New Video: A Hidden(ish) Feature of Lightroom that will Seriously speed up Your Editing

When you’ve been using software for a long time you often pick up tricks and techniques and they become habits and you forget how you heard about them in the first place. I was recently editing an image for a friend in Lightroom as they watched, and when I did the technique in this video, they were surprised as they had no idea you could do that. I then realised that perhaps there is quite a few people out there who don’t know that you can do this either. That technique is editing by dragging the histogram.

So in this video I show you how you can make basic edits in Lightroom by dragging directly on the histogram. It allows you to adjust the basic sliders that are in the Tone panel, except Contrast. There are real advantages to editing his way, and I highlight these in the video. Not only that but once you get used to using this technique, you won’t go back (well, I never ween’t back) and I have found that it dramatically sped up my workflow!

If you liked this video, you can check out my other Lightroom Quick Tips here on YouTube and don’t forget to watch my recent video about the past, present and future of my channel!