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February 28, 2023
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P: Add Midtone Adjustment Slider

  • February 28, 2023
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Please consider adding a Midtone Adjustment slider to the Develop Module in Lightroom Classic and ACR.  This adjustment slider would be in addition to the other sliders.

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andrzejv90126968
Known Participant
October 11, 2025

Wiem że tak mozna zrobić ale bym wolał mieć suwak zaraz przy bielach i czerniach 

andrzejv90126968
Known Participant
September 14, 2025

Przydał by sie suwak do regulacji półcieni. W edycji krajobrazu by sie przydał taki suwak.

AxelMatt
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Community Expert
September 14, 2025

Yes, a slider for midtones is missing in Lightroom Classic. I'll hope Adobe is implementing such a slider in one of the next versions.

But, there's a workaround.  Goto to the Color Grading section and then use the Luminance slider for the midtones.

 

 

 

 

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Lance-HippyNZ
Known Participant
September 22, 2025

Midtones slider. in lightroom there is no. midtones slider. There's a highlights and a shadows, but nothing for the midtones and this consists of the majority of your Image my suggestion is put a slider in that like the others has a central dot to it but either side has two smaller dots that you can separate much like adjusting, focus or any of those things, but where the left and right dots can move independently to set the brighter parts of the midtones and the lighter parts of the midtones and then you can move the central one to adjust, the whole lot. So when you move the centre one, the left and right ones move together with it. at that given difference that you've set. this would mean you could sit the brighter parts of the midtones and the darker parts of the mid tones therefore setting the difference between them. Then you move the centre left or right, which would mean the brighter parts of the midtones would get brighter as the darker parts get brighter. Or if you move the other way the darker parts and the dead centre and the lighter parts will get a little bit darker so you can space them out. In most cases you probably wouldn't move it a lot, but you have the choice to separate the brighter parts of the midtones quite a bit from the centre. Or the darker parts of the midtones so if you are creating an image where you wanted the midtones to be quite bright you could move the darker tones closer, the darker parts of the mid tones closer to the centre of the midtones and move the darker parts of the midtones further away in the brighter direction

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
March 1, 2023

That's actually the idea behind "Clarity" (midtone contrast adjustment) and was based on Mac Holberts Photoshop action which is still around. 

https://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1223083

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
Erik Bloodaxe
Legend
February 28, 2023

You need to post your suggestions here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

This forum is really for help requests from other users.