This lesson will guide you through a basic workflow for optimizing the overall tone and color in your digital images.

Discover how to create the highest quality image possible by harnessing the power within the Develop module in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Master the tools needed to enhance, refine, and add creative effects to your images using both global and local nondestructive image adjustments, including white balance, tone curves, vibrance, clarity, sharpening, and color enhancements. Also learn how to create presets to quickly apply these effects to multiple images and prepare your images for final delivery with speed and efficiency.

Trying to get the color in your photos saturated enough, but not too much (and without degrading the skin tones), is a very common problem for photographers. The new Vibrance adjustment in CS4 makes this task much easier.

Richard Harrington gives his top three reasons to upgrade to Photoshop CS4 at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Kevin Ames introduces the new adjustments layer panel in Photoshop CS4, vibrance, and demonstrates how to increase saturation of non-primary colors in images.

Richard Harrington shows you how to speed up your workflow using the vibrance adjustment, fine edge command, and mask panels in Photoshop CS4. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Richard Harrington shows you how to use the new vibrance adjustments in Photoshop CS4 to boost the saturation of a scene without affecting skin tones.

Correct the brightness and contrast of an image using editable adjustment layers. Resize image thumbnails. Adjust vibrance and saturation.

Correct the brightness and contrast of an image using editable adjustment layers. Resize image thumbnails. Adjust vibrance and saturation.