Fine-tune colour and saturation
Digital Photographer|Issue 280
Use Lightroom's extensive controls to enhance individual colours in your shots
Fine-tune colour and saturation

Saturation control is often a blunt instrument that doesn't produce a pleasing or natural result. But thanks to the HSL and Calibration controls in Lightroom, it's possible to make fine-tuned global adjustments that can ultimately improve the appearance of colours in landscape photos. With the ability to work with individual colour channels and to produce natural saturation, it's a powerful approach.

1 Basic processing Make the necessary standard adjustments to your image, such as White Balance, Exposure, Tone, Presence and Contrast using the Tone Curve. Don’t make any adjustments to Vibrance or Saturation because these will be covered with precise controls for a more refined result.

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