Last updated on
3 December 2024
Learn more about precise edits with local adjustment tools.
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Local adjustments made using the Light, Color, Effects, and Detail panels in Lightroom on the web are powerful tools for making precise edits. They let you make precise adjustments to specific areas of your photo, offering greater control and creativity in your editing process.
Light
The Light panel controls the overall exposure and tonal range of your image.
- Exposure: Sets the overall image brightness. Applying an Exposure local correction can achieve results like traditional dodging and burning.
- Contrast: Adjusts image contrast, affecting mid-tones.
- Highlights: Recovers detail in overexposed highlight areas of an image.
- Shadows: Recovers detail in underexposed shadow areas of an image.
- Whites: Adjusts the brightest areas in a photo.
- Blacks: Adjusts the darkest areas in a photo.
- Curves: Provides greater control over tonal range and contrast in a photo.
Color
The Color panel adjusts the colors and tones of your image.
- Temp: Adjusts the color temperature of an area of the image, making it warmer or cooler. A graduated filter temperature effect can improve images captured in mixed-lighting conditions.
- Tint: Compensates for a green or magenta color cast.
- Hue: Adjusts the hue in a photo. Use Fine Adjustment for precise adjustments.
- Saturation: Adjusts the vividness of the color.
- Point Color: Applies a tint to the area. Use the Color swatch to select the hue, and the effect is preserved if you convert the photo to black and white.
Effects
The Effects panel adds creative effects and adjusts the overall look of your image.
- Texture: Smoothens or accentuates textured details in your photo. The color or tonality does not change when you adjust the Texture slider.
- Clarity: Adds depth to an image by increasing local contrast.
- Dehaze: Reduces or increases existing haze in a photo.
- Grain: Adds grain (film) to your images.
Detail
The Detail panel sharpens your image and reduces the noise.
- Sharpness: Enhances edge definition to bring out details in the photo. A negative value blurs details.
- Noise Reduction: Reduces luminance noise, which can become apparent when shadow areas are opened.
- Moiré: Removes moiré artifacts or color aliasing.
- Defringe: Removes fringe colors along the edges.
