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Hi there, Barry Callister for Barry Callister Photography, giving you hints,
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hit that subscribe button. Now, it's been a while since I did a Lightroom tutorial
so I thought I'd take you through just a basic edit that I will do on an image
I'm going to upload to Facebook or Instagram or something like that. So this
is the base...just a starting point that I'll use and I'll move on from there if
the image needs something more. So let's get right into it. Make sure you hang
around to the end of the video because I'm gonna give you three awesome
keyboard shortcuts that are going to make your workflow so much faster so
let's jump into this basic edit in Lightroom. Go!
Alright so we're starting here in the Library
module. I'm gonna edit this photo here of these rocks for
this tutorial. So we'll just click Develop to open that up in the Develop
Module. Now the first thing I will do is come over to the right-hand side here
and click on Lens Corrections and make sure that both of those are clicked.
I normally apply Lens Corrections on import but sometimes earlier on in
Lightroom I didn't do that so I always check that that is done. If you want to
know how to apply a preset on import in Lightroom I have a video about that I've
linked that up in the right-hand corner of the screen now, so go there if you
want to. We'll just have a look here, I'll show you where abouts you find that. So
you click on File...Import Photos and Video. If you go over here to Apply During
Import your Lens Corrections...that's how I've got it set up in there is for lens
corrections to be applied during import. So watch that video to learn how to do that!
The next thing I will do is come down to
Camera Calibration. It'll be Adobe Standard by default. So I click on that
generally and I will select camera standard, that looks good for this image.
If it doesn't look good, just choose another option. It's...this is all about
what looks good really for this. So I don't play with any of those other
sliders there because this is just a basic edit so we want to stick to the basics.
Then I'll go up to my Basic Panel and you want to watch your histogram here.
If you're not using your histogram in Lightroom or on your camera you really
should be. Your histogram gives you a true picture of the exposure of your
image. You can't trust your eyes because...or...your monitor and your LCD screen on
your camera will lie to you because different lighting conditions will make
images look brighter or darker than they actually are. The histogram gives you a
true representation of the exposure of your image. So if you use your mouse here
and you hover over the histogram, you can see on the right hand side is the
whites, then you've got your highlights in that section, the mid section is your
exposure or your mid-tones, shadows, and blacks over on the left hand side.
And you can see these two arrows here, this is your shadow clipping, and this is your
highlight clipping. If you've overexposed or underexposed any part of your
photograph - those will be lit up. So I'll just quickly...if I crank the highlights
up here, and just crank up the exposure, you'll see now there this is showing me
that I've clipped those areas, and those areas are now overexposed, and there's no
detail in there. So you want to watch that. Just...if you need more information
about how to use a histogram, there's loads of videos on YouTube, check
out those, or I'm going to do one soon - so watch out for that. So the next thing I
will do, because this image looks to be pretty well exposed, I will go down to my
white values. This is... this is to set the white point. If you
move your mouse over the numerical value there on the white slider, hold Alt and
click your mouse and drag to the right until you see some dots come in. Now you
want to make sure you back it off then until there are no overexposed or
clipped parts there, so that seems to be at about 59, so I'll leave that there.
Then you want to do the same with your black slider. Hold Alt, click the numbers
and then drag it down until you see some blacks come in, that's about there so
that's good. If you want to at any stage see the results of your edit you can
click your backslash key for the before view, and then after. So you can see, just
from doing that alone, this image is just popped now, there's a lot more
color in it, there's a lot more contrast, it's really quite good. Now this does
show that we're clipping the blacks here, and if I just tell Lightroom to show
that to me by clicking that arrow there, you can see that's in these dark
sections, these shadowy sections which I'm not really too concerned about
because we don't really need detail in there at all. So I'm not going to worry
about that. The next thing I will do is play around with my shadows and
highlights sliders. If I want to bring up the shadows a bit more, which I really
...I'm really not too concerned about with this image. I want it to have, I want it to be
a bit gritty and grainy, kind of have a very contrasty look, so I'm not gonna...
And the highlights, I'm probably going to leave alone there too.
The next thing that I will do is I will maybe play with the contrast slider and
see if it looks good with a bit more contrast or a bit less. Now a lot of the
time when you doing this you want to sort of take it to the point where it
looks overdone and then back it off, because you'll always overdo it,
pretty much. And seeing over-edited images on Facebook or Instagram is never
fun for me. So take it to where you think it looks great, and then back it off a
little bit. I'm gonna leave the contrast at about 26 there, I think that looks
good. And if you want to see the results of...before and after of the of the step
that you just did. Just go over here to your History panel and click back before
your contrast. So this is before my contrast, this is after. So that's added a
bit of pop there, I kind of like that. I'll then come down to the clarity
slider. Maybe add a bit of clarity. Now you can see there that is way too
much. If that was the look I was going for, awesome. But it's not, so I'm gonna
back that right off to about will say 17 looks good. Should check it
before that after so you see it's giving this rock here a lot more detail and
grittiness, I kind of like that. I rarely play with my vibrance or saturation
sliders unless I really, really want the image to pop a lot more, like...I don't..
See, you can see it just...I don't like what it does to the image, it makes it look
unnatural and not quite real. So I might up that about seven. Saturation again is
a slider you have to be really careful with. Don't over-do it...you know. I rarely
use a value above 7 with saturation. Just have a look what that looks before...after
That's giving it a nice bit of color there. Now on rare occasions, I will play
with the tone curve. I don't use it an awful lot...but let's have a look today
and we'll see what we can do. The highlights we can...might bring that up a
little bit just to...
give it a bit brightness there. The lights...play with a little bit there. You can do
this by clicking and dragging the graph here but I don't do that
I'm not going to do that today anyway. So the lights there...the darks...not really liking
what that's doing. Shadows...not liking what that's doing either. The darks, maybe
down a little bit there. You can always click this switch here on the
left hand side of the panel, that'll turn off that particular effect. You can see
the results of it there too so, that looks kind of good.
So...backslash key, see what it was like before and now - it's looking fairly good. I'm not
going to play with the HSL sliders at all - that's your color. I'm not going to
do split toning. But I will do detail. Now, if you want to...you normally want to set
this for a section of your image that's got...that is in focus, first of all and
has a bit of grain to it. So like, this rock up here perhaps might be a good
idea, so I'll hit this little crosshairs thing here and I'll...that one? We'll do that one or?...
No that's not really in focus, let's choose another bit here. Maybe this bit like here will be good
that's got a nice defined edge in that hole in the rock there that'll be good for
our sharpening stuff. So with sharpening, I'll generally set the radius
to 1.4. And then what you can do with the masking slider here is hold alt and
click the slider, drag it across and you'll see parts of it are turning black.
Anything that's white will...the sharpening will be applied to, anything
that's black will not be sharpened. So I don't really want to sharpen these areas
in here between the rocks, so we'll just keep that up to about there,
that's good. And then you can watch your little thumbnail here and crank up your
sharpening. It's always a good idea as well to have your image at 1:1 to
do this, and have it on the same area sort of as your thumbnail over here.
So you can see if you're starting to get artifacts or any...you know, amount of noise.
See, there I've over-done it, so you don't go there. I am guilty of over-sharpening my images a
lot. So I think about 30 on this is good, so I'll turn that off and see what it's
done. That's very subtle, I might bump it up about...more...45 there, that's good.
Now that has created also a lot of noise as well, so we'll grab the luminance
slider here in our noise reduction and pump that up there a little bit.
There's a bit of color noise I'm seeing in there too. Your color noise is very visible if
you go up to about 4:1 or 8:1, or anything higher than that. So you can
see if I grab my color noise slider here and I back it right off, you can see all
these blues, and purples, and stuff, and yellows, and greens coming in here. So you
just want to dial that up until...that all goes away. You can double click it to
reset it back to the default value there too. So that's kind of good. Just look at
it before and after again - that's looking pretty good
So....I think we're all good. Now that's pretty much all I'll do to an image
generally. Sometimes, occasionally I'll use the effects panel to apply a vignette,
just to the corners. But with this image, I don't really think we need it. So you
can see there, if you slide to the left you get black edges coming in on your
photo, you slide to the right, you'll get white edges, your white vignette. I always
like a black vinette, I'm not too fond of white ones. So that does look kind of
good. If I was trying to bring people's attention to these rocks here, to these
two big rocks...or these rocks in the center, this group of four here, I
would probably apply a vignette - but I'm not in this particular occasion so I
won't use a vignette. And that is pretty much it for what I do for a basic edit.
That is where I'll leave it. You can see the before and after here, like so.
It's really popping now there's..got a lot of color, it's got vibrance, it's got
contrast, it's much just a much better image and it's gonna look so much better
on a cushion! So now we come to the three keyboard shortcuts that I promised
you. The first one of which is to first of all bring your image in from the
library module. So let's say we're in the library module here and you wanted to
edit this image. You click D on your keyboard, that'll shoot you straight into
the develop module real fast and you can start editing your image. While you're in
the develop module, if you want to see your before and after, not just like we
were doing with the backslash key but side-by-side, hit the Y key. And you can
see there it'll give you a before and after, side-by-side view of what your
image is looking like. And if you hit Y again it takes you back to full view
there. And this last keyboard shortcut, super-exciting, this is really good.
A lot of the time you want to zoom in 1:1 to your image, to check focus, or
look for dust spots on your sensor, or things like that. Now what you can
do is click and hold the spacebar and you'll see your cursor changes into a
hand symbol, and you can then click and drag, and look around your image at
1:1. Now this'll, this is working at 1:1 here because I was...I had
1:1 selected last time. If I'd done 4:1, it would take me back
see, back to 4:1. So you want to choose 1:1 there and it...it's
excellent. Hitting the spacebar...and you can let go of the spacebar and just pan..
just move around there with your hand tool, and it's just fantastic. And you can
check the...your image out at 1:, and hit the spacebar again and you're back
to full view there.....Excellent.
There you have it! That is your basic edit in
Lightroom. If you have any questions for me about anything you saw me doing the
video today, please pop them in the comments below, I'd be glad to answer your
questions. Make sure, before you leave you hit that like button and smash that
subscribe button! I'm Barry Callister for Barry Callister
Photography. Get out there, take some wicked shots, and I will see you soon
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