Show or hide the develop toolbar, Tools in the tool strip, Additional develop module buttons and tools – Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC User Manual

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Processing and developing photos

Last updated 4/20/2015

• The Basic panel contains the main tools for adjusting the photo’s white balance, color saturation, and tonal scale.

• The Tone Curve and HSL/Color/B&W panels contain tools for fine-tuning your color and tonal adjustments.

• The Split Toning panel colors monochrome images or creates special effects with color images.

• The Detail panel lets you adjust sharpness and reduce noise.

• The Lens Corrections panel lets you correct chromatic aberration and lens vignetting caused by the camera lens.

• The Effects panel lets you apply a vignette to a cropped photo or add a film-grain effect.

• The Camera Calibration panel makes adjustments to the default calibration settings for your camera.

Show or hide the Develop toolbar

Choose View > Show Toolbar or Hide Toolbar, or press the T key.

Tools in the tool strip

Tools for performing local edits to specific areas of a photo are located in the tool strip under the Histogram panel.
Select any tool to display its options in the tool drawer. Deselect the tool to close the drawer and revert to the Hand or
Zoom tool.

Crop Overlay

Includes the Crop Overlay tool, Crop Frame tool, Aspect Ratio Lock button and options, Straighten tool,

and Straighten slider.

Spot Removal

Includes Clone or Heal options and the Size slider. Click Reset to clear the changes to the photo.

Red Eye Correction

Includes Pupil Size and Darken sliders. Click Reset to clear the changes to the photo.

Graduated Filter

Includes options for making tonal adjustments across a region of a photo.

Adjustment Brush

Includes options for brushing Exposure, Clarity, Brightness, and other tonal adjustments on specific

areas of a photo.

Additional Develop module buttons and tools

Hand/Zoom tool

When you hold the pointer over the photo, R, G, and B color values display under the Histogram. The

tool that appears changes depending on your view. The Zoom tool is selected if the magnification is Fit. The Hand tool
is selected if the magnification is Fill, 1:1, or higher. Click the photo to toggle between Fit and 1:1.

White Balance Selector

Click this tool in the Basic panel, choose it from the View menu, or press W to select it. Options

appear in the toolbar.

Targeted Adjustment

Lets you adjust certain color and tone sliders by dragging the tool in the photo. Select it in the

Tone Curve or HSL/Color/B&W panels, or choose it from the View menu. Once the tool is selected, you can choose
different targets from the Target Group pop-up menu in the toolbar.

Loupe View

Although this single-photo view is available in both the Develop and Library modules, the keyboard

shortcut for Loupe view in the Develop module (the D key) is different from the keyboard shortcut in the Library
module (the E key). The Loupe View button, located in the toolbar, lets you quickly switch to Loupe view in each
module.

Copy and Paste

These buttons at the bottom of the left panels let you copy or paste the current settings to a selected

photo.

Previous, Sync, and Auto Sync

These buttons at the bottom of the right panels toggle according to whether you have

one or more photos selected in the Filmstrip. If only one photo is selected, the Previous button lets you copy and paste
all of the settings of the previously selected photo to the currently selected photo on the Filmstrip. If multiple files are
selected, the Sync button lets you choose which of the current settings to paste from the currently selected photo onto

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