On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > Think about what each tag means, make big adjustments and watch the results. > You can always restore the default. For example, "hue," it means the > direction in which the overall color leans. Go one way, and you'll get more > magenta. Go the other way, you'll get more green. "Saturation:" How saturated > is the color? More saturation will give you more colorful colors -- if you'll > excuse the redundancy. "Luminance;" Although I'm an ACR user and not a > lightroom user, I would guess this gives you more midrange brightness, much > like the brightness knob in ACR. (Don't know why Adobe doesn't use the same > terminology.) But make an adjustment and watch.
Thanks, Paul. I guess experience -- especially if it includes experimenting -- will teach me. As mentioned in a previous response, I did "fiddle with the knobs" with one especially awful image. [I figured I couldn't make it worse.] It's an unsalvageable image, but I was able to improve it in some ways. Good that I can always go back to the default. Which raises another question: When I make changes to an image in LR, do I need to save them, or are the saved automatically? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.