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

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - Challenges
03 - Exercise files

1. Basic Panel Color Controls

04 - The core color tools
05 - Creating vibrant colors
06 - Improving the color your photographs
07 - Improving color and fixing clipping
08 - Using white balance as a starting point
09 - Fine-tuning white balance
10 - Challenge - Creating vivid colors
11 - Solution - Creating vivid colors

2. Selective Color Adjustments

12 - Changing a background color
13 - Painting in a new hair color
14 - Fixing a portrait
15 - Improving a scene
16 - Brushing away color
17 - Removing color with the Radial Filter
18 - Improving a sunrise silhouette
19 - Working on a landscape
20 - Bringing out sunset colors
21 - Challenge - Background and sunset
22 - Solution - Background and sunset

3. Split Toning

23 - Fine-tuning color with split toning
24 - Creating vivid sunrise colors
25 - Making sunset light look amazing
26 - Adding color to a black and white image
27 - Challenge - Split toning
28 - Solution - Split toning

4. The Power of HSL

29 - Working with the HSL controls
30 - Changing and fine-tuning color
31 - Creatively improving color
32 - Darkening the sky
33 - Crafting a unique color look
34 - Challenge - HSL
35 - Solution - HSL

5. Presets

36 - Creating your own presets
37 - Finding and using third party presets
38 - Managing presets
39 - Challenge - Presets
40 - Solution - Presets

6. Crafting Unique Color Looks

41 - Idealized Italy project
42 - Blue surfing project
43 - Multiple portraits project
44 - Challenge - Creating a look
45 - Solution - Creating a look, part 1
46 - Solution - Creating a look, part 2

Conclusion

47 - Next steps

Lightroom Classic CC: Creative Color

Authors

Chris Orwig