The powerful adjustment controls in the Develop module of Lightroom 5 can help you optimize the appearance of your photos: from general contrast and tone adjustments to retouching and creative tints. Learn how to boost color, sharpen details, crop and straighten images, and add subtle effects like split toning and vignettes. Author Tim Grey also shows you how to use Lightroom and Photoshop together to apply adjustments that go beyond the capabilities of Lightroom alone.

Topics include:

• Evaluating images
• Adjusting white balance
• Working with Clarity
• Fine-tuning with the Tone Curve
• Painting adjustments into an image
• Applying noise reduction
• Correcting perspective
• Converting to black and white
• Duplicating adjustments
• Stitching panoramas

 

  Optimizing Your Photos