White Balance Setting

If we want to perform color corrections in our picture and we want these colors to be interpreted correctly, we must first specify the white balance. Or in other words, Lightroom lets you know which pixel has the white color.
You have several ways to set the white balance of a photo.
One way is to select the dropper in the histogram window (1), move the mouse pointer across a portion of the photo that you think should be white (2) and click.
When the mouse pointer moves over the photo, you see a preview of your picture in the navigation panel(3).
With the sliders “Temperature” and “Tint” (4), you can make the colors warmer or cooler.

Exposure, Recovery…

Once you set the white balance, adjust the “Exposure”, the “Recovery”, the “Fill Light” and the “Blacks”.

Exposure: Lets you adjust the brightness of the image. Drag the slider until the photo looks good and the whites are at the right level.

Recovery: Reduces the tones of extreme highlights and attempts to recover the highlight detail lost due to overexposure. If you applied too much exposure you have the ability to handle this in “Recovery”.

Fill Light: Lightens shadows.

Blacks: Lets you determine which image values should appear black. When you drag the slider to the right, it takes the areas that appear black, so gives the impression that the image contrast is increased. Hold down the Alt key on your keyboard while you drag the handle, you see the black pixels appear in your photo and in this way you can visually see them being removed.

Brightness adjust the brightness of the midtones in the image. Large brightness adjustments can affect shadow or highlight clipping.

Contrast: Adjusts the image contrast to be increased or decreased. This affects the midtones. If you increase contrast, the dark colors become darker and the light colors become lighter.

Tone Curve

With the various levers in the “Tone Curve” panel, we can adjust the “Highlights”, the “Lights”, the “Darks” and “Shadows” in the photo.
The curve itself shows the adjustments already made in the image.
Using the contrast button lets you make changes to the light curve. Default is set to “Linear”, but you have other options to try.
If do not expect major changes. You can use these settings when you start customizing the colors.

The HSL / Color / Black / White panel

The HSL / Color / Black / White panel allows us to adjust the hue, saturation, luminance, the color and black / white.
If you choose HSL, you can include each color in the photo in the “Hue” tab. Under each of these tabs in the HSL panel you have the “Direct operation” (1) button. When you click it, then you can adjust the hue, saturation or luminance modify directly in the image.

Click the button and click and drag in the image.
You will see that the sliding levers will automatically be moved.
Click this button again to turn this feature off.
For the rest you’ll have to try these options. Moreover, these are different for each picture.
What I can tell you is when you want to see the picture in black/white, the quickest way to do this is to click the V key on your keyboard.
Repeat this to display the photo back in color display.

Split Toning

Split Toning is a way to get color in a black / white photographs.
You can select a color for the “Highlights” and a color for the “Shadows”.
You can do this by dragging the slider levers (1) or by double-clicking the color picker (2) and selecting a color in the color box that appears.

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