The most UNDERUSED tool in Adobe LIGHTROOM | The Calibration Panel

The calibration panel is probably the most underused and at the same time one of the most powerful tools in Adobe Lightroom Classic CC 2023.
In this video I explain to you why I think it's so underused, what it is, how it works and how you can incorporate in into your workflow to get better colours.
Once you've started using the Camera Calibration Panel in Lightroom you're never going to look at color, Hue and Saturation the same.
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[@thomas.mosel.photography]

Thanks Marcel, great tutorial without blah blah and no click bait. Keep going! I see more and more youtubers telling nothing. Your channel is different.

[@marcelohm123]

I appreciate that!

[@tkdive4784]

Thank you for your, in my opinion, very refreshing, direct, and genuinely honest presentation. Your enthusiasm resonates with the viewer, certainly with me, and even though I have used calibration in the past, you have truly opened my eyes to it. Very good work!

[@marcelohm123]

Thank you so much for your kind words!

[@BarrySachais]

To move the Calibration panel to the top, or wherever you want it, right-click on any panel and select "Customize Develop Panel". A new window opens. Click on the "hamburger" on the left and drag the Calibration panel to your desired location. Restart Lightroom for the change to be applied.

[@marcelohm123]

Wait, you're actually able to drag all the panels in Lightroom around?? How come I've never seen ANYONE who has he panels in a different order? This is an absolute game changer! Thank you so much Barry.

[@renrenhk1717]

thanks! useful tool! xoxo

[@marcelohm123]

You're welcome!

[@josdenis3684]

Great tutorial! Thank you!

[@marcelohm123]

Thank you!

[@Badger220455]

The blue slider definitely makes a big difference.

[@techguymia]

awesome video, i am going to follow it with my next edits see how it goes. thankssss!!!!

[@marcelohm123]

Go for it! Maybe sure to give us an update on how it went.

[@GregShaw]

A brilliant clear example with no waffle. I often see people leave this to the end, due to where its located. Makes more sense to set the initial colours using this first. Love your channel and these videos on using the other parts of Lightroom which often do not get mentioned much. Great work and keep on going!!

[@marcelohm123]

Thank you Greg! I appreciate it a lot.

[@ericpecquerie4868]

I just discovered your channel. You have a talent that not so many have. You explain extremely clearly and, in my case, I applied immediately what I learnt and it was stunning. Congratulations. Please continue.

[@marcelohm123]

Man, all those years on Instagram certainly made me forget how nice people can actually be on the internet 😂 Thank you so much for your kind words. As someone just starting out they really mean a lot o me.

[@jordanking7711]

Excellent explanation Marcel, except the Camera Calibration panel doesn't 'need' to be at the end of your workflow. If you deem that it should be near the beginning, you can rearrange the panels to suit you. You don't always need to accept where the panels are as is. Take for instance the Lens Correction panel. You wouldn't use that panel at the end of your workflow because you would end up throwing all your colours off, so it makes sense to move that one too to the beginning. To rearrange the panels: In the Develop Module, right click any of the panels and then choose 'Customize Develop Panel' > A dialogue box will then appear with three lines next to each of the Develop Module options, all you need to then do is left click hold and drag around any of the options to where you think they 'should' go, and then click Save. It will require a restart of Lightroom Classic, but as soon as you do that, your panels will be in their customized position.

[@marcelohm123]

I actually made an entire video about the fact that you can rearrange the panels because someone pointed it out after I recorded this video, just like you did. Even though I've been using Lightroom for 8 years at this point I never knew about this.

[@leamuller6151]

Very helpfull and interesting thank you! :) Und grüße aus Bayern

[@marcelohm123]

Na dann mal ganz liebe Grüße zurück. :) Und schön, dass ich was hilfreiches weitergeben konnte.

[@leamuller6151]

@@marcelohm123 Vielen Dank :D Ja absolut so finde ich Tutorials klasse! Viel Erfolg dir hier auf KZbin :)

[@marcelohm123]

@@leamuller6151 Vielen Dank. Ich werd mein bestes geben. :D

[@holgerglaab8182]

Vielen Dank! Werde ich ausprobieren.

[@marcelohm123]

Sehr gerne Holger. Bin gespannt, was du drauß machst :)

[@Adobo9999]

Das mit dem neutralen Profil für den Import war mir nicht bewusst. Super Tipp - hab wieder was gelernt!

[@marcelohm123]

Das freut mich doch! Generell lohnt es sich meiner Meinung nach auf jeden Fall, sich mal mit den unterschiedlichen Profilen auseinanderzusetzen und zu schauen, mit welchem Profil man den für sich besten Startpunkt bekommt.

[@ruedigerjung65]

Hi Marcel - auch ich habe diese Funktion erst vor ca. einem Monat entdeckt - Ist echt gold wert. Manche Menus nutze ich gar nicht und habe sie nach unten geschoben = geil. 📸

[@marcelohm123]

Definitv, wie gesagt, auf jeden Fall eine meiner Lieblingsfunktionen in Lightroom.

[@shivansh2357]

Bro your production quality is lit , you just earned a subscriber ❤️ keep it up man 🫂

[@marcelohm123]

Thanks man! Means a lot. Still figuring out how to navigate the KZbin space, but comments like yours certainly make it a great experience so far

[@rellvilleterrace]

I could never find the calibration tool in Lightroom that’s why I always used camera raw filter

[@kormosta]

Maybe using C.Mixer also a bit can make it better in some occasions.

[@Anadrolus]

Amazing tutorial, you know my secret :D very few people talk about this blue saturation trick. Please explore the effect of luts profiles, they made the biggest impact on my colors (profiles NOT presets).

[@marcelohm123]

😁 It‘s true. But since finding out about the calibration panel I‘ve used it in every single one of my photos. Especially the blue slider. Yeah I might touch in that in the future. I think profiles are also very much overlooked in lightroom.

[@Randuski]

I’ve hated this for a while, cause I love the calibration options, but it’s not available in Lightroom mobile. Which is the only Lightroom I use 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@marcelohm123]

True, I‘ve been wondering for years if they will ever add the calibration Panel to Lightroom Mobile. However, there is a little workaround to at least get some of the goodness of the calibration panel on Mobile. If you create a Preset that uses the calibration panel on Desktop and import it into Lightroom mobile, it will have the same effect. So the mobile app is able to apply the changes made be the calibration panel, you just can‘t use it or further change it inside the app. So what you can do is make a few basic „calibration only“ presets with different looks/levels of saturation and then if you start editing an image on mobile you are first going to apply one of those presets and then start editing.

[@Randuski]

@@marcelohm123 this is a fabulous idea thank you 🙏