Lightroom Mag June-July

Lightroom Magazine
The great part of using presets is that after you apply one,
you can make little tweaks to the settings to really speed
up your workflow. The Sunset preset includes a couple of
Graduated Filters, one for darkening the sky, the other for
darkening the foreground. Press M to switch to the Graduated
Filter, and then click on a pin to make it active. Here,
I clicked on the top pin and adjusted this gradient so that
it goes from cold to warm by changing the Temp to –20.
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The Sunset preset also included a Radial Filter that added
warmth and magenta to the photo, as well as boosting the
Exposure. I pressed Shift-M to switch to the Radial Filter tool,
clicked on the pin, and then moved it over toward the center
to make the color of the sun pop. I suggest that you
use the Range Mask settings (at the bottom of the panel)
to make the changes more natural because, here, the tint
of the Radial Filter covers the buildings. Setting the Range
Mask to Luminance and moving the left Range slider to the
right (to 76) decreases the effect on the buildings and creates
a much more natural effect. (Note: If you have an older
version of Lightroom that doesn’t have the Range Mask
feature, you can use the Temp and Tint sliders to lower the
intensity of the sun to keep a natural look to your photo.)
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