Lessons
Chapter 1: Introduction
1Class Introduction
02:03Chapter 2: Importing, Organizing and Filtering
2Importing
08:04 3Organizing with Collections
06:52 4Rating, Flagging, and Filtering
07:24 5Face Tagging
02:33 6Quiz: Importing, Organizing and Filtering
Chapter 3: Editing Your Photos - The Develop Module
7Crop and Rotate in Lightroom Classic CC
05:10 8White Balance in Lightroom Classic CC
07:53 9Exposure in Lightroom Classic CC
06:17 10Color and Saturation in Lightroom Classic CC
08:37 11Sharpening and Noise Reduction in Lightroom Classic CC
06:39 12Vignettes, Grain and Dehaze in Lightroom Classic CC
05:31 13Exporting in Lightroom Classic CC
09:37 14Lens Corrections in Lightroom Classic CC
04:58 15Split Tone in Lightroom Classic CC
05:12 16Removing Blemishes with the Heal and Clone Tools in Lightroom Classic CC
07:39 17Graduated, Radial and Brush Adjustments in Lightroom Classic CC
09:53 18Adjustment Brush Presets in Lightroom Classic CC
03:02 19Range Masks in Lightroom Classic CC
05:26 20Quiz: Editing Your Photos - The Develop Module
Chapter 4: Editing Your Photos - Advanced Tips & Techniques
21Using, Creating, and Importing Presets
05:24 22Color Profiles
04:14 23Speed Up Your Editing Workflow
04:04 24Panorama
03:33 25HDR
02:43 26Automatically Fix Exposure & White Balance
01:40 27CC 2020 Updates
04:25 28Quiz: Editing Your Photos - Advanced Tips & Techniques
Chapter 5: Advanced Portrait Editing Techniques
29Enhance Eyes and Change Eye Color
08:20 30Whitening Teeth
02:47 31Smoothing Skin
02:16 32Removing Wrinkles
04:31 33Enhancing Lips & Changing Lipstick Color
03:05 34Enhancing Cheeks & Face Contouring
07:42 35Full Portrait Edit
06:58 36Quiz: Advanced Portrait Editing Techniques
Chapter 6: Full Photo Editing Sessions
37Portrait of a Woman
19:37 38Night Edit
14:36 39Long Exposure
14:04 40Product Photo
11:56 41Nature
09:01 42Action
08:06 43Landscape
12:11 44Travel
12:33 45Couples Portrait
17:37 46Architecture Photo
18:12 47Aerial Photo
09:04 48Street Photo
14:04 49Macro Photo
09:54 50Pet Photo
09:45 51Maternity Couple Photo
12:27 52Interior Nursery
13:07 53Portrait of a Man
18:35 54Sports Photo
09:32 55Quiz: Full Photo Editing Sessions
Chapter 7:Map, Book, Slideshow, Print & Web Modules
56The Map Module
04:19 57The Book Module
09:45 58The Slideshow Module
10:21 59The Print Module
08:14 60The Web Module
05:56 61Quiz: Map, Book, Slideshow, Print & Web Modules
Chapter 8: Conclusion
62Conclusion and Thank You
01:39Final Quiz
63Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Action
Welcome to this new Lightroom editing session. This is the action photo. So if you want to follow along, make sure you've downloaded that photo import it and here's this photo that I shot down at a just stage race that happens in the local downtown here in san dimas and it was one of my favorite shots from the day using this technique to capture moving objects but with a very blurry background and a sharp subject. So anyways, let's dive into it. We're gonna be doing some cool techniques to make sure that our subject stands out as much as possible. Awesome. So starting with this photo, the first thing we're going to do is crop it and I'm just going to leave the original aspect ratio, we're gonna bring it in quite a bit, try to align our subject on that intersection of the rule of thirds whenever you have an action shot, it feels much more balanced to have the negative space in front of the motion rather than behind. And this goes for shooting photos as well. So when you're shooting them...
, uh, not just cropping them in post, you want to make sure that the action or whoever is moving or whatever is moving, it's going towards the negative space side of your photo so hopefully that makes sense. So I'm going to crop in right about there. I wish I had tilted down just a little bit so there was a little bit more room beneath the bike tires in this shot so I could get some room down there. But since I don't, I'm trying to crop in as much as possible with, without feeling too crunched. If I crop something like this, I, to me, I feel like this feels a little bit too crunched in there and not enough headspace. Headroom. So I'm going to leave it something like that with overall exposure. It's actually exposed pretty well I think, but I am going to increase the contrast just with the blacks bringing those down. I'm going to bring up the shadows, just a little bit highlight. Some guy trying to bring up white's just bring down just a little bit clarity. I'm gonna boost just a little bit. This is one situation where boosting clarity for a person looks pretty good. At least I think with vibrance and saturation, I'm not playing around with overall, I'm going to go down to our H. S. L. Panel, use the saturation selector and click on this green right here and really just boost this green, It has a little bit of aqua in there as well. I'm going to go down to this red boost that as well. This blue boost that really just trying to make those colors pop on our cyclists and since he's wearing the green jersey, which is the leader in the sprints category, if you're a cyclist, you'll get that. Uh, if not basically, this guy is really fast and so that's why he's wearing that green jersey and so I really want to make sure that looks good, here's another example of where using a hue adjustment could be cool. We could make this guy not the green jersey wear, but the yellow jersey wear and that means he's actually the best writer in the race and he is going for gold and there's not really a aqua jersey, that just means he's riding for a normal team and he's not winning any prizes. We're going to leave it as was with the green jersey, which looks pretty good. Next I'm going to use a brush adjustment, just subtle brush adjustment for his face. His face is the part that is really most in focus, but because there's so much motion, I don't even know what the settings were for this photo. Let's go back to the library. I haven't done this for most of these photos but We were shooting at 1/100 of a second, so still not too slow, but because they were moving so fast, you get that nice motion blur. F 10 which is still pretty deep um as well. So um it looks actually pretty good for for those settings. Um and there's it's amazing that there's still some motion blur right there on his face with that fast shutter speed, but again, they're moving so fast. Alright, so with this brush we are just going to move and paint over his face. So let's click our brush, make sure our mask overlay is on, that's o on your keyboard if you don't know that by now, that means you haven't been paying attention to the videos, shame on you. And so we're just gonna paint over this now. I noticed I clicked on his cheek and that's what's selected. And so when I started painting over his glasses, lightroom was like, wait a second. That's not what you want me to select. So it didn't select it. So I'm going to click again on the glasses now and because the glasses are multiple colors, I might have to do this a couple of times. The good thing is that it does a pretty decent job at selecting the edges and not selecting like the sky in the background or even his arm right there, which I don't necessarily want. That's pretty good. So let's turn off our mask overlay o on the keyboard. We're going to increase the sharpness here quite a bit, notice if I increase it crazy amount, you get a lot of noise and grain right there, digital grain right there. So we're not gonna go that crazy. We're also going to boost the clarity just a little bit Now I'm zoomed in. If I zoom out and I turn this on and off, you can see it's super subtle, I can make it a little bit more intense. The blacks down, shadows, down highlights. Maybe actually the shadows should come up just a little bit and I definitely don't want to add warmth or coolness to his face. So turning that on and off, you can see what's happening. It just makes his face a little bit more detailed and that's what we're going for, Making sure he is the center of attention. Now this photo is pretty close. The last thing I'm going to do is show you how to create sort of a custom white or highlight vignette using the radial filter. So if I take this radial filter, click in the middle of the cyclist and just initially have a circle. You can move it around in a second and then press O to see the edge or what's being selected to make sure you're not selecting everything. And this is a case where I'm going to turn the feathering down just a little bit because I can tell that it's actually selecting parts of the cyclist right there. We can also brush in or out, but I'm gonna leave it like that. Actually I will go take our brush now with this radial filter, press a race, make it a little big, turn off auto mask and just erase the part where the cyclist is down here. Cool. Alright, so let's turn off the selected mask overlay. I'm going to do two things. One, I'm going to drop clarity just a little bit, which increases the blur in the background. I'm also going to decrease the sharpness, which also increases the blur again, focusing our attention on the cyclist. Turning this on and off, you can see, just does a little bit. And the last thing I'm going to do is actually increase the overall exposure. Now you can go as much as you want if you want to go a little bit more extreme and abstract, something like that could be pretty cool. I'm just going to go a little bit, but now if we see the before and after, you can really tell that your attention isn't drawn to these darker areas up here, we can even boost the shadows, but then that starts to look a little bit. So I'm not going to do that actually. So leaving the shadows as is, but the overall exposure boost I actually like in this style. So this is the after, so let's reset it. So here's the before and the after way better. In my opinion, attention is on the cyclist colors pop really well and we've got this nice highlight sort of vignette that looks pretty good, awesome. If you have any questions, let me know. Otherwise we'll see you in another tutorial by
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