P: Brilliance slider?

[Jeena22389650a1ho]

The only tool in iPhones built in camera roll editing software in my opinion is the brilliance slider. This is a very helpful tool, and when used with caution, can yield great results. I wonder if Adobe has ever considered adding their own version of a brilliance slider?

[Walt Thirion Photography]

From the Apple website:

• Brilliance: Adjusts a photo to make it look richer and more vibrant, brightening dark areas, pulling in highlights, and adding contrast to reveal hidden detail. The adjustment is color neutral (no saturation is applied), but there may be a perceived change in color because brighter images with more contrast appear more vibrant.

Sounds like the equivalent of bumping up 'Shadows' and 'Contrast' while reducing 'Highlights'. LrC gives a much finer level control over these settings and you could make a presets that would match the amount of 'Brilliance' you want to add.

[DdeGannes]

See the screen capture and the link below. Clarity and Vibrance. To the bottom of the Basic controls...

[TheDigitalDog]

Clarity is likely the closest but of course, all such controls are propriatary.

[Jeena22389650a1ho]

I can certainly understand why you would think that lightroom, with its finer controls, would actually deliver a superior image. However, I can assure you, that is absolutely not always the case. I have been using lightroom for over 10 years and am fairly well versed in the editing tools. I tried to emulate the results I got with apples brilliance slider on a sample image, and I was not able to, and gave up after 5 or 10 minutes. If you'd like, I'd be happy to upload an untouched iphone DNG image, a JPG of the brilliance slider effect, and you can have a go at it yourself. If you are able to get the same or better results, than I will certainly have something to learn from you.

[sjc8sjc8]

I agree. I found this thread by trying to find something I could do in Lightroom that would produce the effect. I am a professional photographer and have used Lightroom a long time but there's nothing in there like the brilliance dial on iPhone that I can find 

[Conrad_C]

It wouldn’t hurt to send in a feature request through the Ideas section of this forum. Adobe has been known to fill in legitimate gaps before. There used to be a gap in detail enhancement between Sharpening and Clarity that would sometimes cause me to reach for other software, but after Adobe recently added the Texture option, I can now stay in Lightroom Classic more of the time. A little before that, Adobe also decided a new Dehaze option was worth adding. So it might be worth a shot to let them know how adding something like Brilliance would fill a gap that you see in the application.

[Steve27529356daik]

There is nothing in Lightroom that does what the Brilliance slider in iOS accomplishes...
It is a combo of Brightness, Clarity, Shadows but in a Special Sauce kind of way...
Would be an awesome tool to have....

[GoldingD]

I suspect this is a Lr preset, not a LrC preset, but???

https://presetlove.com/presets/brilliance/

[JohanElzenga]

Lr presets and Lightroom Classic presets are the same. They are only stored in different places and do not sync, but technically there is no difference so you can simply install a LR preset in Lightroom Classic.

[Abhishek Ravi]

Plz Add Smart Feature- Brilliance AI Like On1 Photo Raw For Automatic Brightness Adjustment Photo

[StefanBBB]

I asked Chat GPT to suggest settings in Lightroom. I'm quite happy with it.

To reproduce the "brilliance" effect from the iOS Photos app in Adobe Lightroom, you can use the following sliders:

• Contrast: Increase the contrast slightly to enhance the details and emphasize the difference between light and dark areas.
• Highlights: Reduce the highlights to soften highlights and prevent bright areas from appearing overexposed.
• Shadows: Brighten the depths to reveal more detail in the dark areas.
• White: Adjust the White value to control the brightness of the brightest areas in the image. Increasing it slightly can help to make bright areas of the image appear more vivid.
• Black: Reduce the black value to increase the depth and contrast in the darkest areas.
• Clarity: Increase the clarity to increase the local contrast in medium tonal values and thus emphasize the detail and structure in the image.
• Saturation: Since the Brilliance slider is color-neutral, you should only adjust the saturation minimally or not at all. If necessary, only increase it slightly to make the colors appear richer without exaggerating them.
• Dynamics: This is the slider that comes closest to the brilliance slider. It boosts the less saturated colors more than the already saturated ones. Increase the dynamic range to achieve a more vivid color effect without oversaturating the colors.

Example settings:
Contrast: +10 to +20
Highlights: -10 to -20
Shadows: +10 to +20
White: +5 to +15
Black: -5 to -15
Clarity: +10 to +20
Dynamics: +10 to +20

These values are of course only guidelines and should be adjusted individually depending on the image. Experiment with these sliders to achieve the desired effect.

(This text was translated into English using Deepl and might contain errors.)

[JohanElzenga]

There is no 'Dynamics' slider in Lightroom. That is probably a poor translation of 'Vibrance'.

[jillian_1133]

Was searching for long time for this.  Any updates on this?

[jillian_1133]

Been searching for awhile...

I have an iPhone and the brilliance slider is great.  I can't find anything in Lightroom that is similar or as easy. 
Can anyone help?

Or is it because my iPhone takes photos in HDR?

[Srishti Bali]

Hi @jillian_1133

In Lightroom, there isn’t a dedicated Brilliance slider. This feature has been requested by several users, and I’m merging your post with the existing thread so you can upvote it. The more upvotes it gets, the higher the chances of it being considered for implementation.

Regards,

Srishti

[Charlie.D]

@jillian_1133 

You can enable HDR as a toggle at the botton of Lightroom's Light adjustments panel.  I know this is not the "brilliance" slider, but you may find that enabling HDR for iPhone photos and then using the Light panel (or other edit adjustments) may get you the result you want.

[jillian_1133]

Thanks.  I'm trying to use this with photos from my Nikon camera.  For some reason my computer won't do HDR.  I guess you're saying to upload my photos to the cloud then and use my phone?

[Charlie.D]

@jillian_1133 

Ah, sorry--I didn't realize you're asking about the desktop app, and that your setup might not support HDR display.

[Conrad_C]

@jillian_1133 Although I don’t know exactly how the Brilliance slider works, I don’t think it has anything to do with HDR. I think it’s a certain processing option that Apple offers in the Photos app that isn’t in all other software, similar to how Lightroom has a Texture option that isn’t in Photos or other softarre.

The way I came to that conclusion is by opening the Apple Photos app on my Mac, because I know that Photos offers the same controls across macOS and iOS, similar to how cloud Lightroom offers the same controls across macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, and web. 

I did find that the Brilliance option also appears in Photos on macOS, and on top of that, I am looking at it on a computer display that doesn’t support HDR. So now I know Brilliance has nothing to do with HDR, because if it did, it would be disabled on this computer.

So you don’t need to go down the road of figuring out how HDR figures into all of this because I believe Brilliance is not related to HDR. 

I wonder if Brilliance has to do with Apple combining some image analysis with advanced processing that can optimize different parts of the image so that the adjustment is more intelligent. If that’s what Apple is doing (and I have no idea if it is), then something similar in Lightroom might be the Adaptive Color profile that you can adjust with a slider. If you haven’t used the Adaptive Color profile, read about it here:

The Adobe Adaptive Profile

[jillian_1133]

Thanks for this.  This makes sense. I think the phone does take in HDR mode though. I read it combines multiple images like you said.

I'll check out that info you shared!