Adobe Lightroom is one of the most used tools to edit, organize, store and share photos from your computer or mobile. If you want to start using this tool, it is important that you know three basic aspects of editing that, if you master them, can give you super interesting results. These parameters are inside the HSL (Hue / Saturation / Luminance) panel and are the Hue, Saturation and Lightness controls.
First of all, we must remind you that Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a paid service, although you can try it for free for seven days. To do this, you just have to go to the Lightroom site and choose if we want to log in with our Adobe ID to try the web version or download and install the desktop version of the Adobe tool if we click on Try free.
What is the HSL panel for
As we said, this panel of tools will allow you to play with the tones of a photo, as well as take advantage of the saturation or luminance of a complete image or of only some colors. Along with the white balance and tint, calibration and tone curve tool, the HSL panel is the one that allows us to make more radical changes in our images.
First, open an image in Lightroom and select the panel within the Develop module . You will find this module on the right margin next to the Library and Map options.
Tone tab
The first thing you are going to see here is the Tone tab. In it you will see that you can vary the tone towards its previous or later tone of the following colors:
- Red
- Orange
- Yellow
- Green
- Aquamarine
- Blue
- Purple
- Magenta
Color submenu
Within HSL there is a submenu that indicates “HSL / Color” that allows you to adjust parameters individually for each image color. To activate this submenu you just have to click on the word “Color” and all the options will be displayed.
In this submenu instead of finding the settings grouped as in HSL, what we will see are the different colors and within each one three settings that we can modify: hue, saturation, luminance. To use it you just have to slide the tab as we have seen in the HSL.
Black and White tab
In some editions of Lightroom we find next to the HSL and Color tabs a Black and White call that allows you to transform your images to Black and White with manual adjustments, in a very different way than the automatic conversion button to black and white. .
Saturation tab
If you continue advancing through the HSL panel, the next thing you will see is the Saturation tab. As its name suggests, sliding from left to right we can respectively decrease or increase the saturation of each of the basic colors, which are the same as those we have seen in the Tone tab.
Keep in mind that if you raise the saturation of a color, it will predominate over all the others and on the contrary, if you lower it you can attenuate them until they disappear.
Luminance tab
Next, you will see the Luminance tab. Thanks to this you can lighten or darken any of the basic tones of the image. This function is extremely useful if you want to lighten some specific areas that are very dark or vice versa, attenuate tones that have been burned or overexpose burned or overexposed that have been too dark or darken certain tones that are too overexposed
