Custom Light Leaks and Sun Flares Lightroom Tutorial Video Lecture | Adobe Lightroom CC: Photo Editing Masterclass - Design

hello everybody welcome into this Adobe
Lightroom tutorial where today we're
going to take a look at creating a
non-destructive light leak
that you can just use to add an element
of drama and flare no pun intended
to any of your images now if you do
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bad boy out so here we are in Lightroom
let's talk about adding a nice lens
flare to any one of these images or just
a sort of a solar flare whatever we're
getting some Sun in the image the series
of photos from a fashion shoot that I
did I think I will probably add the
flare to this image although a couple of
these photos might be conducive to a
flare really like that one I really like
this one I don't know I think we'll
stick with this original one it kind of
has already feels a little dynamic feels
like it has some drama and maybe if we
add a little lens flare it will just
kind of perk up one of the corners of
this photo or multiple corners of the
photo now I like to use the adjustment
brush for creating a lens flare myself
you could in theory use the graduated
filter tool but I tend to like the sort
of roundness of the adjustment brush
it's a little bit more natural to the
way at least that I feel like I usually
see a flare now we're going to begin
here by pumping up the temperature of
the flare to 100 now you could make your
flare as orange or not as you like maybe
want to pump some magenta into there as
well to really make it more of like a
red color it's a very you know
low-hanging hot you know summer sunset
type lens flare with a lot of red in the
sky maybe that's what you've got maybe
you want to cool it off a little bit you
have options because everything's
totally non-destructive I also like to
boost the exposure usually a little over
two-thirds of a stop so I'm going 0.75
but I think I'll probably push it a
full-stop one point zero zero and I want
to get rid of all contrast so we'll go
negative one hundred on the contrast
because those kind of like spots of
light tend to wash out that part of the
image whether you realize it or not and
in the same vein will boost shadows like
50 and will boost blacks up to like 30
so something like that that's probably
cool and moving down through this I
don't know that I'm gonna do anything
with clarity dije saturation sharpness
noise more d fringing I probably will go
and add a color as well again this all
depends on the project let's add a color
and we can always desaturate the orange
a little bit just to make sure it's not
too overpowering and then down here
under brush this is kind of important we
want to boost the size of the brush we
make want to make it pretty huge so
maybe like 7080 on the brush slider a
feather of 100% so we have absolutely
the softest edges to our brush that we
can have and I'm going to crank the flow
up to 100 and this is important we want
to make sure Auto mask is not turned on
density also should be at 100 so now
that we set up the brush it's a matter
of simply clicking and adding a flare
where you want the flare you can see
there we go we added the flare up there
I can double up the flare by just
clicking another time that adds even
more now if you're looking at the image
you're saying you know what it's really
washing out her skin a little bit too
much I can do something like take the
black slider back and just you know set
the black slider like negative 50 and
you can tell it adds this really
interesting sort of gritty element to it
or it's definitely still blasting you
know blasting these windows out but
we're getting like a nice just sort of
the shadows around her hair and her
eyebrow our eyes all that still just
kind of pops a little bit all right
let's just see let's see what this looks
like on a different photo let's go with
this one right here and let's say we add
the lens flare up here right so we can
add that lens flare and really increase
it there we go something like that and
it
and I think in this case we will just
reduce our blacks a little bit more it's
not those blacks down to about 50 you
can see I'll just adds that nice
punchiness
if you want to double up the lens flare
you see over here we have edit selected
go ahead and just hit new new and I'm
going to right off the bat set my blacks
to like negative 40 or so and I'll just
click and click right up there on the
top corner another time and it's going
to double up my lens flare just like so
so it's pretty it's pretty easy to do
and you can go and add a lens flare to
any image that you like it really has to
be done well though you don't want to
add too much but if you add too little
it doesn't look that noticeable so you
just you know you'll play around with it
and when you lay down the lens flare you
can always select it after you've added
the lens flare you can say you know what
definitely way too warm definitely way
too bright and you can just kind of tone
that stuff down a little bit if it
really needs to be toned down and just
make the perfect sort of little pop of
color there for your image for any image
in fact that you may wish to add a lens
flare to so it's a quick little
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for creating a light leak lens flare in
Adobe Lightroom using the adjustment
brush but as you see these settings can
be taken and applied to the graduated
filter tool as well that's it get it got
it good then Oh doesn't touch it calm
okay
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