A little editing tip that changes everything (well, sorta.)

Lightroom Classic

There was a time when photo-editing was simple: We had Aperture made by Apple. But then Apple decided to eliminate that fine piece of software, so the pro users were left to scramble. Many went to the dark side of Adobe.

And so that’s how I started using Lightroom.

I just put live on my store my Fuji Classic Neg preset for RAW files, for those of us that rather shoots in RAW and use Lightroom to develop their pictures.

But here’s something I want to share with you all. There is a little known trick on Lightroom to make your picture look awesome.

While trying to crack the exact vibe of the new fujifilm film simulation (it will only appears in the X-Pro3 and X-T3), I had to rediscover how to keep the warm tone of a picture. I don’t usually process that much my pictures – I’m not trying to re-create a preset done by someone else or a “look” of a famous photographer. I just delivers a cinematic look (last wedding I shot).

And so here’s tone splitting for you.

It allows to give a color tonality to the highlights or Shadows. It’s that simple.

And that’s it for tone splitting. Don’t overdo it: a decade ago I went hard with this “red in the low tone” hue. It does not last in time well.

For a timeless photo, low saturation, colder tone seems more appropriate. I think the magic of the Classic Negative from Fuji is the ability to have a subtle warm tone to the pictures while having deep blues and greens.

Cheers,

JP