Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
Lesson 26 from: Travel Photography: The Complete GuideBen Willmore
Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
Lesson 26 from: Travel Photography: The Complete GuideBen Willmore
Lesson Info
26. Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
Lessons
DAY 1
1Course Introduction
01:59 2Camera Gear for Travel
28:20 3What Camera Gear Should You Buy?
13:58 4Gear Bags for Travel Photography
20:19 5Location Research and Pre-Trip Planning
21:01 6Importing and Naming Conventions in Lightroom
19:33 7Processing Images with Presets in Lightroom
27:06Basic Develop Module Processing
20:59 9Travel Architecture Photography
07:29 10Tourists in Your Shots
21:28 11Travel Panoramas
08:07 12Travel Street Photography
22:45 13What to Photograph While Traveling
21:16 14Night Photography Tips
03:26 15Adjusting for Clean Backgrounds
26:00 16How to Correct Composition in Camera
18:46 17Framing and Composition Tips
21:23 18Folder System in Lightroom
33:04 19How to Find Any Image in Lightroom
06:16 20Keywording Tactics in Lightroom
18:04 21Sort Keywords in Lightroom
28:30 22Update Default Settings in Lightroom
15:55 23How to Process HDR Images in Lightroom
21:34 24Adjusting Panoramas in Lightroom
07:50 25Adjustment Brush in Lightroom
20:05 26Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
04:31 27Switching from Lightroom to Photoshop
12:42 28Using Masks to Make Adjustments in Photoshop
23:20 29Composite Images in Photoshop
31:09 30Focus Stacking in Photoshop
02:23 31Filling in Panoramas with Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop
05:05 32Removing Glowing Highlights in Photoshop
06:12 33Lens Specifications and Performance
39:06 34Clone Stamp, Healing Brush and Spot Healing in Photoshop
10:55 35Removing Tourists in Shots using Photoshop
07:49 36Tricks to Manual Cloning in Photoshop
08:51 37Content Aware Feature vs Healing Tools
16:30DAY 2
Lesson Info
Post Crop Vignetting in Lightroom
Vignetting, I'm gonna show you some tricks with. Vignetting is the process of darkening the edges of your picture. There's two different places where you'll find it. The first is under Lens Corrections. Under Lens Corrections you're gonna find a choice down here called Lens Vignetting. And if you were to move the amount slider, you would either brighten or darken the corners of your image. This is not where I darken my image. This is designed to compensate for a lens. If a lens delivered not enough light to the corners of an image, which is not uncommon, you could bring this up to compensate until the corners look just as bright as the center. The problem with that is, if I choose to grab the crop tool, and I crop in on my image so that it's not using the original framing, instead it's using my new framing. I might wanna do that after doing basic lens corrections because I can see some curvature in this image. So I'm gonna turn on that, and I might wanna do some rotation. Let's grab ou...
r little, right here and rotate. Alright. But now, if I do vignetting underneath Lens Corrections then look at where it's going to happen. It's gonna happen based on the original framing of the image. And so it will darken up here in this corner, that corner even though its outside of my framing. Does that make sense? So instead, what we need to do is, on the right side, get away from Lens Corrections and go to Effects. And under Effects there is a choice there, and it's called Post-Crop Vignetting. Whereas pre-crop vignetting means use the original framing of the shot. And so that makes sense, I hope, why we're here. And here are the tricks I wanna show you. When you do this you can darken the edges. And I often do darken the edges because then your attention is drawn to the colorful and bright middle. I would say, with these sliders it's sometimes hard to figure out exactly where they should go because they seem to do subtle things. But if you hold down the option key, Alt in Windows, there's a hidden feature. And that is when you hold down the option key it's gonna act as if your amount slider was turned all the way as low as it can go. Which means that when I click on this I'll see much more dramatic version of what I'm getting. And it makes it easier to judge what setting I might wanna use. And that works for all the sliders that are below amount. But it's not readily apparent that that's the case unless somebody tells you about it. And then I might finally adjust my amount. Let's decide exactly how dark. When you do that be careful though. If you have any bright areas near the corners of your picture it's gonna look artificial. As you are darkening up those corners in, if there was that much light coming through, it shouldn't darken that up. So there is a slider here called "Highlights", and it means if there are any bright areas near those corners keep 'em bright. You bring this up to determine how much are you gonna do that. So watch the bright areas above his head as I bring this up. You see the highlights getting brighter again. So I can decide exactly how bright does that need to be to make it look natural. And so post-crop vignetting is one of the things that I like to do to help get the focus on my image, being towards the middle. And what I would say is, the more complex the image is, the more I can get away with vignetting. The simpler the image is the more obvious vignetting is. If I just have a blue sky, some ocean at the bottom, and that's the picture. If I vignette it it'll be so obvious that I'm vignetting it because there's no detail to compete with the vignetting. But if it's an overly busy and detailed image, like one of those street market scenes, you can darken the corners a lot and nobody's gonna notice because there's so much other detail going on in that scene that it's hard to tell that there's that slight darkening on the edge. So just be a little bit conscience of what kind of image you're applying it to.
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Nichole Sams
I feel the title of this class, Travel Photography, is much to limiting for what you are really going to get. As a wedding photographer, who dreams of traveling, I attending the class live in Seattle, and was hoping to get some inspiration for on location shoots. What I got, however, was a WHOLE LOT MORE. I would recommend this class to anyone with a camera and Lightroom. What I learned about how lightroom works and how to integrate it with photoshop is invaluable. I actually think they should charge WAY more for this course. The bonuses with purchase from the keywords (we are talking every key word you could possibly imagine) and the presets (holycow everything you would ever need) are worth exponentially more than the course price itself. Ben is a gentle easy going teacher and nice to listen to. His ease of teaching pretty complex ideas was truly wonderful. If you are reading this you must buy this course, it is well worth it!