Unlocking Lightroom’s Most Confusing yet Powerful Tools!

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In this week’s episode, we decode Lightroom's most confusing tools that make a huge difference in your photo editing. When it comes to Lightroom and photo editing in general, there's quite a few tools at our disposal that seem to do the same thing as other tools and sliders. Which makes it difficult and flat out confusing to figure out which tool is best for a particular scenario. And in this video, I break down four of these confusing tools that on the surface seem to be small details. but when you know what to look for you'll see that they actually result in a big difference. I hope you enjoy this week's episode and as always thanks so much for watching! - Mark D.

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[MarkDenneyPhoto]

🌟QUICK QUESTION: Clone or Heal? Which do you use most often?

[svetlanagrobman]

I would love to hear about differences between HSL, calibration and color grading.

[andycoleman]

If you're thinking about a part 2 to this video, what about the difference between using "contrast", using the tone curve, or using the black and white sliders?

[dkproductions]

Mark, these days I come to your videos 50% for learning reasons and 50% for the calming atmosphere. You are like the Fred Rogers of photography. Thanks for everything you do!

[ArmandoDuarte]

Vibrance protects skin tones, is not so aggressive in the yellows reds and oranges, as it is with other colours of the wheel. If you have used a photo with people, it would be more explicit.
The other differences explained in the video are very well illustrated.
Thank you, and keep doing your excellent vídeos! 👏

[kozx]

I've gone back and edited some older photos using what I've learned on your channel and there is a night and day difference. Especially shifting some greens toward yellows in some of my older landscape shots. Thanks for all the great info!

[davidligon]

Probably one of the most useful “intermediate” Lightroom video I’ve seen. Agree, good thing to learn Photoshop for Heal and Clone any day. Removing objects (other than dust spots and small particles) with Lightroom is painful and often fruitless.

[dankoons]

Got to laugh at ourselves
.We buy corrected lenses for vignette, and then add it back!

[markallemang]

I'm a software dev in my day job. I wonder if vibrance is how the Adobe engineers would implement "saturation" from scratch, but they needed to keep the prior one for established users.

As always, learned things from your video. I like the vignette idea .... that is why I rarely use it, but never thought of your solution.

[carolynvines]

I had stopped using vignettes because it seems most professional photographers hate them; but I think I'd like to try this method. Also I had not considered using a brush mask to reduce the effect of another mask in some areas. I can see this making a big difference in my editing skills! Thanks!

It seems Vibrance is a kind of contrast slider.

[dennisfrederick]

Once again I learned more things. The radial vignette was a great idea. The heal verses clone I didn't know about but will explore using it. Thanks for the insight.

[malmedia]

I don't know if this is true, or which is which, but one thing I have heard is that one of the differences between vibrance and saturation is one of them effects skin tones more than the other. So for landscapes, it may not be as obvious.

[glenclarke]

Thank you very much. Again I find myself pausing and asking notes of you pearls of knowledge and understanding. Adobe should pay you - excellent.

[samwilson]

Thanks Mark. Just found your channel a little while ago and am really enjoying the info you share. Also listened to a podcast recently where you shared your journey (Landscape Photography World with David Johnston I think?).
My question is re vignetting, and I apologise if you've answered it elsewhere, when in your workflow do you apply your vignette? Some I've seen apply it really early and others just before publishing.
I know it's not a first world problem but would appreciate your thoughts.

[hypnoticsunshine]

What zoom % do you use best to judge sharpness of a picture and if a lens performs well. Do you go beyond 100% ? I have no idea at what % you start calling it pixel peeping. Thank you for youtube chanel.love it 😍

[matteoromagnoli]

Hello Mark, great super helpful video my friend, I've benn following you for a wile and is also thank to you if I invested in photography wich is my passion. Unfortunately only few can make a living out of it and therefore it remains an hobby :( I have a couple of questions: the first one (i know you prefer Lightroom) but in light of the new technology applied, do you still think lightroom is better than photoshop? The second one is more personal, as hobby, I cannot afford expensive lens so I always fight on quality vs resolution. Do you have any advice I can try out of the box to finally win this fight and bring good quality on my pictures? I would really appreciate your response thank you in advance and keep up with your great work :)

[oscararrieta]

I've been using for most of my pictures Photoshop Raw, it is quicker even I have also lightroom I only use it for pictures thar require more advanced adjustment, thanks for all your lessons.

[prsearls]

That was a good (and clear) demonstration and explanation of those important sliders I always use (sparingly, usually).

[steviesteve]

I can make the same effect with the conventional vignette adjustment. You can change the shape, and midpoint, and you can always use the radial or brush masks to adjust locally, but I find the vignette tool is more natural looking

[johnboyaz]

I like the explanations of the differences between the various tools. I would also like to see a video post focused on detailing your personal approach to choosing when to use which “flavor” and perhaps even when you would mix and match them in your own editing workflow. Knowing the difference between a rip saw and a crosscut saw is important, but equally valuable is knowing which to use when. Thanks for your posts. I genuinely like them.