up things I've been trying to do for years. Thanks a ton for the short but balanced video, and I'm sure I'll be back on here when I forget how it all works. 10/10
One of your best tip videos Todd and an excellent mini guide to adjusting and refining color! You also addressed using camera matching profiles which makes a big difference and hardly anyone addresses this critical first step in the edit process. Thanks Todd for an excellent tips and info. One question, I often try to use the free Linear Camera Profiles from Tony Kuyper to get try and get a good starting point; however, most of the time I don’t like the results. Have you used linear profiles and do you have any thoughts on using them?
I just got into Lightroom for like half a year and this has been the best video I have watched so far! This helped me so much with editing my trips to Madeira and Malta
Those were some hell of a lot of very good tips sir! Despite editing in LR since around 2009, this might have changed the way I work with color editing a whole lot. So: Thank you very much!
Hi Todd, I have watched dozen of videos full editing tips, yours however was easy to learn easy to remember and very helpfull. You have a great way of explaining! It reignited my interest into going through my older pictures and editing them with your tips
Thank you, this is an excellent tutorial. I have watched a fair number videos on colour, a few have been really useful but this definitely tops them. The negative luminance tip is great, I have often struggled to achieve a natural green in flora which I am happy with.
I've been a Nikon & Lr user now for a few years > only very recently switched to Fujifilm. Just watching this video and have found it extremely useful and it has altered the way I edit .... thank you
Excellent video. I personally prefer editing photos on a white background, because I find judging colours, tones and especially brightness much easier. Most of my images end up being presented surrounded by white. Lightroom and other editing software allows you to easily set your own background colour.
This is one of the most informative video related to photo editing I've been watching so far. It is not really about Lightroom. I believed that it is software agnostic knowledge about colors in general. 1) Content. Wow. I've learned so much. I'm a hobbyist, but after that video I've realized that I know nothing about colors. I would like to "print" that video and put it on the wall next to my desk. The bad thing is that now I would like to re-edit hundreds of photos I was editing "mechanically" ;-) 2) Video quality wise, it is almost perfect, audio/voice, edit - top quality. Camera was missing a focus a few times but it does not matter at all - content always wins! 3) I'm finding the video really unique in the on YT. I was able to find your channel just last week. I need invest some time and explore your past videos! Thank you very much Todd. Please continue. I'm more that sure that it will be appreciated and I hope that YT platform is and will work for you.
Really good tutorial, calm and really understandable! loved the part about reducing the complexity of color to help the viewer focus on the subject! Thank you! :)
Great vid, as usual. Validates what I have learned on my own, but wish I knew years ago. This style of editing is why I left Adobe and now use Capture One. Thanks Todd.
Only just found this. It’s brilliant. Been using the black and white tip all day and it works! Downside is that I now want to re-edit my whole catalogue 😂
Super friendly & engaging video, thanks! A couple comments: when you recommend editing in b&w w/o color, you click the BW button, but that changes the color profile to Adobe Monochrome, which has a TOTALLY DIFFERENT tonal map-so edits you make there will make no sense tonally when you switch back to the camera matching profile. Instead, you should just set the desaturation to -100, make your edits, & then set Sat back to 0. Next, the calibration panel (formerly Camera Calibration) is there as a stopgap in case there are no camera matching profiles, like with unsupported cameras or jpegs w/o metadata. If there is a camera matching profile, choose that & your image is correctly calibrated, & all you're doing by messing w/those sliders is breaking the profile. Of course there's lots of ways to skin a cat & you can get something nice looking by randomly moving sliders all around-but imho folks would be better using the Color Mixer / Temp/Tent / Color Grading / Color Curve tools, since that's what they're meant for ... & using tools in ways they aren't intended to be used can bite you; the calibration tool, for example, is excluded when using masks. Also, when you warn peeps against using the global saturation slider, that's essentially what the calibration Sat sliders are, so mixed messages there.
Amazing explanation of every aspect, it was one of the best I saw in terms of merging the technicalities with the artistic side of photography. Thank you.
You have a great way of demonstrating the whys and hows of doing things, Todd. I've used LR for many years but upon watching the video a couple of times and experimenting with a few of the "new to me" things you mentioned, I see some interesting ways to improve my developing routines. Thanks much!
Very useful and instructive. Especially liked the bit on how to use tone curves. Am posting a link to your video on my Quora space titled Photography - tools, tricks, tips, apps. gear, since it's the best post-processing guidance I've yet seen.
Very useful info, thanks. I've been trying to get my head around colour grading for a while and generally finding that I don't know what I'm doing, although I did figure out the colour opposites affecting the colours as you mentioned, so I got that right. The calibration looks more instinctive to me so I'll be experimenting with that. Thanks again.
I've been using Lightroom since it's inception, and this is one of the best videos I've come across. I'm a retired civilian army, photographer, and I really enjoyed this video. You can teach an old dog new tricks.
Todd, what a great video! Agree, colour is one of the hardest things to come to grips with in RAW editing, and you have just made it a good bit easier. Thank you.
WOW - after more than 10 years of working with Lightroom realized a lot of new things through your video. Great tips, very well explained. Thank you!
Love when people REALLY share their way of doing things. Amazing insights in color grading. Thanks Man.
I really like that you don't focus on Lightroom as much as the title of the video suggests. I really appreciate that you explain the concept behind each tip so that it's easy to transfer this to other software as well.
If I could download this video into my head I would. This has been hands down one of the most informative and educational/helpful videos on color I have ever seen. You have a very unique talent for teaching, it’s spectacular. I wish there was a second like button because I went back to the video a second time to like it and realized I already had.
Hey Todd, I rarely comment on RUclips and tutorial in general but I’ve been doing photography for two years and have watched hundreds of videos on the subject. I’ve experimented with all these options in Lightroom, but the way you explain them really stands out. It’s better than TikTokers who just repeat what they’ve seen without truly understanding it, and it’s less technical than some overly complex tutorials. You’ve helped me see these options in a new light, and I’m sure it will improve my editing in Lightroom. Thanks!
Thanks :)
I LOVE your editing videos. One of the best I’ve found out of watching hundreds over the years. Love the tip about bending the colors together. Thank you!
Tip #1 already saved a lot of time! I was struggling with Adobe color profile
Without a doubt the most useful video I have watched on color science. I have been taking and editing photos for about 3 years and have watched dozens, probably hundreds of videos on color correction in Lightroom and have yet to find anything 1/10th as valuable as this. Thanks for the very thorough tutorial!
I switched to linear profiles and not switching back! I used them with my EOS R and now with my R5….it’s completely changed how I edit in Lightroom! Put the linear profile on and click Auto to get my starting point! Saves so much time! I’ll be doing a basic video on them soon!
What is linear profile?
@@jitomingo2000 Link to the video is in the description
@@rogalaphotographyI’m still not understanding. What is it and how do i get it on lightroom
@@retroking2350 It’s a profile for dynamic range. Like I said it’s all in my video. I really can’t explain it any better than in there.
Great to watch and think of different approaches to try. Can't wait to see your video on the new point colour tool in LR!
How does this video not have more views!!! One of the best educators on this platform 🙌
This is an absolutely amazing video. I've played around with the calibration sliders before, never got the hang of it and ran away from them, bcs I couldn't find a reason to use them. And now, while watching your video and having Lightroom open, I tried to apply some of those small subtle adjustments to my already edited photos and was blown away! Thank you very much for this highly educational video!
These are excellent tips, Todd. Thank you so much. I almost NEVER use Saturation in my photos and use Vibrance instead, because as you pointed out, when you use Saturation it applies it to EVERYTHING regardless of whether it's already saturated or not, but when you use Vibrance, it only applies it to the dull parts of the image. Love the tip especially about bending the colours together. Keep up the great work Todd.
Really good explanation. Hands down this is one of the best🙌 very informative, defo will watch many times and make notes. Very good job👍
This was amazing. Felt like a paid course
Brilliant tips here Todd thanks a lot!
I'm so happy that I've found this video! Color has been so illusive to me. I've been taking pictures for about 6 months and I"m finally starting to understand composition. I still take a thousand pictures to get one, but I can feel the ability somewhere inside me without necessarily being able to define it. Color , on the other hand, is a whole universe unto itself and feels completely unattainable to me. This video illustrates both how deep it goes, and that there is a path to understanding it. Thank you so much for this! Subbed, and when I'm done with this, I'm moving on to the rest of your videos :)
I have to admit, this video has added more ways to edit my images in ways I never knew. The tip to switch to b/w and adjust tones before going back to colors is something I will start adding to my workflow... Thanks Todd!!!
One of the first time I actually learned something regarding to color editing. Thank you so much Todd! 😀
This has been one of the most informative videos I have ever seen on color. Todd, you're an expert at this and it shows.
That was one of the most useful and well explained set of Lightroom tips I've seen on RUclips. Great stuff.
I love your opening frustrated comment. I have said this to myself so many times. These are all good tips. A couple I haven't thought of. Thank you.
One of the best videos for photography I have seen with fantastic tips. Absolutely brilliant. Thanks Todd!
Has anyone told you you’re an amazing teacher? That’s a college course on color in less than 30 minutes……. I will be watching this many more times! Thanks so much for sharing.
This video along with 10 Step RAW Photo Processing / Where to Start, What To Do Next, Where to Finish, are very helpful. Sometimes I think that if you master the techniques well, plugins or programs related to luminosity and chromance are not necessary. Particularly sometimes I start from a neutral profile and Adobe's is better than Canon's neutral profile in my opinion.👍👍
Excellent video. I have been watching hundreds of video about color, but you really revealed new tips, and most importantly, you made me understand what it is underneath the profiles and slides. Thank you so much!!!
you're video is refreshing from the typical youtube videos. thanks for the advice they are really useful
Thank you for a truly excellent tutorial, Todd. The best treatment of color editing I've seen on YT over several years. Lots of useful tips and tricks -- I expect to return to this vid again and again. Cheers
Phenomenon information - changed the way I will be editing moving forward.
May be one of the best videos on lightroom. Really helped me out a lot, thanks!
Another great session in how to use the multitude of LR Classic editing tool. Looks like I'll have to watch this again a few times to digest so many new editing tools. Thanks Todd 😀
I thought I was pretty proficient in Lightroom but there were things I learned here, very clearly explained without rushing. One thing from the start about colour settings, I couldn’t find the camera settings option although there were lots of effects options. However the camera setting was in the Preferences route so I was able to load my different camera bodies instead of Adobe which is great, so thank you.
Fascinating !! I’ve never seen anyone explain it that way before so thank you, I will use all of these tips. Much appreciated
His voice is like silk. Very smooth 👌 I will watch his stuff from now on.
This is the best damn video on color editing I’ve ever seen.
Excellent and clear, and so much more practical and encouraging than almost anything I have looked at when trying to wrap my head round this. Thanks Todd!
You are the first one to explain the difference between saturation and vibrance. And i watched a LOT of videos. It gets overlooked very often. Thanks for that! :)
One of the most helpful videos I’ve seen as a photographer thank you
Exceptionally well done, Todd. I thought I had a pretty good handle on color editing before watching your tutorial, and I'm glad to say I was wrong. There are any number of gems in your presentation that I'm anxious to put into practice. Kudos too for your teaching skills, especially your gift for making the complex simple and easy to grasp. Can't wait to see what you'll be doing as AI infiltrates more and more of the photo editing realm. Slainte !
That being said though, just because those AI features are there in that program, that doesn't necessarily mean you need to take advantage of them. If you find that you would be better served, by editing the normal way without using AI, well then do it. Just don't touch those features. Adobe isn't necessarily putting a gun to your head (so to speak) and saying you HAVE to use those AI features. And for the record, I HATE AI for the most part, so I'm not going to use it. It's like the Beta that came out for Photoshop for Generative AI. People are going to say 'oh but it will have its uses', but from what I've seen so far, it's taking away the creative thought that you as the photographer would need to make, so I'm never going to touch it even if it's there.
I've learnt a great deal about colour in this video, thanks Todd. Can't wait to try these tips out.
The best pro tips out there. You truly know your mastery, thank you for sharing us a glimps of your knowledge.
good precise knowledge. Thank you.
I've been struggling with color in Lightroom for so, so, so long. I would use presets and still the photos never came out the way I wanted them. This video literally opened my eyes and even without presets the photos are the way I want them!
Thank you!!!
Todd this video was absolutely AWESOME! I've taken college courses, watched videos, and mindless hours editing trying to really get a grasp of LRC but this summed up things I've been trying to do for years. Thanks a ton for the short but balanced video, and I'm sure I'll be back on here when I forget how it all works. 10/10
Great tips! It addresses quite a few issues I have seen over the years in my photos and did not know how to fix
Thank you. After watching numerous RUclips videos discussing color in Lightroom, this one stands out as the best
One of your best tip videos Todd and an excellent mini guide to adjusting and refining color! You also addressed using camera matching profiles which makes a big difference and hardly anyone addresses this critical first step in the edit process. Thanks Todd for an excellent tips and info. One question, I often try to use the free Linear Camera Profiles from Tony Kuyper to get try and get a good starting point; however, most of the time I don’t like the results. Have you used linear profiles and do you have any thoughts on using them?
Appreciate your help in sorting all this out. It's so important to reproduce the striking colors seen in real life! You've helped me yet again!
Thank you!
This video was fantastic!! Thank you! You really helped me understand color grading better.
I just got into Lightroom for like half a year and this has been the best video I have watched so far! This helped me so much with editing my trips to Madeira and Malta
Those were some hell of a lot of very good tips sir! Despite editing in LR since around 2009, this might have changed the way I work with color editing a whole lot. So: Thank you very much!
Thank you very much
Hi Todd,
I have watched dozen of videos full editing tips, yours however was easy to learn easy to remember and very helpfull. You have a great way of explaining! It reignited my interest into going through my older pictures and editing them with your tips
This is the best video I’ve seen in a long time - so practical - thanks
Thank you, this is an excellent tutorial. I have watched a fair number videos on colour, a few have been really useful but this definitely tops them. The negative luminance tip is great, I have often struggled to achieve a natural green in flora which I am happy with.
I've been a Nikon & Lr user now for a few years > only very recently switched to Fujifilm. Just watching this video and have found it extremely useful and it has altered the way I edit .... thank you
Excellent video. I personally prefer editing photos on a white background, because I find judging colours, tones and especially brightness much easier. Most of my images end up being presented surrounded by white. Lightroom and other editing software allows you to easily set your own background colour.
Excellent and informative video - a lot of aspects of Lightroom classic that I had not appreciated. Many thanks
You have some serious skills. Thanks for sharing the knowledge😊🙏🏼
This is one of the most informative video related to photo editing I've been watching so far.
It is not really about Lightroom. I believed that it is software agnostic knowledge about colors in general.
1) Content. Wow. I've learned so much. I'm a hobbyist, but after that video I've realized that I know nothing about colors. I would like to "print" that video and put it on the wall next to my desk. The bad thing is that now I would like to re-edit hundreds of photos I was editing "mechanically" ;-)
2) Video quality wise, it is almost perfect, audio/voice, edit - top quality. Camera was missing a focus a few times but it does not matter at all - content always wins!
3) I'm finding the video really unique in the on YT. I was able to find your channel just last week. I need invest some time and explore your past videos!
Thank you very much Todd.
Please continue. I'm more that sure that it will be appreciated and I hope that YT platform is and will work for you.
Really good tutorial, calm and really understandable! loved the part about reducing the complexity of color to help the viewer focus on the subject! Thank you! :)
Great vid, as usual. Validates what I have learned on my own, but wish I knew years ago. This style of editing is why I left Adobe and now use Capture One. Thanks Todd.
Only just found this. It’s brilliant. Been using the black and white tip all day and it works! Downside is that I now want to re-edit my whole catalogue 😂
This has easily been the most helpful tutorial I’ve watched in regards to color grading in Lightroom, thank you!
Super friendly & engaging video, thanks! A couple comments: when you recommend editing in b&w w/o color, you click the BW button, but that changes the color profile to Adobe Monochrome, which has a TOTALLY DIFFERENT tonal map-so edits you make there will make no sense tonally when you switch back to the camera matching profile. Instead, you should just set the desaturation to -100, make your edits, & then set Sat back to 0. Next, the calibration panel (formerly Camera Calibration) is there as a stopgap in case there are no camera matching profiles, like with unsupported cameras or jpegs w/o metadata. If there is a camera matching profile, choose that & your image is correctly calibrated, & all you're doing by messing w/those sliders is breaking the profile. Of course there's lots of ways to skin a cat & you can get something nice looking by randomly moving sliders all around-but imho folks would be better using the Color Mixer / Temp/Tent / Color Grading / Color Curve tools, since that's what they're meant for ... & using tools in ways they aren't intended to be used can bite you; the calibration tool, for example, is excluded when using masks. Also, when you warn peeps against using the global saturation slider, that's essentially what the calibration Sat sliders are, so mixed messages there.
Amazing explanation of every aspect, it was one of the best I saw in terms of merging the technicalities with the artistic side of photography. Thank you.
Excellent tutorial Todd. Thanks.
Excellent video Todd. Many thanks for sharing.
thank you so much for this !
Absolutely brilliant video Scott , so helpful . I will have a whole new editing approach from now on
You have a great way of demonstrating the whys and hows of doing things, Todd. I've used LR for many years but upon watching the video a couple of times and experimenting with a few of the "new to me" things you mentioned, I see some interesting ways to improve my developing routines. Thanks much!
Very useful and instructive. Especially liked the bit on how to use tone curves. Am posting a link to your video on my Quora space titled Photography - tools, tricks, tips, apps. gear, since it's the best post-processing guidance I've yet seen.
i needed this. thank you sir
Very useful info, thanks. I've been trying to get my head around colour grading for a while and generally finding that I don't know what I'm doing, although I did figure out the colour opposites affecting the colours as you mentioned, so I got that right. The calibration looks more instinctive to me so I'll be experimenting with that. Thanks again.
Love the way you explain things. Great video
Well done Todd. Thank you!
Totally forgot about the color profiles... feeling dumb. Back to work.
Thank you for explaining so clearly.
Thank you for the amazing video!!! Simple and very informative 🙌🏻
Wow! Most helpful video I’ve seen on color in Lightroom 🙂
Thanks for a really good tutorial. I happen to use Capture One, but many of the principles apply whichever program one uses.
Wow, your detail is pretty amazing in this video. Thank you for help!
Thank you so much for this AMAZING video
wow. thank you. so many effective advices, and all easily explained!
Helpful and good advices; thanks. Colour is a complicated topic in image editing.
Thanks for this video - it was very insightful and helpful. I’ve got a bunch of people to share it with.
Great video, definitely learned a few great tips from this. Very well explained and easy to understand, much much appreciated!
Hi Todd this is great thank you how do you move the calibration menu to the top?
Excellent breakdown! Nicely explained and good pacing. Thank you.
Fantastic video!❤
No only one tip, but all of them sooo helpful..!!!
Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Wish I had discovered your videos years ago!
Great Video Todd! Very helpful.
Very useful video, knowledge applicable in other softwares too. thank you!
You explain everything so clearly....very instructive. I definitly subscribe to your channel
my hero
Another excellent tutorial! Thank you.
Thanks for the tips, the last one really helped!