Lightroom Classic CC: Creative Color

Course details

With the color controls in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, you can ensure that a photo's colors are accurate; however, these controls are about more than just color correction. In this course, photographer and educator Chris Orwig shares techniques for working creatively with color in Lightroom. Follow along as Chris explains how to add vibrant colors to your shots and enhance the hair color of your subjects. He shows how to use split-toning controls to make your images cooler or warmer, fine-tune colors with HSL controls, create and work with presets, and produce a variety of other effects.

Learning objectives
Using the core color tools
Changing a background color
Painting in a new hair color
Working on a landscape
Fine-tuning color with split toning
Working with the HSL controls
Creating your own color presets
Finding and managing third-party color presets
Crafting unique color looks

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome
Challenges
Exercise files

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

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

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

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

Presets

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

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