On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> Think about what each tag means, make big adjustments and watch the results. >> You can always restore the default. For example, "hue," it means the >> direction in which the overall color leans. Go one way, and you'll get more >> magenta. Go the other way, you'll get more green. "Saturation:" How >> saturated is the color? More saturation will give you more colorful colors >> -- if you'll excuse the redundancy. "Luminance;" Although I'm an ACR user >> and not a lightroom user, I would guess this gives you more midrange >> brightness, much like the brightness knob in ACR. (Don't know why Adobe >> doesn't use the same terminology.) But make an adjustment and watch. > > Thanks, Paul. I guess experience -- especially if it includes experimenting > -- will teach me. > > As mentioned in a previous response, I did "fiddle with the knobs" with one > especially awful image. [I figured I couldn't make it worse.] It's an > unsalvageable image, but I was able to improve it in some ways. Good that I > can always go back to the default. > > Which raises another question: When I make changes to an image in LR, do I > need to save them, or are the saved automatically? >
I'll leave that question for a lightroom user. In ACR, changes to the RAW are only saved if you click "done" or open the RAW and save it as a tiff, jpeg or psd file. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > [email protected] > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
