Comments on: Making sense of Clarity, Vibrance and Saturation in Lightroom 2

By: Alison Greenwood

Alison Greenwood — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:13:04 +0000

WOW! I just used the vibrance and was amazed at what a difference it made! WOW! Thank you so much for this tip!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:47:08 +0000

That was a great, concise explanation of three settings I’ve used but was never entirely clear on.

By: Owens Daniels

Owens Daniels — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:45:58 +0000

I am a big LightRoom fan and use it to edit all my work. I use the three bands and until this article, really did not know how they worked together or separate. I want to thank you very much for clearing this up and opening the door to better photo-editing.

By: vicknes

vicknes — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:28:14 +0000

hi there, thanks for the tips. I’ve been shooting quite a number of indian events such as indian cultural wedding, temple festival and some religious events and as we know they are all very colorful and thanks to this tutorial for guiding me to bring out the vibrant of the “rangoli” colors.

By: Keith_Indy

Keith_Indy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:27:31 +0000

Just learned about these a couple weekends ago (@ a Rocky Mountain School of Photography weekend, for any US viewers.) They are great tools, and you explained them well. I would suggest you show them going negative aw well. Clarity going negative by small amounts is like a soft focus, but going to 100 can give a dream like quality to some photo's. For instance, here in this photo of mine.

By: Victor

Victor — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:06:02 +0000

In the later Lightroom versions, you can also apply these settings to parts of the picture via the adhustment brushes. There is even a preset for skin softening.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:56:55 +0000

I would also recommend on Clarity that by going into negatives, it softens a photo, which is great for portraits. I use it very sparingly though, as I only want to soften a persons face, and don’t want to lose the sharpness in their hair, eyes, lips, or clothing.

Ultimately, its best to simply use the Adjustment Brush.

Great article.

By: Tibian

Tibian — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:15:12 +0000

Excellent examples of using Saturation, Vibrance and Clarity. I’ll include in my workflow.

Looking forward to the sharpening article.

Thank you.

Tibian.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:13:17 +0000

Hi Darren
Thanks for the timely advice. I have just been playing around with Vibrance and saturation…wondering where the difference was. I had a landscape I was trying to give a bit more oomph! However the saturation control in
Camera Raw was definatley over saturating some areas. The vibrance slider does give a more subtle effect.
Cheers
Greg

By: Dexter

Dexter — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:21:28 +0000

Apologies for my last message. The comment is suppose to address Darren. Not Helen. Sorry for messing things up.