P: Add Midtone Adjustment Slider

[russt94782521]

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.

[Erik Bloodaxe]

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.

[TheDigitalDog]

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

[andrzejv90126968]

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

[AxelMatt]

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.

[Califdan2]

The "Exposure" slider basically mid tone control.   Put your curosor on the Exposure slider and notice that the mid section of the histogram get's a slight highlight indicating the area that the slider targets.  Or, put your cursor on the middle of the histogram and notice that the exposure slider is automatically selected.    Move tha slider aournd and watch the histogram.  It is mainly moving the middle of the histogram using the left and right edges of the histogram as a cusion or feather area 

[AxelMatt]

The "Exposure" slider basically mid tone control.   Put your curosor on the Exposure slider and notice that the mid section of the histogram get's a slight highlight indicating the area that the slider targets. ...

By @Califdan2 

In principle, you're right when you say that the midtones in the histogram get's slightly highlightened.

But when the slider is moved, the entire histogram shifts to the right or left. It doesn't just affect the midtones. This makes the entire image brighter or darker.

Using the Luminance slider for the midtones in the Color Grading area really only affects the midtones. Highlights and shadows remain as they are.

Here you can find a very interesting video on the topic: Lightroom lügt bezüglich der Belichtung (hier ist die Lösung)

[Lance-HippyNZ]

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