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Sliders in the Develop module

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August 26, 2017
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In Lightroom CC's Develop module, is there a way to adjust Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, etc., other than with the sliders? The very tiniest movements of the sliders seem to make very large differences in the photo. (Or is it just me?)

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Correct answer Per Berntsen

There are several ways to accomplish this.

Pressing the Shift key while dragging will slow the slider down, and make it easier to fine tune adjustments.
Use the keyboard - with the mouse cursor over a slider, use the Up and Down arrow keys.
Pressing Shift while doing this will increase the increments the slider moves by.
Pressing Alt (Option on a Mac) will make the increments smaller.
You can also click in the number field next to the slider.
Then use the arrow keys to change the value in the smallest possible increments.
Adding the Shift key will increase the increments.

ManiacJoe

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Lots of good answers so far.

Another option: drag the right panel wider so that the sliders take up more space. This will make the mouse movements do relatively smaller adjustments.

J

Joe Foe Toe

Legend

I enjoy using a midi controller for adjustment sliders: https://petapixel.com/2015/08/12/midi2lr-an-open-source-app-that-lets-you-use-any-midi-controller-in-lightroom/ Downside: takes a bit of tech know-how to set up. Upside: I used an old Korg Nano Kontrol and they sell for maybe $25 used. It works great, I have four banks of 16 controls.

dj_paige

Legend

And you can click in the number field and type in a value, so if you want to change exposure by 0.5, you type in 0.5 in the Exposure Field.

You can click on the slider name (for example, Exposure) and then press the + or - (minus) keys to change the slider position.

To Per Berntsen:

I can't get this to work: "with the mouse cursor over a slider, use the Up and Down arrow keys."

richard_g_l58640253Author

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Thanks for the help. I tried to mark your answer as “Correct,” but the instructions to do so were faulty for some reason (i.e., there was no “Correct” option for me to click at the site I was directed to).

Per Berntsen

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There are several ways to accomplish this.

Pressing the Shift key while dragging will slow the slider down, and make it easier to fine tune adjustments.
Use the keyboard - with the mouse cursor over a slider, use the Up and Down arrow keys.
Pressing Shift while doing this will increase the increments the slider moves by.
Pressing Alt (Option on a Mac) will make the increments smaller.
You can also click in the number field next to the slider.
Then use the arrow keys to change the value in the smallest possible increments.
Adding the Shift key will increase the increments.

richard_g_l58640253Author

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Thanks for the help. I tried to mark your answer as “Correct,” but the instructions to do so were faulty for some reason (i.e., there was no “Correct” option for me to click at the site I was directed to).

Per Berntsen

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https://forums.adobe.com/people/richard+g.l58640253 wrote
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