{"id":8591,"date":"2017-08-01T08:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2017-08-01T08:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T08:39:44","slug":"tips-for-tat-lightrooms-magic-targeted-adjustment-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/tips-for-tat-lightrooms-magic-targeted-adjustment-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"TIPS FOR TAT : Lightroom’s Magic Targeted Adjustment Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Magic Tool: <\/b>T<\/strong>argeted A<\/strong>djustment T<\/strong>ool<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Learning to master color in Lightroom can vastly improve our photographs. When I teach Lightroom to photo students, we learn many of its hidden tools. One of these secretive tools is a lot like Harry Potter’s Phoenix wand. It lets you become a color wizard. Let me present Adobe Lightroom’s Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT), your magic want for changing color properties.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Understanding how to change properties of color is a useful skill. Anybody can saturate an image, but with the TAT we’ll shift color hues, change the brightness of a range of color, simplify color, and make our subject matter more luminous and clear. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

FINDING THE TOOL<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lightroom’s Targeted Adjustment Tool (TAT) is the small circular dot under the word Hue, located in the Develop Module panel that is labeled HSL \/ Color \/ BW panel. The TAT lets us make powerful changes to the properties of colors. With it, we can\u00a0<\/span><\/span>selectively change the color range in an image by its property. By color property we mean its hue, saturation and luminance (brightness).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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WARM UP:<\/em> open Lightroom and select the Develop Module. Before we begin the tutorial steps, let’s make sure just the HSL panel is expanded, and collapse all the other panels. Right Click on the top of the HSL panel<\/strong> and scroll down to CLICK\u00a0<\/strong>Solo Mode.<\/b> This displays only the one panel you are working on, hiding the rest, so we no longer have to scroll between panels.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

TUTORIAL FOR LIGHTROOM’S TARGETED ADJUSTMENT TOOL<\/b><\/h2>\n

1) START:<\/b>\u00a0With the\u00a0HSL<\/b> (Hue-Saturation-Luminance) panel open, we see HSL \/ COLOR \/ B & W at the top of the panel. First step was to\u00a0click on the word Hue.<\/b><\/p>\n