Making General Adjustments

In the General group, you can make global adjustments to your image.

You can save your settings as a preset for future use.

To Adjust Your Image in General:

  1. In Develop mode, select the Tune tab.
  2. In the General group, make adjustments as described below.

General Options

Treatment

Select Color or Black & White mode.

Exposure

Drag the slider to the right to increase exposure, or drag to the left to decrease exposure. One eV is equivalent to one stop of exposure change.

Highlight Recovery

Drag the slider to the right to recover detail in overexposed areas of the image.

Fill Light

Drag the slider to the right to add light to the darkest areas of the image.

Contrast

Drag the slider to the right to increase contrast or to the left to decrease contrast.

Saturation

Drag the slider to the right to increase saturation, or to the left to decrease saturation.

Vibrance

Drag the slider to the right to increase vibrance or to the left to decrease vibrance. Increasing the vibrance does not affect skin tone in an image.

Clarity

Drag the slider to the right to increase clarity or to the left to decrease clarity.

Dehaze

The Dehaze tool restores contrast, detail, and lost color to images. This is especially useful for images that have been captured through a haze. A haze can occur when dust, smoke, or other particles obscure the clarity of the image, particularly the sky. Drag the slider to the right to reduce haze.

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