“Warm it up a little.”
Say what the photo needs, in your own words. Chatty Chad moves Lightroom's sliders while you watch, and every change lands in History, where you can undo it.
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History
- Chatty Chad: foreground shadows
- Chatty Chad: crop angle −2.4°
- Chatty Chad: warmer
- Import (10/10/2026)
It's too blue. Warm it up a little.
The shade read cool. Warmer, and the sky kept clear of yellow.
- Temperature 5200 → 5750
- Tint +3 → +8
The horizon is crooked.
- Crop angle 0° → −2.4°, leveled on the lake
Open up the shadows in the hills.
A gradient on the foreground only, so the sky stays put.
- Mask “Foreground” (linear gradient): Shadows +40, Exposure +0.20
Edit faster, and learn as you go
It does the slider work, shows you what it did, and gives you a second opinion when you want one.
It saves you time
- One sentence moves every slider, across as many panels as it takes.
- Follow-ups stay short: “a bit less on the sky” adjusts the mask it already made.
- It knows the photo: the color at spots you mark, the camera and lens, the exposure and, with GPS, where the sun was.
It teaches as it goes
- The window lists every slider it moved, from what to what, and it tells you why.
- Ask “What would you change?” and it answers in words. It edits only when you ask, and a crop it suggests is drawn on the photo first.
- Each change is its own named step in History, so you can step back through the edit and see how the look was built.
How it works
A small window that sits beside Lightroom and works on the photo in front of you.
Open it on a photo
Select a photo in Lightroom Classic and press Control-B. The window opens beside it.
Or choose File › Plug-in Extras › Open Chatty Chad.
Say what you want
“Check white balance and exposure.” “Make it feel like evening.” “Is the horizon straight?” To show it a spot, mark it on the photo.
Keep it, or undo it
Each change is a named step in Lightroom's History, and the photo updates as you watch. Undo one step, or go back to where you started.
What it can do
It works in the Develop panels you already know, by their own names, and keeps every value inside Lightroom's limits.
Basic
White balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, texture, clarity, dehaze, vibrance, saturation.
“The sky is blown out.”
Highlights and Whites come down, and Shadows open a little so the land keeps up.
Tone Curve
The parametric curve and its three splits.
“More punch in the midtones.”
Darks down and Lights up on the parametric curve, leaving the ends alone.
HSL / Color and Color Grading
Hue, saturation and luminance per color; shadows, midtones and highlights graded.
“The grass looks neon.”
Green and Yellow saturation down, and Green a touch darker.
B&W
Black and white and back, with the eight-color mix.
“Try it in black and white, with a dark sky.”
Black & White on, Blue and Aqua pulled down in the mix.
Detail and Effects
Sharpening, noise reduction and the post-crop vignette.
“It's noisy in the shadows.”
Luminance noise reduction up, and sharpening kept to the edges with Masking.
Masks
Subject, Sky, Background, people and landscape parts, linear and radial gradients, luminance ranges, each with its own sliders.
“Brighten her face a little.”
A mask on the person's face, with Exposure up a touch on it alone.
Crop
Aspect, angle and straightening; a look at the whole frame with the crop outlined; back to the full image.
“Is the horizon straight?”
It measures the horizon and draws the crop it suggests on the photo; say yes and it levels it.
Profile
Adobe's profiles and the ones you installed, on raw files.
“Try a more neutral profile.”
It finds Adobe Neutral among your profiles and applies it.
Lens Corrections and Transform
Profile corrections, chromatic aberration, Upright (Auto, Full, Level, Vertical) and the Transform sliders.
“The buildings are leaning back.”
Lens profile corrections on, then Upright set to Vertical.
Calibration
The shadows tint and the red, green and blue primaries.
“Skin tones look a bit magenta.”
The red primary's hue nudged toward orange.
Color readings
Lab and RGB values at spots on the photo, as hovering in Develop shows them, including points you mark.
“Is this wall really neutral?”
It reads the color at the spot you mark and tells you which way it leans.
How it was taken
Camera, lens, exposure and capture time, and with GPS, where the sun was.
“Was this shot at golden hour?”
It checks the capture time and, with GPS, how high the sun was at that moment.
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- Your original files are never touched: Lightroom edits are settings, not pixels.
- Every change is a step in History, so any of them can be undone.
- Cancel any time, from your account page.