The Enthusiast's Guide to Lightroom

19. MANAGING HUE, SATURATION, AND BRIGHTNESS

ONCE YOU’VE FINISHED adjusting the exposure and tonality of your image, you can focus on making changes to individual colors. Lightroom makes it pretty easy to do this with the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance (HSL) sliders in the Develop module.

The HSL panel separates colors and lets you change them with a series of sliders. When you first expand the panel, you’ll note that the Hue option is selected (Figure 19.1), so sliding each of the color sliders will adjust the hues in the image first. The color bar directly under each slider marker shows you what the color change will be when you adjust that ...