Comments on: Add a light Source in Lightroom in 5 Easy Steps

By: Jayme

Jayme — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:29:14 +0000

Any suggestions for how to accomplish this in PSE 6…?

By: Helen Bradley

Helen Bradley — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:15:32 +0000

Hi Lee..

Look in the image for Step 4 above, you will see it next to the Reset option in the foot of the panel that you are using to set the sliders. It is immediately above the panel name Basic. It’s hard to see if you don’t actually expect it to be there.

cheers

Helen

By: Lee A

Lee A — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:01:41 +0000

With the Effect Sliders visible, increase the Exposure and then, if desired, adjust the Brightness and Clarity sliders. Click Close when done.

WHERE IS the CLICK CLOSE IN LR???

By: Travis Forsyth

Travis Forsyth — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:29:54 +0000

Well written guide and very handy to boot!

By: TylerG

TylerG — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:43:34 +0000

rusty,

How is this done in Camera Raw? I’ve been trying to go through it but I don’t see an option for the Graduated Filter. I may be missing it….can you let me know where it is? Thanks.

Tyler

By: Joe Houghton

Joe Houghton — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:18:17 +0000

A little addition to Helen’s great tip is that you can use multiple instances of a grad filter on one photo, so you could also, for instance, add some light from below by creating a separate grad filer instance and dragging up from the bottom. As always though, be careful not to overdo things – less is often more in these manipulations!

By: Rusty Sterling

Rusty Sterling — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:16:09 +0000

This tip also applies to Adobe Camera Raw. I use it like this from time to time. Thanks for sharing.

By: tony

tony — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:43:21 +0000

I have Lightroom but I am having problems getting started

By: Bob Towery

Bob Towery — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:52:47 +0000

I’m a dedicated LR user and a fan of the GND tool, but DANG, I didn’t know about turning on the effects sliders! I thought each GND could only do one thing. This is great! Appreciate this post very much.

By: NicoleinJapan

NicoleinJapan — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:32:57 +0000

Great article! I’ve been using Lightroom for quite some time now, and have even been using the graduated filter for some time as well, but I’ve only ever really used it for darkening or adding blue hues to a bland sky. I don’t know why it never occured to me to use the graduated filter from the side to create another light source! And I never realized there was a “custom” setting either – all this time I’ve been creating multiple filters to add on top of one another! Thank you so much for this article! It’s opened my eyes!

-NicoleinJapan