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Tone: Basic and Curves

Tone: Basic and Curves - Lightroom Tutorial

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Tone: Basic and Curves

- [Instructor] All right, so we've established a nice color temperature and tint. The image looks a lot better. Now what we want to do is adjust the tonality of it, and there's a lot of stuff we can do here. Now, before I do that, I'm going to go ahead and switch to a full screen of view just for your own viewing pleasure so we can, again, see that much more of the image. Okay, so we've got a nice big view of our image, and we're going to work down through this. I'm going to focus on the tonal controls here and then we're going to go a little bit deeper into the Tone Curve, which is, of course, very powerful, not as intimidating as it does in other applications like Photoshop. So the first thing I should note here, I want to dispel a myth, Auto is very, very powerful in the Develop module because what Auto is doing is it's looking at the histogram, and it's comparing the contents of the histogram to a library of photographs taken by professionals. So the first thing I want to…

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