From the course: Lightroom: Developing Raw and DNG Files

Creating an effective split tone effect - Lightroom Tutorial

From the course: Lightroom: Developing Raw and DNG Files

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Creating an effective split tone effect

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- [Instructor] Let's work with this next image here. I'll start with the light tool and just click auto to get a good base line. That's helping. Let's recover the highlights a little bit more for the clouds and bring up the contrasting image. Now, down here under effects, I want to work with split toning. A classic look of cinema is a teal and orange type look. So let's go to the highlights here and drag this over to more of a teal color. I'll go really strong initially. Then we'll take the shadows and map that to orange. You can see a very pronounced effect. Now using this, we can split the balance between the two but better to find what's a shadow and what's a highlight. I like this, now I'm just going to back it off. So we'll drag down here the saturation. Here's a little trick by the way. If you've in the right place, just hold on the options of the alt key and now the hue is constrained more or less but you can play with the intensity of the color with saturation. This makes it easier to back off the effect for a more subtle look. And there we have our classic teal and orange look giving it more of a vintage feel. Now remember, you can continue to play with these and back them off so it's more subtle but these are often used to create vintage or nostalgic-type looks. In this case, at a low value, it's quite effective and it just has a gentle effect of changing the mood of the picture.

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