by
jlwilm » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:31 pm
Michel,
Interesting question.
In the Lr/ACR challenge, I roam around and play with them all. In practice, I use Lr to adjust within the basic tab, then tend to go directly to CS3 and use adjustment layers.
One thing I am particularly interested in is using the Hue/Saturation/Luminance tab in Lr that gives a rather unique feature that is to my knowledge not available in CS3 and that is the ability to click on a selector that then allows you to click in the picture – say on a red shirt – and adjust the sliders that correspond to that part of the image to increase or decrease the H/S/L areas of that object alone. In workbench videos from Radiant Vista, they play with these sliders to see what happens, in Lr you select the “colour” of the object and increase or decrease. In other words, it removes the guesswork about what to change.
In my real world, I use Lr and the basic tab the most and I tend to pay attention to the Histogram and adjust the Exposure/Recovery/Fill Light/Blacks, then go directly to CS3 and use an action that I have that creates my favorite adjustment layers (5 adjustment layers and a colour burn and a colour dodge layer – all in a neutral mode, then make all my adjustments on a specific area of the picture using the Layer Masks to make specific local area adjustments.
Sounds like a lot, but some of them are simply not used – they are there just in case. The Layer stack looks like this:
- 2008-09-09_172603.jpg (37.73 KiB) Viewed 919 times
and each layer is set to a specific blend mode as determined by the layer - from top to bottom
Color Dodge
Color Burn
Saturation
Normal
Color
Luminosity
Luminosity
which is something new I have been playing with since April this year - basically the layer blend mode is set to the requirements of what the adjustment layer is doing and it targets that aspect of the picture.