I usually stay away from this tool & use the individual color sliders because I didn't like the results I ended up with with the Calibration tool. What surpised me the most is the Blue. I don't think I remember seeing that strong of an effect with the individual blue color slider. It has been a while & will have to mess around with both again. Thanks for the vid. You use that Color Checker on your shoots?
Hi Thomas, thanks for watching. No, I seldom use the color checker as I have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to get. However, I used in my last video about color and the different sensors and figured I'd show how a little tweaking can align some different sensors.
@@tv510 Thanks. I have one but only used a couple of times. I at he’d the big 3 color vid rite after this one. No bad choices these days. I still shoot a Nikon D810 mostly using A1.5 WB & Auto ISO usually shooting wildlife. Subjects/birds moving in & out of different light & color backgrounds will definitely teach one how the White Balance effects different photos. Thanks for your reply.
I have gravitated to using calibration early on in my edit process, in fact right after using the basics panel. Have also moved calibration from the bottom of the stack to just below the basic panel. I mostly experiment with the calibration sliders. Sometimes it can work magic and sometimes I zero them out and move on. I am almost totally a landscape photographer.
Very informative video, Terry. I usually spend much more time thinking about taking photo's and much less time processing them. It made me realise that actually it should be the other way around. It is much easier to correct a RAW file later. The act of taking a photo is quick. We spend more time at home than out taking photo's, so we should devote more time to carefully manipulating files in LightRoom, as we have more time at home than when we actually take the photo's. Thanks for the tips.
I found the Calibration panel that the blue slider is handy in landscapes. Also moved the Calibration to just under the Basic panel. I have found the Calibration makes larger adjustments than the Color Mixer, so you can use the color Mixer afterward if you want to make some finer changes.
Thanks and food for thought as I do not use this feature very much. I do however, use colour picker often as it’s more selective and has more sub-features. Also when I travel I do some firmly decent editing on LRM which omits this feature set. Keep up the good work.
THANK YOU!!! What I don`t like about my Nikons is the colors. I like my Leica M10R colors. I photographed my Macbeth Color Checker in nice blue sky with cameras set to a K temp that makes my landscapes look as good as possible. In camera raw I used the WB on the bottom grey scale to fine tune them. Then I balanced the R,G, and B patches from Nikon to match the Leica M and saved it as a preset. Use Bridge to mass change all the Nikon at one time if you desire. Gone are the exaggerated colors in Japanese cameras and films. I always preferred Kodak PRO FILM or Agfa .
I am planning a color mixer video, but the short of it, is that Calibration will affect main RGB colors and parts of other colors. Kind of a semi-global color altering. While the Color Mixer will work with individual colors with less effect on the other colors. Calibration is so much faster, that is why I gravitate towards it.
James, calibration affects ALL colours. Every pixel in your image is created by a mixture of Red, Green and Blue - the 'recipe', the relative quantities of each, is determined by your camera manufacturer, hence arguments about different colour science as between for example Sony and Fuji. It is the absolutely basic stage in the creation of the image on your screen. Sure, one calibration slider may have a more dramatic visual effect than another, but they all affect all pixels. Playing around with the calibration sliders and a colour wheel will show you what I mean. The colour mixer control is much more selective: it affects only the individual colour that you choose - in a way it is a more superficial control, in that it affects only a particular colour as it appears way after the calibration stage.
I think this video is very misleading. You suggest that the calibration tool is selective. That's not the case. Anything you do in the calibration space will affect ALL the colours in your image. That's what makes this tool different from the colour mixer facility. Colour calibration affects the way every aspect of your image is derived from the three basic colours coming off the sensor. Sure, the three colour calibration controls each affect some colours more than others, but they all affect every single pixel in your image to a greater or lesser extent.
Clearly, you can make landscape images look better however isn’t it just phony and fake? It’s one thing to adjust a raw file to make it look like reality, but it’s quite another to adjust it to make it look good and not reflect what was actually seen. Phony phony phony
Its possible some people might look at and say "phony" but these programs give you the opportunity to make the image look more like what you actually saw at the scene. Not everyone has the camera skills to create the image correctly from the start. Then the next step is creating an artistic piece which would be your personal interpretation the image. Thanks for watching.
And WHY do you watch this video when it's entitled "Lightroom Classic" (which is well known to be an Adobe product)? Do you want to impress us all with your comment? You failed!!
I usually stay away from this tool & use the individual color sliders because I didn't like the results I ended up with with the Calibration tool. What surpised me the most is the Blue. I don't think I remember seeing that strong of an effect with the individual blue color slider. It has been a while & will have to mess around with both again. Thanks for the vid. You use that Color Checker on your shoots?
Hi Thomas, thanks for watching. No, I seldom use the color checker as I have a pretty good idea of what I'm going to get. However, I used in my last video about color and the different sensors and figured I'd show how a little tweaking can align some different sensors.
@@tv510 Thanks. I have one but only used a couple of times. I at he’d the big 3 color vid rite after this one. No bad choices these days. I still shoot a Nikon D810 mostly using A1.5 WB & Auto ISO usually shooting wildlife. Subjects/birds moving in & out of different light & color backgrounds will definitely teach one how the White Balance effects different photos. Thanks for your reply.
Great tutorial! I am learning so much. I need to keep practicing. 😊
Yes Sue, practice will make a big difference.
Thank you Terry.
You are very welcome, thank you for watching.
I have gravitated to using calibration early on in my edit process, in fact right after using the basics panel. Have also moved calibration from the bottom of the stack to just below the basic panel. I mostly experiment with the calibration sliders. Sometimes it can work magic and sometimes I zero them out and move on. I am almost totally a landscape photographer.
I was thinking about moving the panel up higher, I just may do that, thanks.
Great tutorial! Bravo!
Thank you, I appreciate you watching.
Very informative video, Terry. I usually spend much more time thinking about taking photo's and much less time processing them. It made me realise that actually it should be the other way around. It is much easier to correct a RAW file later. The act of taking a photo is quick. We spend more time at home than out taking photo's, so we should devote more time to carefully manipulating files in LightRoom, as we have more time at home than when we actually take the photo's. Thanks for the tips.
Glad it was helpful!
I found the Calibration panel that the blue slider is handy in landscapes. Also moved the Calibration to just under the Basic panel. I have found the Calibration makes larger adjustments than the Color Mixer, so you can use the color Mixer afterward if you want to make some finer changes.
Good points, I also will be moving my Calibration up higher in the workflow panels.
Thanks and food for thought as I do not use this feature very much. I do however, use colour picker often as it’s more selective and has more sub-features. Also when I travel I do some firmly decent editing on LRM which omits this feature set. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Martin, I appreciate you watching.
Good Demo 👍
Thanks for checking it out!
THANK YOU!!! What I don`t like about my Nikons is the colors. I like my Leica M10R colors. I photographed my Macbeth Color Checker in nice blue sky with cameras set to a K temp that makes my landscapes look as good as possible. In camera raw I used the WB on the bottom grey scale to fine tune them. Then I balanced the R,G, and B patches from Nikon to match the Leica M and saved it as a preset. Use Bridge to mass change all the Nikon at one time if you desire. Gone are the exaggerated colors in Japanese cameras and films. I always preferred Kodak PRO FILM or Agfa .
Thanks Ron, that is a good workflow you have developed. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for the video. Can you explain to me the difference between the Calibration and Color Mixer panels as they seem very similar to me.
I am planning a color mixer video, but the short of it, is that Calibration will affect main RGB colors and parts of other colors. Kind of a semi-global color altering. While the Color Mixer will work with individual colors with less effect on the other colors. Calibration is so much faster, that is why I gravitate towards it.
James, calibration affects ALL colours. Every pixel in your image is created by a mixture of Red, Green and Blue - the 'recipe', the relative quantities of each, is determined by your camera manufacturer, hence arguments about different colour science as between for example Sony and Fuji. It is the absolutely basic stage in the creation of the image on your screen. Sure, one calibration slider may have a more dramatic visual effect than another, but they all affect all pixels. Playing around with the calibration sliders and a colour wheel will show you what I mean. The colour mixer control is much more selective: it affects only the individual colour that you choose - in a way it is a more superficial control, in that it affects only a particular colour as it appears way after the calibration stage.
Link to Sample RAW Images for Calibration is not active.
Sorry, should be working now.
Great video, can you also email me those color graphics?
Sure, send me and email to remind me. terry@imagelight.com
I think this video is very misleading. You suggest that the calibration tool is selective. That's not the case. Anything you do in the calibration space will affect ALL the colours in your image. That's what makes this tool different from the colour mixer facility. Colour calibration affects the way every aspect of your image is derived from the three basic colours coming off the sensor. Sure, the three colour calibration controls each affect some colours more than others, but they all affect every single pixel in your image to a greater or lesser extent.
Sorry, I thought I demonstrated that with the first example where all the colors change slightly, I wasn't trying to be misleading.
Clearly, you can make landscape images look better however isn’t it just phony and fake? It’s one thing to adjust a raw file to make it look like reality, but it’s quite another to adjust it to make it look good and not reflect what was actually seen. Phony phony phony
Its possible some people might look at and say "phony" but these programs give you the opportunity to make the image look more like what you actually saw at the scene. Not everyone has the camera skills to create the image correctly from the start. Then the next step is creating an artistic piece which would be your personal interpretation the image. Thanks for watching.
Mic drop!
No thanks! After 20 plus years I've finally deleted al Adobe. No more subscription to the nasty owners.
And WHY do you watch this video when it's entitled "Lightroom Classic" (which is well known to be an Adobe product)? Do you want to impress us all with your comment? You failed!!
Not for everyone, but thanks for watching.