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Useful Photography Tip #74: Don’t Forget About the Color Channel Tools in Lightroom

Chris Gampat
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11/14/2013
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Today’s Useful Photography Tip is super quick and will require more of an effort on your behalf for you to actually see the differences.

When many people are starting out in Adobe Lightroom’s Develop interface, they tend to focus on the minor things like the saturation slider, vibrance, contrast, etc. But what they don’t know is that if you play with the color channels individually, you can bring greater life to your image through saturation of specific colors, changing the overall hues, and even changing how bright some of the color channels appear.

The next time you’re not in a rush to edit, give this one a try. And if you think this one is too simple, then why do people complain in forums about color depth so much? The truth is that modern day cameras have a color depth that is more than capable of handling every day needs but can be a bit more problematic when it comes to working with concerts or abnormal lighting.

Oh yeah–and if that isn’t enough then try making the blacks in your image deeper. Deeper blacks tend to fool the human eye into thinking that something is sharper than it really is.

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Chris Gampat

Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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