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Stop Editing Sliders First: How Thomas Heaton's Local-First Workflow Changed How I Think About Lightroom
I used to open Lightroom and reach for the exposure slider before I even really looked at the photo. Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, done. It was efficient, it was comfortable, and it produced results that were… fine. Fine is the enemy of interesting. The problem with global adjustments is that they treat your entire image like a single, uniform thing when most compelling photos are the opposite of that. They have a subject, a background, a sky, a foreground, and each of those zones deserves its own treatment.