Lightroom Classic CC: Creative Color

Learn creative techniques for working with color in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Challenges
• Exercise files

1. Basic Panel Color Controls

• The core color tools
• Creating vibrant colors
• Improving the color your photographs
• Improving color and fixing clipping
• Using white balance as a starting point
• Fine-tuning white balance
• Challenge: Creating vivid colors
• Solution: Creating vivid colors

2. Selective Color Adjustments

• Changing a background color
• Painting in a new hair color
• Fixing a portrait
• Improving a scene
• Brushing away color
• Removing color with the Radial Filter
• Improving a sunrise silhouette
• Working on a landscape
• Bringing out sunset colors
• Challenge: Background and sunset
• Solution: Background and sunset

3. Split Toning

• Fine-tuning color with split toning
• Creating vivid sunrise colors
• Making sunset light look amazing
• Adding color to a black and white image
• Challenge: Split toning
• Solution: Split toning

4. The Power of HSL

• Working with the HSL controls
• Changing and fine-tuning color
• Creatively improving color
• Darkening the sky
• Crafting a unique color look
• Challenge: HSL
• Solution: HSL

5. Presets

• Creating your own presets
• Finding and using third party presets
• Managing presets
• Challenge: Presets
• Solution: Presets

6. Crafting Unique Color Looks

• Idealized Italy project
• Blue surfing project
• Multiple portraits project
• Challenge: Creating a look
• Solution: Creating a look, part 1
• Solution: Creating a look, part 2

Conclusion

• Next steps