Comments on: Tip – Graduated Filter Modifier Keys

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:05:24 +0000

I have labored and labored trying to keep the graduated filter straight on some landscape shots. Ah! the shift key! What a great tip. Thanks.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:26:52 +0000

Matt – thanks – great stuff.

Would love to see a tutorial on exact skin tones. Am using the WiBal and the DNG profiler from Adobe, taken off the color checker, for my work with the Canon 40D. It is amazing what both of these two things can do for color.

Just want to make sure I’m not missing anything. Want to make all my brides very happy!

Thanks, Ted

By: seoras

seoras — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:15:47 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks for all the tips over the years.

I use the Graduated Filter a lot and I mean a lot. But one area I’m struggling with is its use and the brush tool also in conjunction with the color picker. In fact its the lr picker itself I struggle with, apples own picker is much more friendly and I can store colors and variants of for later. Any tips or thoughts on this feature would be appreciated.

By: Piet

Piet — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:48:07 +0000

Hi Matt,
I don’t know where you get the time and the energy to keep coming up with those tips!
I occasionally put some on my blog as well. The latest one is a video on how to fade Lightroom presets, because a preset can sometimes be too heavy on a picture, and reducing it’s effect can be very time-consuming, as the best presets change a lot of settings.
‘Can’t be done’, you probably think. Well, technically, no, but there’s a workaround that I use a lot. It’s really one of those ‘just have to think of it’ things, but I haven’t seen it posted anywhere (maybe I overlooked) and so I thought I’d share…
Anyway, here’s the link. Hope you like it
http://morethanwords.be/blog/lightroom-tip-of-the-week-7-fading-a-lightroom-preset/

By: ed okie

ed okie — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:06:15 +0000

Matt, LR’s histogram RGB scale… doesn’t reflect blown red highlights when they readily exist. A peak percentage reading might suggest 89-90% and seemingly everything is fine. But open that image in PhotoShop and it’s obvious there’s a major blown-red issue. Encountered this dramatically while recently shooting fall-foliage pictures in Vermont.
Is there any way to adjust LR’s RGB sensitivity display?

By: Sonesta

Sonesta — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:40:58 +0000

Thanks for those tips! I haven’t used the gradient tool much yet, but I’m really looking forward to it! I’ve seen some of your videos about it and it is yet another amazing tool in LR.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:05:57 +0000

Thanks for Tip #2. While I was practicing with it I happened to put the cursor over the dot and it changed to a straight double arrow ( rather than the curved). Then moving the cursor back and forth some of the sliders in the Filter moved if I had previously moved it. For instance, If I had adjusted the Exposure setting up, I could increase the exposure by moving the double arrow to the right but when I moved it back to the left the slider wouldn’t go further than the original exposure setting I had made, Were you aware of this behavior?

By: dgluck

dgluck — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:19:36 +0000

A friend of mine refused to use the graduated filter because she said it was “uncontrolable”. Your tip helped a lot her but she stil had problems getting it in the right place. I passed on a further tip to take care of fine adjustments – move the double curved arrows to the far edge of the center line before trying to change the level. If you try near the center it moves way too much. It appears to be graduated in movement from the center out to the edge of the line (logical).

By: David

David — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:09:02 +0000

your kidding !!!!
Crazy is an understatement !! A very big thanks…did not know
Dizzy

By: Darrin

Darrin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:06:45 +0000

I have used the graduated tool a few times with good success, but it has been awhile. Thanks for the reminder.