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SOME PHOTOSHOP INSPIRATION NEW COLOUR GRADING CONTROLS By Andrew Haysom
In the latest (October 2020) release of Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), Adobe have replaced the Split Toning controls with Color Grading. It has similar functionality but provides you with more control by adding a Midtones option to the Highlights and Shadows options that were available in the old Split Toning controls. In Lightroom Classic and ACR the Color Grading controls appear in their own dedicated panel, however in Lightroom and Lightroom mobile they appear as part of the Color panel. I will be showing the ACR panels in this article, which are identical in function to Lightroom Classic. If you have images or presets that have used the old Split Toning controls, when you use these in the new version the changes made will automatically be reflected in the Highlights and Shadows colour wheels in the Color Grading panel. The default view for the Color Grading panel shows you all three colour wheels, you can switch to other views by clicking on the icons next to the Adjust heading at the top of the panel (see Figure 1). The other views are Shadows wheel only, Midtones wheel only, Highlights wheel only and Global. [Figure 1 - Color Grading Three Wheel view]
[Fig 1 – Colour Grading Three Wheel View]
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