The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

17. MANAGING BLACKS AND WHITES IN AN IMAGE

NOW THAT YOU’VE adjusted exposure, contrast, highlights, and shadows, let’s move into the whites and blacks. This is somewhat controversial because a lot of individuals like to set their whites and blacks first. But, with how well the four sliders at the very top work, I find that I use the Whites and Blacks sliders less and less. More often than not, I like using these sliders when I see that I have enough water across the bottle in the tonal range, but just need to do some slight tweaking to the file.

In Figure 17.1, you’ll notice that there’s a pretty good amount of range, but if you look at the histogram ...