Chapter 4. Quick Develop Making Minor Adjustments

I know we'd like to think that every shot we take is worthy of the same level of careful color correction and individual selective sharpening, but the sad reality is some of our photos just don't require it. Not every photo we take is destined to hang in some famous gallery. Some photos, like those taken for insurance claim purposes after a fender bender in your car, will only wind up being shown in some of the smaller galleries, fetching only a few hundred dollarsperhaps a thousand on rare occasion but they have little chance of competing with your more serious pieces. It's those instances where you have to decide, "Do I really need to go into the Develop module and process the living daylights out of this puppy or can I just click a few buttons here in the Library module's Quick Develop panel and be done with it?" It's an age-old question, but you can make the decision easier if you take the time to ask yourself a few questions beforehand. First, ask yourself this, "When this shot of my dented fender is displayed, will it be exposed to high ultraviolet light content, and will that affect its overall sale price?" If the answer is "No," then you can safely correct this photo using the Library module's Quick Develop panel. However, if the answer is "Yes," then in order to maintain consistent color rendition you need to give careful consideration to the spill and angle of the fill lights in the gallery and whether using an undimmed, low-voltage 20W dichroic lamp will minimize any potential fluctuation in the color temperature. By the way, I have no idea what any of that means.