Lessons
Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
19:42 2Hard Drives
08:06 3File Organization
08:31 430,000 Foot View of Workflow
05:36 5Importing into Lightroom
04:10 6Building Previews
07:14 7Collections and Publish Services
05:11 8Keywords
06:27Hardware for Lightroom
06:08 10Searching for Images
07:51 11Selecting Images
14:15 12Organizing Images
04:02 13Collecting Images for Use
14:56 14Develop Module Overview
10:15 15Profiles
11:34 16Basic Adjustments
11:45 17Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
05:31 18Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
02:40 19Tone Curve
09:26 20HSL
04:48 21Split Tone
08:19 22Lens Corrections
08:32 23Details
09:34 24Transform Tool
05:52 25Effects Panel
10:00 26Synchronizing for Faster Editing
07:40 27Spot Tool
17:51 28Skin Softening and Brush Work
07:00 29Range Masking
13:28 30Dodge and Burn
17:36 31Working with Specific Colors
08:30 32Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
11:22 33Making Presets
13:24 34Preparing Image in Lightroom
09:51 35Content Aware Fill
11:14 36Skin Repair
02:44 37Skin Smoothing
14:39 38Expanding a Canvas
04:30 39Liquify
10:22 40Layers and Composite Images
12:54 41Sharing via Web
17:52 42Exporting Files
10:47 43Sharing with Slideshows
08:00 44Archiving Photos and Catalogs
19:54 45Designing
13:35 46Making Prints
11:27 47Color Management and Profiles
13:00 48Archiving Photos and Catalogs
11:31 49Using Cloud Storage
04:09 50Adding Images to your Portfolio
09:23 51Collecting for Your Portfolio
18:03 52Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
19:48 53Sharing to Instagram
07:06 54HDR
15:32 55Panorama
06:41 56HDR Panorama
09:54 57Making Presets
15:39 58Creating Profiles
18:09 59Maps
07:08 60Setup for Tethered Shooting
23:21 61Sharing with the Client
05:42 62Watched Folder Process
07:04 63Second Monitor and iPad
06:09 64Backup at the Camera
03:50 65Gnar Box Disk Backup
06:45 66iPhone and iPad Review
12:52 67Importing to Lightroom on iPad
02:59 68Cloud Backup
04:39 69Adjust, Edit, and Organize
07:46 70Using Lightroom Between Devices
11:27 71Lightroom Desktop
05:27 72Removing Images from the Cloud
10:49 73Profiles
09:34 74Light
04:34 75Color
05:36 76Effects
15:22 77Details
08:33 78Optics
03:49 79Geometry
04:12 80Crop
04:39 81Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
13:41 82Local Adjustments
15:40 83Healing Tool
03:29 84Synchronizing Edits
04:57 85Editing in Photoshop
08:54 86Finding Images
07:09 87Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
09:18 88Posting Images to Social Media
14:01 89Overview of Lightroom Desktop
07:35 90The Workflow Overview
10:08 91Organizing Images
05:10 92Albums and Shared Albums
18:21 93Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
04:36 94Importing and Selecting Images
09:23 95HDR and Panoramics
22:44 96Light
07:47 97Profiles
07:23 98Tone Curves
02:57 99Color
08:35 100Effects
17:01 101Details
12:43 102Optics
04:05 103Geometry and Crop Tool
06:01 104Sync Settings
02:40 105Making and Adding Presets
03:48 106Healing Brush
02:21 107Brush Tool
03:14 108Gradient Tool
04:16 109Edit in Photoshop
02:53 110Finding Images with Sensei
06:32 111Sharing Albums on the Web
04:57 112Print through Photoshop
02:09 113Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
04:36 114Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
05:24 115Archiving Images for Storage
09:55 116Review of the Workflow
07:20Lesson Info
Tone Curve
So now that we've gone through that, let's talk about the tone curve. The tone covers a really fantastic place, and and there's two different types of tone curves. So there's first off. There's this. What? It's just the no normal, linear linear tone curve, which is just a bunch of sliders, and I can change the shadows, the darks, the lights and the highlights. And this is a great place to add or remove contrast in a preset. So if you're making a preset on, do you want to add contrast to an image like kind of have a snappy style or something like that? Don't make the pre set up here in the basics because the basics are meant to fix each individual photo like they're meant to normalize a photo and get it exposed correctly and get the right amount of contrast and for normal. And then, if you want to add style to something, you want to add that style based on an additive process, so that you can just apply it to any image and it will look equally as good on any image. And that's why it wou...
ld be better to apply a snappy like contrast, E style inside of the tone curve. So you should get used to the tone curve you get get to know the tone curve because it could be a really good friend. Um, so I'm gonna go in here and I'm going to play around at the Blacks, and that's really making her her purse look nice. And, um, I'm going to I'm going to take the dark and go up and down with it until I like the way that purse and her hat look, that's what I'm looking at. And then I'm gonna take the lights, and that's gonna see how I can make that really, you know, pop out nicely like that looks real snappy and then high the highlights. I'll bring them back down a little bit so that I don't have super bright. And now that looks really nice. And it's a snappy style, and you can see if I turn this off. It looks much more normal, and if I turn it on, it's a lot snappier, but but either way is fine, because the original underlying image and the adjustments that I made in the basic panel are all still there. and they're still good. And then the tone curve is just adding to that, adding a little curve over the top of it. Now, if I right click this, I can reset it and just just reset all of it. So I'm back to normal, and then I'm gonna go instead. And you can actually use both of these in tandem. So you could you could apply a little bit of a curve here, and then you could also go into and this is right here under these sliders. There's a little box on the right hand corner, bottom corner, and that is the tone curve. But you use it like you would in photo shop. So now you can actually manipulate the tone curve with just points so I can take the points down. I can take the points up, and this is why they call it a point curve. So I can mess with this to my heart's content. But I'm gonna right click it and flatten it. Um, Mawr, Importantly is, I can come in here to the channel and change it just like a wooden photo shop. I can change it to rgb two red green or blue, and this is where you can start to play with the actual image colors. So if I want to play around and make kind of a cross process, he look, I can do that right here because I can change what the read looks like in the highlights and shadows. So if I wanted to do kind of a green looking across process, I'm just gonna take red down so that I'm getting some greens to pull back in there. But in the shadows, Maybe I wanted to kind of come back up to be a little bit red. So already I'm getting kind of an interesting look there, and then I can go down and click on Green, and I could increase the green a little bit in the highlights, and I could decrease the green in the shadows a little bit. Then I can go over to the blue and on the blue Aiken, bring the blue down in the like take it up in the shadows, but bring it down in the highlights and so you can see that I've got this really interesting, a little bit ugly there, and I don't like the way it looks on her face, but that's OK because now I can go back to the red and say, Well, or maybe back in the green, you can take the high that out of her face. So now the highlights don't have as much green in them. That looks much better. And it's still a really interesting look. And so now I've got this curve that is a little bit of the linear curve here. So shadows highlights darks, lights, and then I've got the point curve underlying it, which has red, green and blue separated out with different curves. And it creates an interesting look. Once I've done that, I can take that tone curve and come over to the left hand side. And this is really important. If you wasted that much time on a curve, you better save that curve if you like it. So I'm gonna click on that plus symbol and say, create a preset, and then I'm gonna go into that preset. I'm gonna name it so we'll just call it Ah ah, green blue curve. And what I'll do is I'll put a code at the beginning of it so that because you want your presets to fall in order so that you know where they are. So you're not hunting around alphabetically for him. Um and so what I'll do is I'll label it so I'll just say, uh so it's going to go in the curves collection, but right at the moment, I'll just put it in the user presets and then I'll drag it there later. So I'm just gonna call this for now. I'll just call this, uh, curve. Let's see. Let's just say, 0 12 curve, um, green blue. That's how we'll make label it. And then I'll put it in the user presets. And then I have to decide what is going into this preset. And so I'm gonna go down to the bottom of it and say, Check none, because I don't want everything involved. The only thing I want to be involved in this preset is one thing, and that is the tone curve itself. That's it, because that's the only thing I want to apply to images. If I add the basic tones and white balance and stuff like that, I'll ruin any photo that I added to, except for this one. So we only want to do the tone curve and then I'm going to hit, create. And now, down here in the user presets right here you will see that I've got something called oat to curve green blue. And then I can come up here into my curves collections and see how it's labeled. So it's like 0123456789 etcetera. So now I could just say OK, well, I want this to fall in my tone curves, and I want it to be right here at basically 30 right between 30 and 31. So now what I'll do is just go back into my that curve that I just made and I will rename it. So I'm gonna just say, rename this. I'm going to call this a lips 31 a and then hit. Okay, so now I've got something called 31 a and then I'll have to do is grab it and drag it into that folder. And boom, it is now in position right up here next to 31 31 a green blue curve. So now I just have a bunch of curves and so I can see Heiken scroll through my curves until I find that when I like and actually like this, which one? That one, which is called Thin film Fiber. Cool blue. So when I click on that, I've got another curve. But see, I have the that curve and I could go up and choose this other green blue curve and I. It's easy to find a curve, but remember, I'm constantly saving those curves so that I'm not having to do it again, because you should never spend a lot of time on each image making a specific curve for that image, especially if you're trying to do. If you're doing one landscape a day or something like that, no big deal. But if you're shooting portrait's or weddings or events or something like that, you really got to get through those images. And so hunting around for a curve is not a good idea. Are working on a curve
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Ratings and Reviews
Ira Richterman
I am truly a recreational novice in the photography world and this video is fantastic. Photography has become a very technical world both on the camera side as well as post production. Jared has great teaching skills and sure makes it look very simple. I would recommend this video for those starting out in Lightroom as this program can be overwhelming and has a daunting amount of information. I would like to know if there is a resource of location of contact to ask a question or two for clarifications as a viewer goes through the course. For example, when making a new collection and if you choose the option of making this new collection a target collection, what happens if you then make another new collection and select that new collection to be a target collection? If you click on B to add a photo to a target collection and you made two target collections then where does this virtual selection go, ie into which target collection? Thanks Ira irichterma@aol.com
Dan Clarke
This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.
catherine Haggerty
Loved this class. As a beginner it really gives me working knowledge to use LR confidently. This class is older, so a few times I really had to stop and figure out how it worked in the newest version of LR... but all in all this class was amazing!