RGB and LAB Numbers in Lightroom Classic

[@ЖеняШарлотский]

Absolutely brilliant! The best explanation of Lab colors I could find in whole Internet!

[@ravellescherer1881]

I love that you go more in-depth. I agree with other comments that having the WHY allows me to use the tools in a more flexible way. Thanks for these videos, I always learn something new.

[@almostgreen9498]

I agree!

[@scottguthormsen9110]

Superb video Ben! I could watch hours of your insight on white balance and color balancing.

[@IanWhiting]

Love the technical insights. No one else I know gives such great information in such a well-understood way. Thank you

[@DigitalMastery]

Glad you found it to be useful. Thanks for the comment... they help give me the mental energy to create more videos.

[@sbbrasseur]

BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT!! I had an extremely comfortable knowledge base of white balance but you just pushed it up even higher and more useful for me. Just subscribed and looking to see what else you talk about. Thank you!

[@thomashackett8094]

That was really interesting. You validated my understanding of saturation, and for the first time I understand the meaning of a and b in LAB mode.

[@DigitalMastery]

Yay! Love when concepts start to make sense.

[@CP-gj2jl]

This video and the "match Color of Two Areas in Lightroom Classic" are the most insightful videos into the practical use of colours in Lightroom that I have seen on KZbin. Your style of describing the topic is well done and easy to understand. Great channel, keep up the good work.

[@ianbraithwaite9563]

Hi Ben, fantastic information and explanation of how it all worked. With practise this is surely going to improve my images along with making them consistent. Thank You much appreciated.

[@MikeGiovinazzo]

Wow - super insightful. A whole new set of tricks for my white balancing - many thanks

[@daveyoung9517]

MORE please!!! I learned something new with this and I love it!!!

[@CJGlynnPhotography]

Great, in-depth exploration of color. Using Lab color mode has helped me greatly!!

[@caseymalone3662]

Very helpful information. You are a gifted teacher.

[@scomart]

The concept of masking for different white balance never occurred to me. Excellent tutorial.

[@paulehjertaas2319]

very interesting. I learn new stuff every time I watch one of your videos. thank you.

[@almostgreen9498]

I LOVE you getting into this more technical side!!!!

[@J5388T]

This video is superb, its the best practical explanation of how to manage color Ive seen by a long way and I'm well versed in using the Adobe software. Thank you and I'll happily watch more of this sort of video!

[@jerryandgaylesmilack1493]

Excellent discussion, Ben.

[@hani7up]

Yes Ben, I for one would be interested. Thanks yet again fro a wonderful tutorial!

[@cpowellfreelance]

Great video and information, this is definitely a game changer for me! Thanks!

[@keithpinn152]

Hi Ben: Thanks for creating and sharing this video. I really enjoy these 'in-depth' videos so keep them coming. Your presentation really allowed me to have a deeper appreciation for the RBG and Luminance values of an image. I have also used Capture One Pro and this concept is very front & centre as you reviewing images. I am so glad I can now see this in LR. Now, if LR could only show you exactly where your focus point is similar to what can be displayed in Nikon's NX Viewer. Keep well. Cheers, Keith

[@castockwell1753]

This tutorial was the perfect level for me. I have been using Lr pretty heavily for several years but you cleared up several mysteries for me, like how to determine if there is color cast in scenes with mixed lighting - and how to go about correcting it. Your speaking /presentation speed was at the 4ight Goldilocks level for me, as well. Thanks so much. I would like to hear you explain how to manipulate the microtones in b&w images to get them to “pop”.

[@j.n.990]

Excellent tutorial...please add more on this subject.

[@kenstickrod840]

Thanks a ton I love the how and even more the why of doing White Balance. It's a yes to more like this and I believe I'll incorporate this technique into my work flow ASAP.

[@JillClardy]

Very helpful info; I'm sure I'll come back to take another look the next time I encounter an image with mixed lighting.

[@ringvolt8229]

Yes, more in-depth training would be great!! You are one of the rare instructors who explains WHY and that allows me to apply the tools in multiple ways. But it would be even better if you did some Affinity Photo training - that field is wide open!

[@hafensteinsongparodies6958]

Love the deep dive!

[@ajsevents6527]

WOw, I've been using LR for 20 years. Only now do fully understand the histogram and how to set color values

[@cliffk808]

Great tutorial. Yes, I would be interested too!

[@GiTr14]

Yes, continue with more technical details

[@drwatsonismine]

This is great. Continue with more! So helpful.

[@lesladbrook4508]

Yes, I love this stuff Ben.

[@NigelKing]

Very interesting Ben 👍

[@edarnould1494]

Very informative Thanks

[@ZOly62]

A-m-a-z-i-n-g tutorial Ben again, you are a great, great teacher! As somebody says It would be nice if you could share your JPG image with the color gradients for this lesson/explanation, but nevertheless It is exellent without it. It would be nice to go further with this technical details, because no one goes so deep into this issues as you did. Some comments shows that you have more space to go further in some detailed explanation of different situations and examples which could be tricky or confusing. Tutorial about skin issues would be nice too, we know some relationship standards between R-G-B in postprocessing skin but I would like to watch your lesson about that and including LAB color values too. I am deeply impressed by your attitude and way of teaching things in Ps and Lr.

[@janegreen8383]

So very helpful - thank you!

[@luap1983]

This was sooooo helpful thank you

[@sedkiification]

A master is always a master, for soo many years, thank you. P Please speak about soft proofing

[@photonsonpixels]

Great tutorial Benn! Thank you for going in detail in your technical explanations; very helpful indeed. Note aside: It would be nice if you could share your JPG image with the color gradients :)

[@DigitalMastery]

For now, just make a screen shot when the gradients are visible. I might eventually set up something to provide files, but am not quite set up for it yet.

[@photonsonpixels]

@@DigitalMastery Thank you!

[@davidkravitz6893]

As always, you provide a wonderfully clear technical explanation of your topic. In this case, it might have been interesting to touch on why/whether one should white balance. Doing so eliminates color effects that are real and would have affected one's perceptions at the time. Would one white balance a photo intentionally taken during the blue hour to eliminate the blue?

[@descoates6460]

Thank you Ben... very helpful. I would like to see similar for soft proofing. (I have some of your videos from Creative Live}

[@judithbarat7701]

Yes, more please!

[@Mudly71]

Loved this never knew about the numbers before. One thing I would like to also know what numbers are you looking for printing so you are not printing pure white or pure black? Thankyou for your time.

[@thommyandersen1522]

Yes, like more in depth tutorials - this one was super!! I am just a little confused on howto adjust white balance in a photo that have white areas that are slightly lit in some way. Either by a warm light source or the cold sky for instance, or both. Which white part to choose as a reference? In these cases it makes more sense to look at the image instead of the numbers whilst adjusting white balance. Or?

[@jody1622]

Yes, very interested!

[@robertreynoldsiii2507]

More on this topic would be goog.

[@exogendesign4582]

This is great the only thing Lightroom is lacking is how to deal with skin, I can get the brightness through lab colors but I still use omniscope to get perfect skin, I've search on the internet about the best lab values for skin values for both asian and caucassian and black but still not see any useful tips. But this give me a better understanding on the LAB values. Thank you.

[@eagleeye1226]

Its a great video. I just dont know what to do, when I dont have a white/black or grey point in a picture to correct the white balance. Is there another tipp pls?

[@the_light_cinema]

i have downloaded the image of RGB palette when i put my mouse on top of blue color , i dont have 100 percent blue. would you share your image ?

[@Brockdorf]

I am using Lightroom 6.4, is there a way to get an average RGB of a face. When you create a mask Lightroom can automatically select all the facial skin, but I don't see how to get the histogram of the data?

[@francescoricci3956]

Just a little correction: at the end of the video you say that if you open the image in Ps the numbers don't match cause of the different color space, "unless you open the image in Prophoto RGB, then they will match." This is wrong because the RGB numbers in Lightroom are in percentage from 0 to 100 %. In Photoshop whatever the color space, the numbers are from 0 to 255. Within Camera Raw this is different because the RGB numbers already match exactly to the Color Space you set for the Output, and they are from 0 to 255 exactly like in Photoshop.

[@avnerbenzvi8757]

Thanks

[@grahamroberts4057]

Unfortunately I had to let go of my Masters academy subscription a while back, and you soon forget without your guidance how valuable it is, so I'll be back as soon as I can. What a great Video though this one is.. Just one question though how do you keep your white balance pointer out once you click on a point.?

[@DigitalMastery]

There is an option in the lower left of your screen to keep it visible. Just turn off the Auto Dismiss checkbox.

[@robertstonephoto]

ACR has a color picker that places these values from multiple image locations on a toolbar. But can't find this in LR. Is this hidden somewhere?

[@ZOly62]

You don`t have that possibilities in Lr. You can get RGB value just from one location at the time.

[@kbqvist]

Any advice on getting great skin tones using these numbers, from readings on the skin?

[@DigitalMastery]

Keep reference images where you know you like the skin tones and then pay attention to the A and B numbers in LAB when applying adjustments to other images (you can use reference view to compare two shots). How far higher is one than the other of those numbers for tan skin vs pale skin, etc. The issue with skin is when you try to make a pale person tan... you have to make sure the dark areas of the skin don't become too colorful. I don't shoot people much, otherwise I'd do a video on it. If I had a lot of people shots (other than yoga ones where my wife's face is not usually prominent in the shot), then I could do a bunch about skin.

[@kbqvist]

@@DigitalMastery Thanks Ben, those are helpful ideas :-)

[@ZNARFPRODUCTIONS]

Thx Ben, always something to offer....? does Tesla make an RV. lol

[@DigitalMastery]

I wish. Would love to see an RV based on the upcoming Tesla semi with solar covering the roof and their heat pump technology for HVAC and water heating.