Getting the Best FALL COLORS in Your Photos

In this video, we help you learn how to best edit fall colors!

Fall colors are starting to appear and we want to help you represent them the way that our eyes can. Using three tools in Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Lightroom Classic, we can bring out the rich colors of fall in our photos.

The first technique that we talk about is our color temperature; a concept we use every day. We can tweak our Kelvin to be a little bit warmer (more orange) to bring warm tones back into the coolness of our images.

Most of the time our white balance doesn’t capture the beautiful fall sun rays correctly, so using the white balance slider in Lightroom we can bring the white balance back to what it looked like in real life.

The second technique that we talk about is using our HSL panel in Lightroom to change the hue, saturation, and the luminance of our colors in our photos. These tools can be magical if used correctly and realistically. By turning our greens more yellow, and our yellows more orange, we can turn our foliage into beautiful, vibrant fall colors.

The third and final technique that we talked about today is using our calibration panel. This panel is usually used to correct colors that different camera brands have too much of or too little of, but in this case, we can use it artistically. This tool is heavy handed so be sure to “proceed with caution” when using it.

All these tools are great for making an already “fall” image, pop!

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Chapters:

00:00 – Intro
00:15 – Technique #1: Using white balance
01:56 – Technique #2: Using HSL
02:40 – What is HSL?
05:00 – Using complimentary colors
06:36 – Technique #3: Using calibration
08:19 – Fixing your subject afterwards
09:32 - Outro

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Thanks for watching the video Getting the Best FALL COLORS in Your Photos

[forestchaput]

What are your favorite fall editing techniques? 📷🍁

[carladavies]

Great information as always!
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us!

[jeffreylandis]

Thanks for this video, now waiting to get some fall shots to try these tips

[stevejarvis]

Hi Forest, great video as usual. Can I mention a great tip a photographer called Anthony Morganti once posted about being able to change the White Balance on JPEG`s. What you do is open up a RAW Photo and then change the White Balance to all of the choices shown one by one, and each time you create a User Preset for that WB settings. I`m a Nikon shooter and so I have set up User Presets for 1) Cloudy WB JPEG, 2) Daylight WB JPEG, 3) Flash WB JPEG, 4) Fluorescent WB JPEG, 5) Shade WB JPEG, 6) Tungsten WB JPEG. It may not give you the total accuracy as when working with a RAW file, but when working on JPEG s or photos off your phone its a good starting point. Cheers

[phileagle]

Fantastic video! Some amazing tips really clearly explained. Lightroom can be so intimidating sometimes but these tips really help to encourage me to try new things!

[ginalong]

Have learned so much from these videos and your online classes. Can’t wait to see what you all have come up with for online this fall!

[michaelotoole]

Good job! Always good to add to the knowledge database!

[dangerspouse]

This cannot apply to Fall colors as there is no mention of pumpkin spice anywhere in the video. (FWIW, I often either switch the WB on my D500 to "Cloudy" or "WB AUTO2" (keep warm lighting colors) in the Autumn to give me a better indication in Live View. Also, I've been following your previous advice regarding using Calibration, and it's worked a treat. So I'll certainly now use the slider adjustments mentioned in this video as well. Thanks for all the great instructions, not just here but in all your vids!)

[eastbayjay]

Great tips, just in time for fall. I shoot in CRAW instead of RAW. Is there a big difference?