You're reading from The Photographer's Guide to Adobe Lightroom Learn industry-standard best practices and techniques to get the best out of the latest version of Lightroom Classic

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070102

Length 442 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Adobe Lightroom

Concepts

Image Editing

Author (1):

Marcin Lewandowski

Preface

Section 1: Importing Images into Lightroom and Exploring the Library Module's Structure and Tools

1 An Overview of Lightroom Classic FREE CHAPTER

2 Bring It All In – Importing Photographs into Lightroom

3 Tools Available within the Library Module

4 Folders and Collections

Section 2: Developing Photographs in Lightroom Classic

5 An Introduction to the Develop Module

6 A Detailed View of the Develop Module's Functions

Section 3: Exploring the Export, Print, Book, and Slideshow Modules

7 Get Them All Out of Lightroom – Exporting for Work and Leisure

8 Get them All Out – Using the Print and Book Modules

9 Slideshow, Map, and Web Modules

10 Final Notes and Summary

Table of Keyboard Shortcuts

Noise Reduction

Let's take a quick look at the sliders in the Noise Reduction section:

Luminance: The Luminance slider is the main tool to counteract noise in our photos, but we will start losing a lot of details at higher values. Using the Luminance tool is all about balancing between getting rid of unpleasant, digitally grainy-looking photographs and retaining or losing details. Working with high Luminance values will smother detail and make photographs look "plasticky-smooth" and unnatural. On the other hand, it may work in our favor once in a while and be a creative choice to run Luminance at a very high setting. Still, for most applications, it's all about being reasonable, especially when developing photographs of people.
Detail: We can counteract detail being removed by the Luminance setting by cranking up the Detail slider, which will help us retain a bit more detail at the price of more visible noise.
Contrast: The Contrast tool can help...

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