Rich Faded Wedding Photo Effect in Lightroom (TUTORIAL) Video Lecture | Adobe Lightroom CC: Photo Editing Masterclass - Design

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hey everybody Nathanael dogs from Tut
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Lightroom tutorial
it is installment number two of from raw
to glorious JPEG back in August I
started this I said I was gonna try to
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and here we sit that probably about
around the middle of November when this
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them so we're gonna try to kind of get
this thing back on track I've mentioned
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- glorious jpg to which I answer oh
shoot that's a good point but here we
are with installment number two we're
gonna cover a bunch of cool stuff in
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and check this thing out alright so here
we are we got a wedding photo this was
such a fun wedding to shoot such a cool
venue just beautiful architecture all
around what I'm gonna do before I do
anything and normally I do cropping at
the end but I kind of want to crop this
to a box so I'm gonna grab the crop tool
i'm gonna click aspect or right next to
aspect and choose one two one and i'm
gonna drag this maybe something kind of
like that i really like to use my
navigator up here to get a good overall
view of how the image is going to look i
just feel like it gives it a nice even
amount of space on three sides of the
bride and groom here with this
particular crop i kind of like it i'm
gonna hit the enter key to commit myself
to that crop like i said normally i crop
at the end of the whole editing process
but i just want to kind of get it out of
the way up front here so first things
first before beginning and messing
around with the basic tab i want to jump
right down to camera calibration and i'm
gonna change my profile from Adobe
standard to camera neutral camera
neutral tends to give you a little bit
more dynamic range it just it gives the
the the feeling that you're DS arnott
desaturating but d contrasting the image
a little bit but it really seems to open
up the shadows just a tiny bit and just
dumb down and cool off the highlights
just a touch I'm also gonna infuse my
shadows here with right around plus 35
heading toward the magenta I'll probably
desaturate Red's about negative
of negative 20-ish just to make sure my
skin tones are not looking to read I
like that in terms of the green let's
maybe shift the hue of the green
negative I'm at negative 26 I think that
looks good for this particular image for
your image may be able to be a little
different but I am going to boost the
saturation of the greens just a little
bit I really want to try to bring out
some of the color here in this little
sort of mink stole or a fur jacket
whatever that is that she's wearing I
kind of dig it I'm gonna shift the blue
hue a little bit as well go like
negative 10 negative or I'm at negative
13 and then I definitely want to
desaturate this a little bit so if i
desaturate it too much you can see it
gives me kind of this like super dark
moody look which I don't hate but it's
not really quite what we're going for
here I think I'll go like negative
negative 40 negative I'm at negative 38
if you're following my numbers exactly I
kind of like it we can use our little
toggle switch here so you can see
there's before there's after you can see
we're just toning the image down a
little bit before we go in and really
start attacking contrast and color and
things like that I'm gonna come into
effects and I'm going to boost D haze
here just infuse some a good amount of
this kind of contrast II punch that D
haze has to offer you can see again
before after it just gives us that nice
punch that I that I really kind of like
and then also to get it out of the way
so we don't forget in the detail tab
here I'm gonna select the loop here and
I'm gonna either I put it on her face or
his face maybe his face we can actually
see it and then we're gonna begin the
sharpening process now I'm gonna come
over here to navigator I'm gonna choose
to view the image at a one-to-one which
means it's gonna zoom the image to 100%
and when you're sharpening your images
you should be viewing them at 100% now a
little trick hold on your altar option
key while you're dragging any of the
sliders here in the sharpening tab and
you can see here for like sharpening
it's going to give me this monochromatic
version of my image so I can really just
focus on the sharpening and how it's
affecting the edges and not necessarily
color and tone cool I'm gonna hold down
alt and I'm gonna drag the radius radius
doesn't need to be a change that much
right around one will probably be fine
and then detail you can also see with
not very much detail or you can get a
lot of detail if you crank detail up too
much I notice it gives like this crunchy
noisy grainy texture to your image which
is not not so cool and then we'll come
over here to masking and all holding an
altar option is most important here for
masking because we want to really just
focus on targeting the details on them
so just the white areas that you see the
white areas are what
the sharpening is going to attack so
these big areas of just like dark navy
blue or black whatever color as tuxedo
is here like sharpening that really all
it's going to do is bring out grain and
noise we really want to focus our
sharpening here around his face now
we've masked a little bit too much
because you can see how we got like this
softness in his skin
so that's too much I'm gonna hold down
alter option I'm gonna back them asking
up and I'm gonna really affect much more
of the image that looks a lot better but
I think I need to reduce the detail a
little bit and you can just keep going
over and make sure you get the
sharpening where you want it to be that
that's good enough for now I'm gonna
come back up here to navigator choose to
fit the image and we're onto the next
step so let's come up here to basic and
I'm gonna change the temperature I want
to boost it I wanna make it a little
warmer we'll push it up around 6,500 I
kind of dig that if you're picky with
your numbers you could just round it off
at 6,500 exactly I think I want to
infuse a little green into this so I'm
gonna slide tint backward about negative
10 negative 11 something like that looks
cool it still needs a little more
contrast I'm gonna use my up arrow keys
I just select the end of the contrast
input slider I'll go like plus 15 I
think that's cool highlights are good
from where I sit I'm gonna come down
here to shadows I'm gonna boost the
shadow so this is actually making the
shadows brighter I'm gonna go to plus 50
with those and then the actual blacks
I'm gonna make them darker so I'm gonna
knock them down one two three I'll
probably go three I know it looks like
we're doing a lot of damage but you'll
see we're gonna bring it back here in a
moment and you'll see how exactly we do
that then I'm gonna boost my clarity
I'll go like I usually don't go much
more than 20 or 30 in this case yeah 25
30 that looks pretty good
and just to tone down some of the color
a little bit I'm gonna knock my vibrance
down negative 10 now it looks like we've
done a lot of damage to this image hang
with me we're going to be playing with
tone curves and that's going to be
changing things a lot here in just a
second so here in tone curve by the way
I'm using I'm using the point curve not
the parametric curve this I believe is
called the parametric curve I prefer to
use the point curve you have a lot more
control it's a little more maybe
advanced if you will but yeah we'll take
care of how to work with that right here
right now I'm gonna select this bottom
point this is the black point in the
image and I'm gonna drag it straight
upward you're gonna see that's
immediately gonna lift all those dark
shadow as we created and give us this
like faded almost like milky look in our
shadows that's cool then I'm going to
click another point
back and pull my line back to kind of
where it was that's gonna now give us
this faded contrast to look I'm also
gonna pull up over here I'm gonna maybe
add another line here or another another
point I'm sorry another point there I'm
just looking to boost the brightness in
the brighter parts of the image over
here this is the darker area of the
image this is kind of like somewhat dark
this is somewhat bright and this is the
absolute brightest parts of the image
and up here if you pull up you make it
brighter if you pull down you make it
darker so you can see we're already
getting this like really interesting
toning effect here on our image
borderline like a dare I say faded film
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back to this tutorial but we also want
to play around with the individual color
Channel so right now we're just in the
composite RGB Channel let's go to the
red Channel and what we'll do here is we
will add a second point here and boost
the Reds and the shadows but it's really
giving us this red wash over and iron
our entire image excuse me I'm stumbling
over my words here so I want to add a
second point here and just pull
everything back into line kind of like
that it's gonna cool off some of that
redness and the highlights right and it
almost infuses some cyan as well so you
can just play around with that maybe I
have a little bit too much red going on
in there I'll just tone it down a very
little bit just something like that
that's cool let's go over to the green
Channel and here on the green Channel
I'm just gonna add a point here and I'm
gonna nudge it downward a tiny tiny bit
just gonna give us a little little tiny
bit of of magenta and I think that's
actually too much and this has to be
super SuperDuper subtle go something I
was something like that I'm just playing
with it till it looks about right if it
looks like it's too much red or magenta
that's where we adjust that here in the
greens let's run down to the blue
channel here and here in the blue
channel yellow is the opposite of blue
I'm gonna add a point somewhere up here
in the the moderate brights of the image
and just pull down on it a very little
bit just add a little bit of yellow or
yellowish color to the highlights so
once again if we shut off tone curves we
turn on tone curves we're getting this
kind of color grade effect that we've
created now next
we're gonna come to the HS L section and
we got our hue saturation and luminance
I think I want to begin with hue and I'm
just looking here at his skin tone it
looks a little bit too red and and I
don't know not quite right I'm gonna use
a little scrubby slider tool here and I
can be dragging up or down on that you
can see if I drag down it makes it more
pink than it was that's not right so I
want to drag this upward a little bit
and just man will go up a little bit I
think I'm gonna change some of the Reds
to make them a little bit more orange as
well so I'm just gonna manually drag the
red slider for that and I think I'm some
of these aquas over a little bit more
toward green and me green a little bit
toward aqua just want you can see the
green slider it's effecting a little bit
down here in these kind of shadowy areas
and then yellow you can see if we play
with yellow if we make yellow to green
the pillars behind them almost look
green so I would almost rather just tip
that back toward orange just a little
bit I'll come over here to saturation
because right now there's way too much
saturation in our greens and yellows so
we'll grab the yellow slider we'll just
slide that back we'll grab the green
slider as well we'll slide that back you
can tell that's kind of help
neutralizing some of the craziness in
her jacket all right we still got a
little ways to go
let's try desaturating orange a little
bit you can see what that takes
everything way down if we saturate
Orange that does a lot of damage so
let's just bring it back like it's
something like negative 9 doesn't look
too bad let's see what the Reds do and
we probably should pull the Reds back a
little bit as well I think something
like that is kind of cool and in terms
of aqua blue purple magenta what don't
need to mess with that and then here in
luminance let's boost the Reds a little
bit make them a little bit brighter and
also boost the oranges so you can see
this is almost gonna create this
contrast the effect but we want to be
careful because if you go too far it's
just you can see it gives us this really
unnatural looking light on the
background as well as the highlights on
both of their skin it I don't know it
just it makes it look like a cheap like
high pass contrast e-type effect we
really want to be careful with that so
I'm gonna keep that kind of subtle let's
boost yellow and see what that does
actually kind of like that it's helping
neutralize more of the color here in her
fur jacket that's kind of cool
so we'll crank yellow up a bit until it
looks about I'm just you know kind of
whatever looks good we can mess around a
little bit with green I don't think
there's enough green in there to do much
with I'm gonna come back to red here
let's boost the red a little bit you see
how that's just really filling out his
face and in fact her face as well if I
push that up you know close to 90 maybe
even close to 100 I'll leave it at 90
but I really kind of like the way that
looks so we can shut off you saturation
turn it back on you can see just how
much that that in and of itself changes
the complexion of the image and at this
point I can go back to basic and I can
say you know what let's just bump up the
overall exposure of the whole image just
a little bit you know plus 0.3 looks
good and here I could play with the
highlights I can either pull them up or
even I could pull them down and I could
further push my shadows up if something
like that I think would look good
I can try pushing the whites up but you
can see look I just look what that does
it doesn't crazy amount to the image if
anything we might want to pull the
whites down a little bit and maybe just
push some of our blacks back up but be
very careful because as we push those up
remember our curves are pumping a ton of
light into the shadows so we're just
fine-tune that a little bit I kind of I
kind of dig it next up I'm gonna grab
the radial filter so that's this little
tool here so we can click that and I'll
come up here out here to the middle of
the document and I'll just click and
drag and you can see it looks like we're
doing a lot of damage don't worry about
that I'm just gonna drag this circle
kind of like this over my image you know
sort of looping around them the first
thing I want to do is make sure I take
on inverts because I want I want this
effect to be hitting them and not the
stuff around them you can see part of
what's blowing them out is the fact the
exposures way up so I can just double
click the exposure slider it resets it
everything looks back to normal what we
can do here is maybe we'll boost the
exposure just I mean just a little bit
will lift the shadows just a little bit
well maybe boost the highlights just a
tiny little bit you go back to shadows
here I'm gonna use my arrow keys to get
a little bit more of a fine-tune maybe
I'll add a couple more ticks of clarity
come down here to sharpness add a couple
more ticks of sharpness that looks
pretty good and I might even try messing
with the white balance a little bit if I
make the center a little warmer now I
definitely don't like that if I cooled
down the center just a little bit yeah I
kind of dig the way that looks kind of
changes their skin tone a little bit and
I think a good way if I put more green
in there put more moon yeah I put put a
little bit more magenta in there that
looks pretty cool so I think I'll sit
with that we're gonna add another radial
mask here by selecting radial masks and
just making sure we have new selected
and then I can click and drag anywhere
I'm gonna click and drag kind of a
similar area and drag out a selection
right kind of something sort of like
that maybe I'll move it downward a
little bit something like that in this
case we do want to affect the outside so
all the areas around
masks and all I'm gonna do here is
adjust my exposure I'm just gonna darken
it we're gonna create a little bit of
like a subtle vignette you do not want
this to be SuperDuper strong this you
want more than anything to just be to be
kind of like a subliminal your eyes are
being drawn to the center of the image
and you're not quite sure why we do not
want to go for that old like 1990s early
2000 style harsh a vignette around the
edges just something nice and simple
like that and then I'll come over here
and I'll choose the graduated neutral
density filter and I'm gonna drag up
from the bottom and we're gonna apply a
little darkness down here at the bottom
if you hold down shift it'll drag
straight up for you
and I'm just gonna darken up the bottom
here so this is gonna add a little bit
of like shape to the image that's pretty
cool maybe I can darken up the shadows a
little bit darken up the blacks a little
bit down there not too much can be
really really sensitive there with a
black slider that's gonna that's gonna
get messy if you don't and then I think
we'll we'll pull a little bit of light
down from the top and I know this might
seem counterintuitive because if we just
applied that vignette but it all just
kind of works together so let's pull
this down from the top I'll even do it
on a little bit of an angle and this I
want to be super subtle if I hold down
my alt or option key you can see here
that the effect button changes to reset
we can click that it's just gonna reset
all of our handles here and I'm going to
just boost exposure a little bit so I'm
just gonna tap up with my arrow key once
twice that's pretty cool
and then I'll tap up here with
highlights just boosting them you know I
don't know it's about 15 that's probably
good and we can come down here and we
can use our little switcheroo ski here
to shut our graduated filters off you
can see how we're just kind of flipping
the overall light in the image darkening
up the foreground and adding light as if
light is coming down from the sky to
light them up all right I'm gonna click
on the graduated filter icon to close
that up and let's come down here I don't
I don't need to see the timeline let's
take the little before after so we can
see there's the image we began with and
this is the image we have now so you
know yeah I took a couple minutes to go
in there and do it but we used all kinds
of different techniques here in
Lightroom to attack the shadows and
influence the color and this and that
and the other thing and the overall
environmental lightness or the way the
light was falling in the image to really
change the way this image looks and take
it from what was a pretty cool shot out
of camera to a very cool presentable
kind of finished shot but one thing I
might want to go in and do is use the
adjustment brush and just clean up right
here like especially on her
test looks like there's a little bit too
much green you know what I mean the
skintone doesn't quite look right in
fact let's let's attack that real quick
let's use our adjustment brush you can
grab your if you have a Wacom tablet
grab that once more we can hold down alt
or option and just select the little
reset button the word effect will change
to reset voila and we've got green and a
little bit too much orange in there so
we'll use our temperature intense light
temperature temperature and tint sliders
that's the word I'm searching for and
I'll nudge temperature down about five
and I'll nudge tint up about five and we
could use auto mask but I think we'll be
good here just painting by hand and I'll
just paint over this area it doesn't
look like we're doing much so maybe I'll
change the temperature a little bit more
I'll move it down to like negative 15
maybe down to negative twenty something
like that and I'll push tint up to about
ten all right so just hang with me here
I know it probably looks like I'm doing
all kinds of damage then I'll just hold
down my alt or option key and I will
make sure I just touch up the mask a
little bit again the more time you spend
on it the better obviously it's going to
look so make sure you especially if
you're doing it for a client make sure
you do a nice job form all right now
that's obviously a little bit too much
so we'll come back here to temperature
and we'll push this back to like
negative ten we'll see what that looks
like and then we'll push tint down to
maybe like seven six five yeah I'll push
that down to five and we can just look
at a quick before after
so there's before and there's after
super subtle but absolutely absolutely
makes a difference just help neutralize
her skin tone and keep it from looking
to kind of like radioactive because I
don't think the client would appreciate
that all that much but there's the
before there's the after image that's
how we take a just a straight out of
Camera Raw shot we apply this kind of
rich faded film effect to it you could
throw some grain on top if grain is your
thing as well it's actually it's usually
a good idea to throw a little bit of
grain just as like an overall smoothing
grain to hide edges and hide
imperfections and things like that in
skin or otherwise in your photos but
this is installment number two of raw to
glorious JPEG here in adobe lightroom
hope you guys have enjoyed it for all
the different features camera
calibration to curves and color channels
and sharpening and d haze and the radial
mask for crying out loud that's it get
it got it good nathaniel Dodson
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