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Chapter 5: Developing photos
The Develop module in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ includes controls for adjusting the color and tonal scale of
your photos. All the adjustments you make in Lightroom are nondestructive, which means your original file is not
altered, whether it's a camera raw file or a rendered file (like a JPEG or TIFF). Your edits are stored in Lightroom as
a set of instructions that are applied to your photo in memory. Nondestructive editing means you can explore and
create different versions of your photo without degrading your original image data.
For a video tutorial about correcting photos in the Develop module, see
www.adobe.com/go/learn_lr_video_develop.
Develop module overview
Panels and tools
The Develop module contains two sets of panels for viewing and developing a photo. On the left are the Navigator,
Presets, Snapshots, and History panels for saving, previewing, and selecting changes you've made to a photo. On the
right are the primary panels for adjusting and fine-tuning the photo:
• The Histogram panel in the Develop module is more than just a visual guide for measuring color tones. You can
work in the histogram interface to make tonal adjustments to the photo.
• 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/Grayscale 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 the sharpness and reduce noise in the photo.
• The Lens Corrections panel corrects chromatic aberrations or lens vignetting caused by the camera lens.
• The Camera Calibration panel makes adjustments to the default calibration settings for your camera.
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