Graphics Programs Reference
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Lightroom Killer Tips
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Resetting the White Balance
can choose between two zoom ratios
for the preview—1:1 or 2:1—which kick
in when you click your cursor inside the
Preview area.
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Getting a Before/After of
Yo u r B & W Twe a k i n g
You can't just press the
\ (backslash) key
to see your before image after you've
done the edits to your B&W image, be-
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Hiding the Clipping
Warning Triangles
If you don't use the two little clipping
warning triangles in the top corners of
the histogram (or you want them turned
off when you're not using them), then just
Right-click anywhere on the histogram
To reset both the Temperature and T Tint
White Balance sliders to their original
As Shot settings, just double-click directly
on the letters WB in the Basic panel.
cause you're starting with a color photo
(so pressing \ just gives you the color
original again). There are two ways to get
around this: (1) As soon as you convert
to black and white, press
Command-N
(PC: Ctrl-N)
to save the conversion as a
snapshot. Now you can get back to your
B&W original anytime by clicking on
that snapshot in the Snapshots panel. Or,
(2) after you convert to black and white,
press
Command-' (PC: Ctrl-')
to make
a virtual copy, and then do your editing
to the copy. That way you can use \ to
compare the original conversion with any
tweaks you've been making.
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Panel Trick for
Impatient People
Have you noticed that when you expand
or collapse a panel, it gently (and argu-
ably slowly) animates this sequence (in
other words, they don't snap open—they
“glide” open). If you'd like to skip the fancy
gliding and have those panels snap open/
closed the moment you click on them,
just
Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click)
on them instead.
itself and choose Show Clipping Indica-
tors from the pop-up menu to turn it off,
and they'll be tucked out of sight. If you
want them back, go back to that same
pop-up menu, and choose Show Clipping
Indicators again.
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Separating Your Virtual
Black & Whites from the
Real Black & Whites
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Picking Zooms in the Detail Panel
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Tip for Using the Targeted
Adjustment Tool (TAT )
If you're using the HSL/Color/B&W
panel's TAT to tweak your B&W image,
you already know that you click-and-drag
the TAT within your image and it moves
the sliders that control the colors under-
neath it. However, you might find it easier
to move the TAT over the area you want to
adjust, and instead of dragging the TAT
up/down, use the
Up/Down Arrow keys
on your keyboard, and it will move the
sliders for you. If you press-and-hold the
Shift key while using the Up/Down Arrow
keys, the sliders move in larger increments.
To see just your vir tual B&W copies, go up
to the Library Filter bar (if it's not visible,
press the
\ [backslash] key
), and then
click on Attribute. When the Attribute
options pop down, click on the little
curled page icon at the far right of the bar
to show just the virtual copies. To see the
real original “master” B&W files, click the
filmstrip icon just to the left of it. To see
everything again (both the virtual and
original masters), click the None button.
If you Right-click inside the little preview
window in the Detail panel, a little
pop-up menu will appear where you
