Getting Started with Lightroom: 10 Essential Tips and Techniques Video Lecture | Adobe Lightroom CC: Photo Editing Masterclass - Design

hey everybody welcome into this Adobe
Lightroom tutorial today we are breaking
it down ten tips and tricks ten things
you just gotta know when you're getting
started with Lightroom these are things
that I think are important I think
you'll find interesting if you're just
getting started with Lightroom maybe
you've been using Lightroom for a little
while and you just want to brush up on
some of the stuff we're going to try to
hammer it out pretty quickly if you do
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video and take a look at the number one
thing that I want to talk about today
and that is importing images because
when you first open Lightroom it's not
full of beautiful pictures and you need
to go out and shoot some beautiful
pictures and then import them into
Lightroom and we're going to do that
using this button right over here import
now I should mention before I hit the
important button import button I am here
in the library module of Lightroom and I
can just hit the import button and what
Lightroom is going to do is bring up
over here I can number one select a
source and this is valuable when you've
plugged in a card reader or something
you can go ahead and navigate directly
to that card reader and just import your
images directly from a card reader and
save them to a place on your hard drive
and sort of link them into Lightroom so
Lightroom can work on them if you
already have the images on your hard
drive and I'm going to find them here on
mine under my hard drive users Nathaniel
Doug's and desktop and hey there it is
that shoot and look at this we've got a
bunch of that cr2 files now a few things
we can do here these these photos as
things stand are not going to be copied
when I have this selection of your ad
chosen Lightroom simply going to link
itself to these images where they are
stashed on my hard drive if I go out to
my finder and I open up the new window
here and I go to my desktop go desktop
there is that shoe
folders I can open that up and here all
these dots here are two files they're
not going to be copied they're going to
be changed Lightroom is simply to say
are I linked to one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten and so on and
so forth and import them into Lightroom
that way so it's more or less
establishing a link we can also do this
here where we move the photos to a new
location essentially copy well just
moving them sorry copying them this next
step here move the photos to new
location and add them to our Lightroom
catalog ie link them up with Lightroom I
almost never use that copy them I also
almost never do this sometimes what I'll
do is copy them and convert them to a
DNG so what this would do is it would
copy all these cr2 files
convert them to D NGS stash the D NGS on
my hard drive I can pick where I want
them to live and link to those D NGS
those DNG files here in Lightroom to
keep things simple for the most part
just go with adhere unless you're going
to really buckle down for D ng and it is
technically the file size a little bit
smaller everything's all packed in there
you can do some research on the pro
sources cons of d ng versus your native
cameraman camera manufacturers RAW files
and you know pick what's best for you or
your workflow we're going to stick with
adhere and what's happened is here in
this central area we have all the photos
and they all have this little check next
time right a little check little check
little check all over the place now I
can uncheck all of them and you can see
they all sort of do this fade-out thing
and let's say I only want to import the
photos of him with a car I could just
select this photo here I haven't checked
it and because they're really kind of
tedious to go check check and so on and
so forth and we go back to uncheck all
you can just hold down your command or
control key and select multiple images
here so I could say all right
all these ones we can really see the car
behind him great and then I can just hit
the check icon and it's going to check
all of them now I just want to bring
them all in so I'm going to choose check
all now there's all kinds of other
things you can do here in terms of don't
import suspected duplicates build these
smart previews we're not going to get
into that right now because we're just
getting started with the Lightroom we
can make a second copy in this case
we're not making second copies file
handling we're not going to worry about
that right now now you can also go in
and apply certain presets on import now
you might think why would I ever want to
apply you know like some black and white
preset to all of my imports well you
probably don't want to do something like
that unless it's from a specific shoot
where you don't
everything it's under the same light
it's all going to be converted to the
same very specific look that can be
useful if you're shooting for a client
over and over and over again and every
photo needs the same look create a
preset and you can automatically apply
to every photo that's brought in from
that shoot but something that maybe is a
little bit more practical is applying a
little bit of grain and sharpening so
create a little preset that's like hey
that's my grain and sharpening preset
apply that to all the images that come
in you can also throw some metadata in
your images so you could say a new
create a new little piece of metadata
here we can call this like you know you
know basic stuff or something basic and
you can you know put whatever you want
here you could set you know a copyright
so you can just say copyrights and you
know whatever you want in terms of your
copyright and for the Mac to get the
copyright symbol it's option G on the PC
you need the number pad and it's alt 0 1
6 9 so you can go ahead and create a
piece of metadata or all kinds of
metadata that are automatically attached
to all of your photos as are imported
you go and hit you go ahead and hit the
import button and Lightroom is going to
quickly import those files you can see
it's super fast because it doesn't copy
the files not converting the files
anything it's just linking Lightroom to
those files ok so number 2 the second
thing you really need to know about is
sorting and viewing images in your
library
number one you can select any photo here
obviously and if you just hit the letter
F it's going to pop that photo up to
full screen View mode and you can just
take a closer look at the photo hit the
letter F again it gets you out of full
screen View mode really a super quick
and super easy way to take a look at a
photo that you just got to get a closer
look at what is the shot look like here
right ok not bad alright I can f get out
of full screen View mode now if you just
want to get a better look at everything
you can use the little thumbnail slider
down here and just slide that to the
right make all of your thumbnails larger
and then maybe you don't need to pop
everything up to full screen to get a
decent look at it you can also drag any
of your panels so you just hover over
the edge of a panel drag it left or
right and you can expand or contract
your panels or you can hit these little
arrows over here on the sides of your
monitor right you can collapse those
panels all together you can do this with
all the panels top bottom left to right
and you can hit the tab key to bring
them all back or make them all go away
whatever you like you can do anything
like that here in Lightroom and really
customize and tweak the UI the user
interface your workspace as much as you
like want to make my thumbnails a little
bit smaller here
one last thing I want to show you about
viewing and sorting your images is a
little bit to do with the sorting part
let's say we we want to select multiple
images well as we saw when we imported
we can select one image and command or
control click multiple images or if we
want to select a continuous strip of
images let's say we know we want image
13 here all the way over to image 18 you
can click on the first image hold down
shift click on image 18 it's going to
select all those images and maybe we
want to set them aside in a temporary
collection well we have this little
quick collection here and I can see
Lightroom is telling me there's four
photos that are in there right now I
don't want any photos in there so I'm
going to right click on quick
collections they look clear the quick
collection and then what I can do with
these photos here is simply the letter B
the letter B will add these six photos
now there's six photos in the quick
collection and this is great because as
I'm going through my images and I just
want to quickly grab a bunch that I
really like I can just select it hit the
letter B boom it's gonna throw it in
quick collection I can hit command or
control B at any time and it's going to
bring up my quick collection folder so I
can then look at my selects and then
from something like the quick collection
folder we're going to talk about this in
a little bit we can create like a real
collection not just a quick sort of
temporary collection I'm going to right
click on this and just choose to clear
this quick collection go back to up to
my previous import here say previous
import and these are the 60 photos that
we just dragged in of John now beyond
quick collection and stuff maybe there
photos that we really like maybe this
portrait here we just think is really
really great just the spacebar key by
the way to jump into Loop View mode and
the letter G to jump back to grid view
mode let's say we really like this photo
of John there's all kinds of sorting and
picking against the letter P to flag it
as a pic see the little flag icon got
activated you can hit the letter U to
unpick it so that's how you think of it
as the letter U not for remove flag but
rather unpick is how I remember that but
let's say you're picking and unpicking
is not enough we want to really dive
deep on these images we can go up here
to photo and choose to set a rating
between one and five stars and note the
hotkey these are so fast and easy 1 2 3
4 5 I love the image I hit the number 5
boom 5 stars she that's so easy I don't
like it the number 0 all the stars go
away we can also go and set a color
label this is really helpful for me
because if I have images that need to be
sent to photoshop or I need to continue
retouching I'll give them a yellow label
but once they're done I give them a
green label so you can just use the
numbers right you got six through nine
purple is its own thing hanging out
there but if we say we want to retouch
this give it a number seven that's a
yellow and then we say yeah we kind of
like that and that'll be a seven as well
but then this guy down here he's already
retouched he'll be 1/8 and he'll be 1/8
and he'll be 1/8 all right so we can do
that we can select all these images that
we have you know given a specific color
we can clear the color by going photo
set color label none or and this is
where the color labels really become
helpful we can come down here to our
filter drop down menu here and we need
to hit this little switch icon that's
going to turn our filter on and we can
see look up here look at us all the
stuff came so they looked only give me
the photos with a green filter and there
they are the three photos of the green
filter now we can add to that say you
know what give me the ones with the
yellow filter too or and I want to see
the ones with a green filter and they go
away I can click on yellow again it's
going to get rid of that parameter and
all my images show up you can do the
same thing with flags stuff you flagged
as a pic stuff that's not a pic you know
something that has a three star rating
or anything better than a 3 star rating
there's all kinds of stuff you can do
with the filtering system in Lightroom 2
very very quickly go ahead and begin
sorting your images and knowing exactly
what images you want to attack and
retouch and clean up and do whatever
needs to be done to deliver some
seriously kick-butt images to your
client I'm going to get rid of these
color labels here and before we move on
let's just real quick talk about
deleting images because there's not
really a better place to talk about it
let's say we want to delete an image
well you can right-click on any image
and choose remove photo now Lightroom is
going to say look would you like to
delete the selected master photo from
the disk or just remove it from
Lightroom remember these images are
simply linked through from that shoot
folder right so this last image number
60 here is this underscore mg underscore
double-o 60 gr 2 that's that image so if
I tell Lightroom look delete it from the
disk Lightroom will go in and delete it
from the disk and get rid of it so if I
just want to remove it from my catalogue
but still preserve it on my hard drive I
just choose remove to really emphasize
this point I'm going to choose delete
from disk I almost never use this option
in real life in fact I would say I maybe
have used it five times ever
I'll just go delete from disk and I go
back to my finder and sure enough
double-o 60 is no
longer there it just stops at zero zero
five nine so Lightroom did in fact
delete that so usually if you want to
get an image out of a collection or you
just import it too many images and you
need to get rid of all these images here
on the end right click remove photos and
you would just choose remove them that
way they would still be on your hard
drive you could reinforce them if you
needed them or if you're just working on
them in Photoshop or something you can
always do that and you haven't gotten
rid of all of your RAW files so let's
move on to number four and this is
collections let's just take a look here
all of these shots here where he is
leaning against the back of this car
right you see all these shots from 46 to
57 he's leaning against this car let's
just say we pick those out real quick
and we add it we'd added those to a
quick collection right there over here
in the quick collection there's twelve
them in there great you don't need to
add go quick collection first but I'm
just going to use this as an example
we've got all 12 of these images here we
can just select them all and I can come
down here to my collections the panel
and I can hit this little plus icon I
can just go plus create collection and I
can say look pay Lightroom include the
selected photos in this new collection
and I'm going to call this John Silver
car and I'm going to choose create and
there it is John Silver car has been
created and there are twelve images in
there just as many as I have in my quick
collection alright so I can click on my
quick collection right click and clear
the quick collection like that temporary
holding bin I can dump it and all of
those images are still here in my
collection this is more like a more
permanent bin that's stashed in my
Lightroom shelf if you will I can come
back here my previous import we get
these 59 photos that are left and I can
begin adding more photos to this
collection so I can say you know I also
want these these four images are you
standing in front of the car I can
select those four drag them and drop
them on that collection now there's 16
images in that collection well let's say
as we're doing this we also want to add
some of these close up portraits so we
could just take like these four pour
these let's say these six portraits here
and drag them and drop them in that
collection well now it's not just John
Silver carts John Silver car and head
shots so we'll right-click on this
collection and we can rename it very
easily John Silver car and head shots
something like that
rename it boom there it is it's renamed
just like that and of course if you
decide you need to delete a collection
you can always right-click and choose to
delete now I'm going to do this because
I want to show you something kind of
important
when we delete this collection because
hey look you're deleting this collection
it contains 22 photos these photos will
remain in your catalog and they still be
referenced in other collections great I
want to just get rid of that that
collection I don't want to delete those
photos see there's still 59 of them here
my previous import I don't want to get
rid of those photos I do want them still
to be here in Lightroom
I just need setup maybe a different
collection or I've decided I want to
organize the photos from the shoot in a
different way
now I think what I'm going to do here is
just select all 59 of these photos
command or control a is the hotkey and
I'm going to click create collection and
I'm going to create a collection
including the selected photos and I'm
going to call this John I'm going to
create that it's going to throw all 59
of these images over in this collection
why am I doing this well because of
course when I do my next import I'm not
going to have this temporary collection
up here this previous import is going to
go to whatever mine shoot tomorrow is
going to be right I'm going to import
all those photos and those are not going
to be previous import so if I want to
get back and continue working on my
shots of John it's very easy to just
throw them in a collection and I know
they're there I can go to my all
photographs but then you kinda have to
like sort through everything and find ok
there they are great there's the photos
of John now I can find you know which
one I wanted to work on but if I just
create a collection these are all the
photos of John they're here they're
ready for me to work on it's a beautiful
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video now speaking of beautiful things
whitebalance I want to talk to you about
auto and manual white balance
adjustments here in Lightroom let's go
ahead and grab this photo here and we're
going to jump over to the develop module
by just clicking on the word develop
when we enter into the develop module
this is where you do all the magic stuff
right so while your presets are over
here and you can hover over any preset
and get a little bit of a preview of
what it's going to look like up there in
the Navigator window that's pretty cool
I can see oh wow that's a pretty cool
black and white or that looks
that looks neat or whatever I don't
think I'm we need is a preset here we
want to talk about white balance you
have all of these different panels you
can click any one of them they open up
at the very top of the basic panel as if
it's a rather important thing you have
your white balance options your white
balance eyedropper and WB and the
temperature and tint sliders so a
temperature and tint works is you slide
it toward the blue it cools the image
off you slide it toward the orange it's
going to warm the image up so if you
know your image has a heavy blue color
cast in order to suck some of that blue
out you actually introduce some orange
there for warming the image up and
neutralizing that blue color cast now if
you drag this too far you're going to
muck in your image up and making it like
super orange and grimy looking now maybe
that's a very dramatic desert like
grading feel that you're going for and
that's fine of us we're going for but
just know if you have an image like this
that's just very orange maybe the answer
is cut back on the orange neutralize it
by adding in some blue now if your image
has a magenta color cast the opposite of
magenta is green so the tint slider is
going to deal with sliding between green
and magenta if you've got a lot of
magenta in the photo slide toward the
green if you have a heavy green color
cast in your photo well just slide
further the magenta a little bit and
you'll basically be able to find a sweet
spot now I'm going to very intentionally
knock this image way out of whack and
we're going to talk about the auto white
balance eyedropper tool you can just
click on this tool to pick it up click
again to put it down click it to pick it
up and hover over an area of the photo
that should be white or of a neutral
color so we're going to choose kind of a
diffused highlight down here on the
collar of his shirt something like that
and I'm going to click once and we can
see Lightroom goes and does all of the
automatic temperature and tint
adjustments for us make sure that part
of the shirt is white or very light gray
and corrects the entire rest of the
image using that little bit of
information so the auto and manual white
balance tools here in Lightroom are
super useful they're really really great
and fast and the manual stuff is really
nice if you want to go in and say you
know what I know this maybe is the
proper color but I want to enrich it and
make it a little bit warmer I know it
was sunset I really want those warm
tones to be floating in the sky and in
the air around him and I really want to
add that orangey light to his skin and
you can do that just like that
and one last thing before we move on you
have this drop-down menu that has a
bunch of preset
whitebalance something like you know the
daylight setting in your camera or the
shade setting in your camera tungsten
fluorescent you name it again I
virtually always keep this on custom and
I just roll with it and do my thing and
adjust the white balance to my heart's
delight now in addition to white balance
moving along to what would be the sixth
thing we have all these tonal options
here you can increase the exposure of
your shot you can decrease the exposure
of your shot and by the way as you do
this it's a good idea to keep an eye on
this thing up here called the histogram
which is going to let you know if you've
got way too much going on in the
highlights of your photos or way too
much going on in the shadows of your
photos see as I make the photo darker
see how all the data in the image
compresses to these blacks and shadowy
portion of the histogram that's not
necessarily a good thing unless it's the
exact look I was going for which in this
case it's not usually a histogram that's
pretty spread out is a pretty well
exposed image now that's just speaking
very very generally you're going to kind
of be able to get to know when a photo
is overexposed or not you can use these
little buttons here so blue triangle a
little red or not red triangle gray
triangle you can click on those to turn
on sort of the clipping warning so if we
make the image super bright those are
going to start telling us when we lose
all data in certain areas so those areas
are solid white we're not getting any
data back if we export this image like
that and same thing if you go back to it
exposure the blue area is our pitch
black shadow where the image has now
lost all detail if you print this image
it's going to be a big blob of black
there whereas if you just bring it back
even though maybe it looks like it's too
dark you really only have a little tiny
bit of like super dark shadow there and
the photo you know would all the detail
is still there so I'm going to double
click on that little slider to restore
it to just the 0% you have contrast of
course increased decrease your contrast
increasing contrast can be a nice look
you just open up a lot of those shadows
and highlights and really give your
image a more flat look and then of
course you can target highlights and
shadows highlights and shadows target
those particular tonal ranges very
generally so just generally the brighter
parts of the image and generally the
darker parts of the image whereas whites
and blacks more specifically target
those areas of your image you can see
well like when I hover over shadows
right this slider
watch what happens up here in the
histogram you'll see what part of the
histogram lights up see it's the it's
dark but it's not quite the blacks it's
the dark areas the image there whereas
my hover over black
those really really dark areas over
there really they get highlighted so you
can make the darks or the blacks darker
or the blacks lighter making the blacks
late or tends to give the image a little
bit of a faded effect and the same thing
here with whites you can make the whites
brighter or you can make the whites
darker depending on if your highlights
are completely out of control or not
this can be a particularly helpful
slider by the way if you're shooting
somebody over a seamless white
background and you didn't quite expose
the seamless white entirely give it a
little kick with whites and even maybe
the highlights and you can tend to boost
a lot of that and get yourself a nice
white background obviously you know if
you can get it right in camera with the
lights get it right in camera with the
lights and you can also adjust the
clarity which is kind of like a mid-tone
punch you go too high on the Senate
looks like one of those cheap Instagram
filters that every sort of like athletic
profile uses and maybe it sort of works
for the athletic stuff but in general
for your portraits you don't want to do
it and reducing the clarity is like a
really horrible version of that smearing
smearing of the Vaseline on the camera
lens years and years ago and then we
have vibrance and saturation so increase
vibrance does like a saturation boost
but tends to protect skin tones and
saturation is just a wholesale
no-holds-barred increase of color across
the image I'd also be remiss if I didn't
add here the black and white feature
which converts your image to black and
white allows you to mess around with
stuff like the contrast here in the
exposure and things like that and really
tweak and get a pretty cool looking
black and white photo as well I'm going
to just undo that and undo the contrast
go back to the color version of my photo
add it there everything is now we're not
really going to get into the tone curve
HSL split toning all this stuff here
maybe we'll touch on detail and
sharpening is a little bit of a bonus
tip but for now I want to talk about
this tool right here the adjustment
brush so the adjustment brush you click
on it and you can see a dialog opens or
panel opens that looks fairly similar to
the basic tab that we just looked at and
in large part it is very similar when
you select this brush you are able now
to selectively apply changes to your
image so I'm going to double click to
reset exposure
let's say I want to make a part of my
image really really orange alright and I
can take this brush and I can just make
the size bigger here since the actual
brush tipping of the brush size bigger
the flow is at 50 I'm going to set the
flow
100 that's maximum amount of Orangina
sporting out of it and the feather or
the softness of the edge of the brushes
at 100 if I reduce that you can see how
the the brush is not going to sort of
like look like a spray-paint can anymore
it's going to be very hard edge so I can
like paint out here let me just click
and paint out here and you can see how
orange this is becoming right but it's
the only part of the image that's being
affected over here still is not orange
at all in fact I could use this little
new button here click on that and I
could make another brush that's
completely blue and I come over to this
side of the photo and I could paint this
side of the photo in blue so the
adjustment brush allows you to really go
in and tackle your image and you know
apply selective adjustments to your
photo of course it's still
non-destructive but some of the
important thing is about the brush tool
our being able to set size and feather
and the flow so I'm going to turn the
flow down here the flow is basically the
amount of effect that's coming out if
it's a firehose we only have a 30
percent open now so we can just apply a
little bit of blueness to the side of
the space not the full you know the full
blast blue that was being applied out
here and you also all these other
settings you can use in here from
temperature intent to exposure and and
clarity and saturation you can also
increase sharpness noise work on more
and also D fringing all these are
options that you can use the adjustment
brush for now one really cool thing
about the adjustment brush is the
ability to auto mask so if we turn auto
mask on we create a new new adjustment
brush here and we I don't know we'd do
something like it's got to be something
crazy
let's hit the little color thumbnail
here CAC color we can choose color thumb
now and let's go with like a really
really hot pink and let's paint this
over his his tie so I'm going to reduce
the size of my brush a bit there we go
now I'm going to paint this over his tie
now it doesn't look like too too much is
happening that's probably a combination
because our flow is super low it's a
very dark object and we haven't increase
the exposure at all for it so we'll
bring the exposure up and we're going to
go in there and we're going to paint
with this color over the tie and you can
see how it's not perfect but that's
mainly because our brush is so big but
it does a really good job of containing
virtually all of that pink there in his
in his tie let's undo this a couple of
times let's just try that again I'm
going to make my brush a little bit
smaller here and we're going to go in
and you
see we can paint and really make this
make the the brush change color again I
lost my exposure adjustment cuz I undo a
couple too many times but I can boost
that exposure again undo that I don't
mean to drag the brush across the
document and really brighten the type
and you can see it does a really really
good job again I was too sloppy you can
always hold down the alt or option key
and it'll switch you to the erase tool
and you can go in and erase away stuff
that needs to be erased you can see just
like this we can go in and clean up the
edges of an adjustment brush that we've
used to really get the perfect effect
just hold them on alt or option key it's
really really quite easy and you know
you can touch-up tie down there as well
now if you decide you don't like one of
these effects well simply click on it
and hit your delete key and boom poof
it's gone we don't like this blue side
delete key it's gone we like the are
inside but it needs to be adjusted a
little bit we can select it and make any
adjustments we need to make over here in
this panel so the adjustment brush is a
super flexible super non-destructive way
to go in and begin painting in
adjustments in your image you can go in
at any point hit the delete key get rid
of any adjustment brush a point that
you've laid down and it's just a great
super duper duper useful tool here in
Adobe Lightroom so let's just do
something quick with this guy we're
going to apply a preset for the sake of
time I'm going to go with this FTE the
Woman preset it's kind of a heavy preset
but just so we can really see that we've
applied something this image I want to
go over here to this image I'm going to
take this image and we're going to we're
going to work on some cropping obviously
the softbox the octa is still there in
the shot
we need to crop that away unless we're
going to Photoshop and extend the bridge
which is you know you can do that but
we're talking about cropping here so
let's talk about cropping right here is
the crop tool right there in the top
left along the strip of tools above the
basic panel so go ahead and hit the crop
tool we can do a few things here we can
simply grab a corner and crop to
whatever size we want
you know undo that command or control Z
we can hold down our Shift key and that
will constrain the image to the original
proportions right so you're never going
to lose that proportion of your camera
spits out we can click on the blank
space next to aspect and a few options
will pop up first in terms of aspect
ratio we want to crop an 8 by 10 go with
4 by 5 / 8 by 10 we went a crop of 16 by
9
boom crop a 16 by 9 you can enter custom
and save custom crops as well 2 3 9 by 1
is so
that cinematic widescreen right and in
this case of course it's just tall and
thin because the image is portrait
orientation on landscape orientation but
and we're working with what we're
working with here let's click Next to
aspect again and just go with original
and we can just pull this corner in a
little bit and get rid of the the
softbox I'm going to drag the image and
pull my crop up a little and there we go
we're cutting off his legs now I don't
really like that I'm going to cut them
at the shins something like that hit
enter/return to commit the change and
there's your new cropped image I'm going
to shut off my little highlight and
shadow warnings there just because
they're a little annoying back there on
the Mercedes so the crops will can be
really really effective and really nice
and one little trick is when you bring
it up number one you can see we never
actually got rid of the image that we
crop the way it's just sort of
temporarily hidden because the crop tool
here in Lightroom is very
non-destructive but if you're worrying
about a composition and you're just
looking to crop to recompose your image
a little bit hit the letter o a few
times and you get a few different grids
you get you know the golden ratio and
you know showing you different sizes in
terms of two by three five by seven four
by five you know a thirds grid all kinds
of different grids that you can use to
space and align and adjust your objects
to make them just right you can also use
the angle slider if an image needs to be
tilted slightly in one direction it's a
really nice way to just go ahead and tip
an image this way or that way to really
get the look that you need to get click
and drag here just that just kind of
like so and again enter return to commit
that change and you take the crop and
now looks like the car so the angle
behind them it the photo looks a little
bit more aggressive and we're able to
achieve that with the crop tool so we've
got this photo that we crop this is
going to bring us along to the ninth
thing that you really want to know about
Lightroom as you're getting started and
that is copying settings from one photo
to another so we have this photo we've
applied this preset too but let's just
for a moment pretend that's not a preset
and all of these see we do have stuff
going on the tone curve and these color
channels in here and just all kinds of
stuff we don't want to be bothered going
in you know redoing everything exactly
on another photo like this photo what do
we do well you can right-click on that
photo go up to develop settings and
choose copy settings now when we do this
layer is going to say hey what settings
would you like to copy and we can say
hey check all of them but
the problem is remember we just applied
that crop to that photo so we don't want
to copy the crop from this photo because
that's just going to get rid of our crop
all together we probably don't want to
copy things like spot removal because
that's going to be different in
basically every image that we shoot
transform options that has to do it like
lens correction but like the manual lens
correction so you probably don't want to
copy that lens correction in general if
it's an auto lens correction it's fine
but if it's a custom lens correction you
obviously probably don't want to copy
that over we'll just uncheck that for
the sake of unchecking it and you can
look over everything else local
adjustments like the adjustment brush or
graduated filters and radio filters it's
this stuff up here again that stuff is
usually applied on an image by image
basis so I'm going to uncheck that so
that's not copied over either so we're
going to choose copy and now what we can
do is we can take as many images as we
like we could take this image hold down
shift and click right through to our
cropped image these four photos and we
can choose right-click develop settings
paste settings and you can see just like
that Lightroom applies those changes
across all of those photos now real
quick let's there's even a faster way to
do this too you can do if you want to
take the settings from this image and
let's say apply them to this image here
we can select this image hold down shift
and select the image before and just hit
this button right here sync sync it it's
going to say hey what settings would you
like to synchronize we're going to
synchronize all the stuff except the
stuff that we just went over we're going
to say synchronize and just like that
the image before it's the same exact
treatment so there's a lot of really
really easy ways to copy settings and
paste settings across multiple images
and use the sync feature to sync up
images as you color core maybe you're
color correcting bunch of images or
sharpening up sharpening a bunch of
images and you quickly want to get those
effects from one image to all of your
images you can do that very easily and
by the way you can also if you hate the
way an image looks like this is the look
we want not this look you can always
right-click develop settings and choose
reset to get you back out to the image
as it was shot in camera or as you
imported it into Lightroom now I'm just
going to add here as a bonus seeing
myself a zoom in the Navigator panel is
extremely helpful when you're working
here in Adobe Lightroom it allows you to
see the overall image even when you're
zoomed in working on a specific part of
it see here I'm zoomed in to what's
called a one-to-one which is exactly
100% you can see zoom photo to 100
and it's one pixel is one pixel on your
screen and it's not it's not zoomed in
any further than it should be it's not
zoomed out you're seeing the true blue
image at 100% resolution two to one is
twice that so you're zooming in about
200% now we can also hit this little
drop-down menu here beside two to one
we've got a whole bunch of other options
we can go eight to one if we want we can
go eleven to one if we want where's
eleven to one there it is we can go
eleven to one and at any point you can
just click and it's going to take you
back out to your fit mode you can also
go to fill which is going to well fit
fit your image in the the viewing area
of Adobe Lightroom Phil is going to make
sure that it fills the viewing area of
Adobe Lightroom one-to-one as I
mentioned is going to take it to 100%
zoom and then whatever you have here
it's going to do whatever you have I
find three to one and four to one I use
the most they just tend to be the most
helpful and by the way out here in the
Navigator I can double click it's going
to zoom me back out to my fill mode but
if I click on any part of the image like
oh what's that little circular thing I
can zoom right in on it where I can drag
this box here and I can just move right
over to a space or drag it down to the
car headlight and I can look at the car
headlight the car real rear wheel double
click on that box and get right back out
to my filled mode just like so and just
remember in general you click on an
image you're going to zoom in on here
I'm zooming in to three two one because
I've got three to one set here in my
image so I'll zoom in to three to one
and I click again it automatically zooms
me back out so it's a very quick and
easy way to just zoom in all different
parts of an image check on some detail
see if something still needs to be
retouched or cleaned up in a certain
spot and then get right back out to
viewing the image as a whole from a
little bit further away so let's talk
about the tenth thing and it's a really
really powerful aspect of Lightroom it's
the whole ability to export images in
such a myriad of ways I'm just going to
show you how to export a few simple
images but as you can see up here
there's book slideshow print web exports
you can export PDFs you can export all
kinds of stuff from Lightroom
it's really pretty incredible when it
comes just a number of different things
in ways you can export an image or a
series of images let's grab this first
image we're going to right click on it
and choose export and then just the
regular export dot dot I'm going to
choose that and up pops my export one
file dialog box now if I selected
multiple files
let's just select multiple files let's
let's go this one and we'll hold down
shift and select that right click export
export and you'll see here export five
files so we can choose export to a
specific folder where would you like to
save it on the desktop that's fine so we
want to rename it custom settings or or
you know go in here and edit and you
know tweak do I want the sequence name
plus something else it's a little it's a
little convoluted how that works it's
actually simple when you sit down and
figure it out but we're not going to go
through it here in this tutorial so just
for the sake of not bogging down your
mind just think of it as convoluted
until you have time to go play with it
you can give it a specific start number
at which it will begin you can see it's
going to say look example the first
image exporter is going to be 0 3 8 so
I'll probably say 1 because usually you
want your first image to be number 1
file settings do want to be in a JPEG
PSD TIFF PNG the original file we're
going to go JPEG you can choose a
quality at what you would like to save
it you can then this is really helpful
here image resizing let's say you're
shooting on a camera that's you know 30
40 50 megapixels and you don't want to
deliver those huge massive JPEGs to a
client they're not going to know what to
do with them you could take 100 photos
that you're sending to a client's a
local resize them to fit within a
particular box
so you could say 50 s within a box
that's 2048 pixels by 2048 pixels and
you know that client when they take
those photos and upload them to Facebook
it's going to be at an optimum size for
Facebook to display your photos and give
you no more beautiful impression of you
and guess what the all the resizing is
already done for the client as you're
exporting them so that's super useful
and super easy you can apply some output
sharpening as well I usually don't mess
around with the output sharpening and
then again we can play around with our
metadata you can add a watermark if you
know how to set up watermarks here in
Lightroom we would have to do another
tutorial on that and then you can just
tell it what to do after the export
we're going to choose to show the Finder
window where these are being exported so
I'm going to choose export and you're
going to see up here in the top left
corner Lightroom says look I'm exporting
these five files but you can really go
about your business in Lightroom I could
keep editing additional photos if I
wanted at this point and I'm going to
choose to set this to fill up you're a
fit excuse me so I can see my entire
image and you can just go through do
mind your business keep retouching
images and when it's done boom up pops
your Finder window and there's oh oh 1 2
3 4 5 all the JPEGs
X
boarded from the raw files here out of
Lightroom so that's a really fast and
easy way to convert your RAW files to
JPEGs obviously your RAW files are still
there they're on your hard drive saved
in the that shoot folder in my case and
see all the raw files are still here
none of them got converted they simply
got duplicated and exported as a JPEG so
so those RAW files live on and still
look beautiful and have all that data
and amazingness for you to retouch and
work on in the future I'm going to close
this now before we wrap this up I do
just want to show you one last thing in
terms of it's sort of exporting you can
right-click on any image and you can
choose to edit in and you can choose to
edit in Adobe Photoshop and it'll take
this raw file ship it over to photoshop
when you're finished editing it in
Photoshop
it will when you close the file it just
sort of automatically ships it right
back to Lightroom and you're hunky-dory
you're good to go it's pretty awesome so
if you need to do some like advanced
maybe a sky removal or the sky
replacement I should say you probably
never want to really remove the sky but
you know you're building a composite or
something and you you import your photos
and you organize them in Lightroom you
take it over to photoshop for the heavy
heavy retouching bring it back to
Lightroom for all the fine
tonal work and color and sharpness and
noise you're good to go it's really
really useful so if you've enjoyed this
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