Please respect my intellectual property and do not share this image. The Raw file used in the second half of this tutorial can be downloaded here: Graduated Filters.dng Go the Donations page or click on this link Hold the left mouse button down and drag the mouse across the image to place the Graduated filter. The Graduated filter panel opens up beneath, revealing the sliders that you can adjust.

Click on the Graduated filter icon underneath the Histogram (the keyboard shortcut for it is M). If you find the eBook helpful please consider making a donation to support the web hosting costs and creation of new content. This is how you apply a Graduated Filter in Lightroom. Help Me Create Additional Learning Resources: With my full-frame Sony sensors I find that I just need to exposure for the sky and restore the shadows in post-production editing. This Lightroom tutorial will show you how to usage of adjustment brush instead of graduated filters, editing the individual parts of the image in order to create the look you need. In some instances, where the subject brightness range is high, you may still prefer to use a graduated filter in front of the camera lens. The big brother to the graduated filters is adjustment brush, this tool is absolutely necessary for any editor.

In this tutorial I demonstrate the use of Graduated Filters in Lightroom to not only modify tone, but also colour temperature.Īs the subject brightness range (SBR) is not particularly high at the time of day that I captured theses images, I did not need to use a graduated filter in fron of the camera lens to prevent clipping or overexposure of the sky.Īpplying graduated filters in post-production has many advantages as you will see in the movie.

Lightroom 4 graduated filter tutorial