CREATIVE: GOLD HARBOUR

Automatic cameras do a great job of capturing average exposures - and generally that's exactly what you want for your raw files. However, now it's up to you to take creative control in Lightroom to better express what you saw and felt at the moment of capture - or how you now feel about it afterwards.

TECHNIQUE: BASIC PANEL

Lightroom's Basic Panel is where most of the heavy-lifting takes place when it comes to creative interpretation. Here's a quick revision of the tools available and how to use them.