• aln@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    I went down a rabbit hole of YouTube videos and ultimately ended up on like… One set of settings I pretty much do for most images.

    Lens Correction. Exposure; click eyedropper

    Basic Adjustments. Color Balance RGB Global Saturation 30% Global Chrome 15% Local Contrast Detail 130%

    Filmic RGB. Click black relative exposure Click white relative exposure

    Crop image

    I would love to hear/read some more stuff. I’m an extremely basic photographer who didn’t want to pay for Adobe.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      8 days ago

      Yeah I’d say something like that is my baseline too, usually just some added vibrance instead of saturation on the color balance RGB.

      I think the tone curve, RGB curve, tone equalizer and colour equalizer are useful if you want a bit more if a look in your images

    • crater2150@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 days ago

      This is mostly what I use too. Additionally, on images with high ISO I usually add the profiled denoise module, often without changing the default values. If the image has a lot of noise, I sometimes use the preset that only reduces chroma noise (so the image stays grainy, but without the color mismatches)