2. Using Lightroom’s Develop Module for Global Adjustments

Lesson overview

As you learned in “Getting Started,” Lightroom excels at correcting the tone and color of your photos. In this context, tone refers to the Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks sliders in the Develop module’s Basic panel. You’ll apply these changes to the entire photo, which is referred to as making global adjustments.

In this lesson you’ll learn how to:

Find your way around the Develop module workspace

Undo any adjustments you’ve made

Access and save different versions of your photo using the Snapshot feature

Master a typical workflow for adjusting tone and color

Reduce noise and sharpen photos

Add gorgeous edge vignettes

Sync changes ...

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