Better Color Management with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

One good thing about digital photography is that when you take photos, you create digital images. And with digital images, there are options for editing which ranges from image sharpening to color saturations to removing unwanted objects. The options and possibilities are almost infinite, depending on the image editing tool that you’re using.

With the current digital imaging technology, hundreds (or maybe thousands) of image editing software became available. For my images, I only use Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. For extreme and hardcore image alterations and special effects, I use Adobe Photoshop but for quick fixes such as hue, saturation and brightness manipulations I use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Since I first learned about the software in 2006, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom instantly became my favorite. And though Adobe Photoshop still remain the more powerful when it comes to hardcore image manipulations but the simplicity of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom makes it more functional, if not most useful of all image editors. One of my favorite functions in this software is the HSL (Hue/Saturation/Luminance) panel. It allows you to control the HSL properties of the images per color which could be a lot difficult if you’ll use the conventional Photoshop.

.one: the blue sky has been desaturated, .two: the red balls had been, .three: the orange balls have been saturated a little

If you will compare the above posted photo to its raw image, you would clearly notice how the red and yellow colors had been saturated while the blue and green colors were desaturated a little. Using the Hue/Saturation adjustment function of the traditional Adobe Photoshop could only either make all the colors saturated or all of them desaturated.

As you go on with your digital image editing, you’ll find a point where you’d realize the importance of controlling the colors individually instead of having all of them to change at once.