Stop Lightroom from adding Contrast Flicker to your Timelapses

Some popular tools in the Lightrooms Basic Panel (Shadows, Highlights, Contrast, Clarity, Dehaze etc.) act in a non-linear, context sensitive way and can introduce severe contrast flicker, color shifts and other artifacts to timelapses which are impossible to remove afterwards, even by LRTimelapses powerful Visual Deflicker.

The probability for this to happen is the higher the less smooth your original sequence is.

In this video we’ll analyze why this happens, which Lightroom tools are fine to use, which should be used with care and which should be avoided at all with such sequences.

As always: the better your source images are, the less you would suffer from such problems.

But these tips will help you to better understand how Lightroom works and edit even difficult sequences perfectly.

Make sure to have watched my Basic Tutorials first, before digging into these more advanced Expert Tips.

 

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