Greetings friends. David Marx here. In this video, I'm going to show you an editing hack that can give you way more control over your color editing. If you're ready to see one of my favorite new tricks, then let's jump right in and let's get started! Before we get to today's hack, let's quickly review where to find the Preset Amount
slider Inside of Lightroom Classic. If I decide But I want to add some color, Tony,
onto this black and white image. Then I can click here to apply one of these pres
ets. As I'm sure you know, a preset in the Lightroom
universe is nothing more than a saved set of Develop settings
that we can apply to any image. In this case, the simulated yellowy sepia look is created by these Black and White Mix panel settings. And the highlights in the color grading panel. Tapping on the split tone number four preset instead Changes all of these settings for me. and it gives this image a different look. That part is old news. But about two years ago, Adobe added this Amoun
t slider up here at the top of the Presets panel. Using this control, I can increase or decrease the strength of the color wash that this preset creates. This automatic scaling. This is the heart of today's tutorial. So let's move over to another example
because there's a little bit more to learn. Here we have an image from one of the locations that we visit on all of my Glacier
National Park field photography workshops. This time. I'm not interested in turning this photo into a black and white
or applying any of my existing preset. What I want to do for this image is to make those purple
lupine flowers pop. using the Saturation and Luminance controls. that live inside of the Color Mixer panel. By the way, if this panel, or any of the other editing tools
that I use in this tutorial are new for you, then please watch one of my panel
specific deep dives after you finish this video. I'm going to dial in some Saturation settings here That will help me achieve my goal. I'm also going to key
in some changes to the Luminance values To make those flowers really stand out. Now I'll press on the eyeball at the top of the Color Mixer panel so that you can see what a difference these changes have made. I like what's happening here, but I'm curious
if there are other possibilities. I'm convinced that I've moved the colors in the right direction. But did I move them far enough? Maybe I should have moved them further? What I wish we had here in this panel. is an Amount slider like we saw a
minute ago for the presets. But sadly. Classic doesn't have that option Baked into its user interface. So here's today's trick. What if I go over to the top of the Presets panel and I press on this button to create a new preset? I'm going to name this one “Temp” because I intend to use it only once. Next, I'm going to tap on the Check None button at the bottom Then on the color mixer option, since that's all that I want to store in this temporary preset. Before you tap on the Create button
make
sure that the Support Amount Slider option is enabled. Now. I can hit Create and then I can tap on the name of the temporary preset that I just created. Once I've done that, I can drag the pre-set amount slider up or down. to see a host of other Color Mixer possibilities. At the zero setting, we can see this image without any of the changes
That I made a moment ago using the color mixer panel. At the 50 setting, We're getting about half of the change that I dialed in. using those Saturation and
Luminance sliders. And at the 200 setting, We are doubling the strength of each change that I made. Now instead of having just one option
we have a huge range of possibilities. And on this image, I happen to like the way that things really look around the 160 setting. In no time. We've gone from this. To this where those flowers really pop and I've discovered a set of H. S l values that I might never have stumbled upon on my own. Let me show you some additional refinements to this workflow hack
using this photo from Acadia National Park. Like last time. I've already established the exposure that I want for this image. using all the normal controls up here in the Basic panel. At this point, I'm ready to shape the strength of color
that I want in this image. I could do that using the Color
Mixer sliders Like I did last time, but. since the latest version of Lightroom Classic
Now includes the more precise Point Color feature; let's go that route instead. When I look at this image right no
w, My eyes are instantly drawn to these rich green leaves and those grasses in the foreground. I don't dislike those areas, but I don't find them as unique as the red and orange leaves. So to knock down the intensity in the greens I am going to activate the Color Sampler tool. Then I'm going to sample an area like this
to create my first swatch. Next,
I'm going to drop the saturation down and bring the luminance up. To prevent spillover into the yellow leaves, I'm going to work with these additi
onal Range controls down here. And I'm going to close down the hue and saturation
range is a little bit Using the ALT (PC) / ALT OPTION (Mac) key click trick to see a live preview. With the greens toned down. I'm going to activate the Color Sampler tool again and I'm going to define a second color
swatch for the orange areas. Here., I'm going to shift the Hue towards red. and boost the Saturation. I will slightly lower the Luminance too. With this swatch, I'm going to expand the affected range b
y dragging this range slider up so that the changes that this one makes
will affect a wider area of orange and yellow colors. Finally, I'm going to repeat this process one more time with an additional swatch that targets the reds. At this point, let me press and hold the eyeball beside the Color Mixer panel So that you can see what these changes are doing to this image. I like what we have now but have I gone far enough? How can I be sure that my current point color settings are the best possibl
e look for this image? Well, one way to answer these questions is to come back over here and to create a new preset. Like last time, I'm going to name this one “Temp. ” I'm going to make sure that only the Color Mixer and the Support Amount sliders are turned on. When I hit Create though, another window is going to pop up Since I'm reusing this presets name. I'm sure that overwriting the settings in this temporary preset will do me no harm so I'm going to choose Replace. Now I can come over here
and tap on my temporary preset and then I can use that Amount slider to explore the world of other Point Color possibilities! Let's say that I love what's happening here at twice
the presets original strength. Let's say specifically. that I love what's happening in the greens and yellows, but that I think that the reds look a little overdone. Well, like everything else in Lightroom,
there is nothing stopping me from returning to the Point Color panel
at this point And reactivating my red swatch
. Once this swatch is active, I can refine these controls without altering any of the changes that I made to the yellows or greens and with no fear. Bam. In no time, we've gone from the image on the left
to the one on the right And we've given ourselves the ability
to consider a huge range of alternatives! Before I end this video, let me add two quick comments. First, once you're delighted with the way that your image looks, you can delete that temporary preset if you want. But you don't have to
do this either. After you finalized your image, leaving that preset alone will do you no harm either. Second,
I want to make it clear that this Amount slider trick works with almost all Of the global editing tools in Lightroom Classic But not everything. This trick will not work with tools like the Calibration panel, Or the new lens blur tool or the lens correction. I don't view this as a problem because it's only in the infinite range of color image adjustments that I find this trick really he
lpful. For things like Lens Correction, or Transform, I don't need to see a range of other possibilities
to know what each image needs. But when I'm working with the nuances of color, I love this temporary Amount slider editing trick,
and I hope that you'll love it too! Well, there you go. I hope that you found this tutorial helpful. If you learned something today,
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Comments
Fantastic!!! Thank you. I'll give it a try.