{"id":1482,"date":"2010-03-27T12:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-03-27\/1482"},"modified":"2010-03-27T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:01:09","slug":"stupid-tone-curve-tricks-a-half-dozen-develop-presets-for-lightroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-03-27\/1482","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Tone-Curve Tricks: A Half Dozen Develop Presets for Lightroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\nNOTE<\/b>: Images with an icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n
<\/a>\nPhoto being processed: D200 + 70-200mm f\/2.8 @ 200 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>100 sec, f<\/span>\/4.5, ISO 320 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nOn Top of the (Monochromatic) World<\/span>\nvia the “Monochrome” preset discussed below\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\nNote for Lightroom 4<\/span> and Later:<\/span>\nThe presets in this article were developed for “Process: 2010”,<\/span>\nwhich was standard in Lightroom 3.<\/span>\nLightroom 4<\/span> and later, however, default to a different<\/span>\nprocess version, so these presets will appear to do nothing. However, if you\nswitch back to “Process: 2010”<\/span> in the “Camera Calibration”\nsection of Develop, the preset will have its full effect. You can then<\/span> leave it that way,\nor switch back to whatever process version you like, and the changes will be brought forward.\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

The tone curve<\/b> is one of the ways that Adobe Lightroom offers to\nadjust an image. It's basically<\/span> a “brightness map” that normally indicates\n\"dim parts of the image are shown as black, bright parts are show as white,\nand things in between are shown proportionally somewhere along the line\nbetween the two\". The screenshot<\/span> below highlights Lightroom's default tone\ncurve, which is mostly a straight<\/span> line (that is, “proportional”) from dark\nto bright...<\/p>\n\n

<\/a>\nPhoto being processed: D200 + 17-55mm f\/2.8 @ 17 mm — 1<\/sup>\/<\/big>500 sec, f<\/span>\/5, ISO 250 —\nmap & image data<\/a> — nearby photos<\/a><\/span>\nAdobe Lightroom Develop Module<\/span>\nin the second LR3 public beta\n<\/div>\n\n

The idea of a tone curve is general to photo-editing applications; if\nyou're not sure of what one is, you might take a look<\/span> at\nthis<\/a> or this<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n

Prior to the release of the second LR3 beta<\/a>\nearlier in the week, Lightroom users could tweak the tone curve slightly to\ntry to bring out or suppress detail in tonal areas of an image (e.g. “bring\nup the shadows”, “compress the highlights”, etc.), but now with we have\nmuch more control.<\/p>\n\n