Thanks. Anyone know how to do levels on LR ?
Put simply Lightroom has a much more sophisticated version of Levels which allow you to adjust the extreme highlights and shadows, highlights and shadows, and overall mid-tones.
In the Develop Module and in the Basic panel (RHS) the sliders work as follows:
Highlights – highlights
Shadows – shadows
Whites – extreme highlights
Blacks – extreme shadows
And above these the Exposure slider which adjusts the mid-tones.
If you look at the Histogram display above the sliders a paler grey vertical rectangle appears when you hover your curser over each of the sliders showing which part of the image tones are being adjusted.
If you want to see what is clipping click on the little triangles above and to the extreme right and left of histogram display.
It’s a different way of working from Photoshop’s Levels but once you get used to it produces superior results.
I hope this helps Alan.