The 3 Top NEW Lightroom Features in v.12.4 & How to Use Them (VIDEO)

Adobe has been busy updating Lightroom, making this common enhancing software program more practical, quicker, and simpler to use. The fast tutorial under from Photoshop Café explains how to enhance your workflow with a trio of recent capabilities.

Instructor Colin Smith is a favourite amongst Shutterbug readers who recognize the simple method in which he retains us knowledgeable each time Photoshop and Lightroom updates are launched. At this time he walks you thru what he considers “the three prime new options in Lightroom model 12.4.”

Not solely will Smith’s picks allow you to obtain higher edits, however they’re easy sufficient for anybody to use, as evidenced by the truth that they solely take 5 minutes to show. The first new characteristic is known as Grain in Masks, and Smith pulls up a seascape photograph with grain in the sky to stroll you thru the rehabilitation course of.

Smith begins in the Develop module and creates a Linear Masks to illustrate how blurring the background is one frequent repair. However this is the issue: the sky not matches the grain in the remainder of the picture. That is the place the brand new Grain in Masks software comes to the rescue. As you will see, there are three sliders beneath the Results tab for adjusting Texture, Readability and Dehaze.

Instantly under you will additionally discover Grain sliders that management Quantity, Measurement, and Roughness. Smith demonstrates how to use these easy instruments to take away or add a slight little bit of grain to numerous parts of a picture in order that the photograph has a uniform look. Take a look at his earlier than/after photos and you will be impressed.

The second new Lightroom characteristic on Smith’s checklist is Visualize Colours, and he demonstrates why it is “tremendous helpful.” This one is considerably hidden inside the acquainted HSL panel, however the ALT/Possibility keystroke unlocks the brand new capabilities. To illustrate you are adjusting saturation, for instance. By utilizing this keystroke Lightroom will disguise all the colours apart from the one you are adjusting with its slider.

The identical holds true when working with the Hue and Luminance sliders. There’s additionally a Focused Adjustment software on the prime left of every HSL part that permits you to click on and drag inside the picture to shortly make no matter colour changes you need.

Saturation Restoration is Smith’s third favourite new characteristic, and you will have to watch this lesson to see what it may possibly do. Let’s simply say is entails utilizing Curves and is simply as easy and efficient because the instruments outlined above. You’ll be able to grasp these three new options in no time, and your edits can be more practical consequently.

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On a associated notice, make certain to watch the tutorial we posted from one other professional not too long ago, explaining extra particulars about utilizing Lightroom’s up to date Curves software to remedy Saturation issues.