Adobe Lightroom 2020: The Ultimate Guide Bootcamp
Lesson 107 of 116
Brush Tool
Adobe Lightroom 2020: The Ultimate Guide Bootcamp
Lesson 107 of 116
Brush Tool
Lesson Info
Brush Tool
The next tool that we want to talk about is the brush tool, and the brush tool could be used for a lot of different things that could be used for burning and dodging. And it can also be used for, like, skin softening and things like that. The key is to just learn how to use the brush. So we're gonna click on the brush tool itself and inside the brush tool you have all of these controls so you can bring the exposure down and increase the size of the brush using the bracket keys. And I could just burn and dodge to my heart's content. Here on the outside, I can also turn the eraser on. So if I accidentally hit the hat or something like that, I can erase what I've just painted in, whatever burning I've done. And then I can create another brush. So see that little pin right there in the middle of the grass is telling us that this is one effect that I've created. But if I click on this little plus button right here, right there, I can create a new brush. So when I click on that new brush the...
n I can come in here and say, Well, I don't want to do the exposure on this one. I want to do the highlights and I'm going to just kind of bring in the highlights of her hat. And then in addition to that, I'm gonna create another brush. And this time, instead of highlights, I'm actually going to come down to texture and bring down the texture quite a bit. And I'm gonna paint in a negative texture on her skin. And I'm not being super accurate about it because I can always come back in afterwards. If I click on that, then I can erase that texture back out. So I'm just gonna I feel like this. By the way, if I want to see the mask overlay, I can always go to view. I can go to ah, overlay right here, show overlay. And then I can show the mask. So then I can erase out the mask and then whatever I want to do with that mask again, we can go to view tools. Ah, overlay and turn off the mask. And now that mask is just her skin. And I could go in and play around with the texture and the clarity. Aiken brighten it up a little bit. I can do anything I want to her skin, and then I can always come in later and erase out. You know, if it's, it's affecting her eyes. We can pull out the eyes by erasing those. We can erase off the lips and any hair, and that's how you use the brush tool to effect a photograph. And remember, you can use it for burning. You can use it for dodging. You can use it for warming up the sky or making a sky more blue or first softening skin. So get get used to the brush tool because it will become your best friend when it comes to working with people you half the time you don't need to go photo shop because of the brush tool. It's so good
Class Description
AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
- Efficiently cull and retouch photographs
- Manage your files to enable seamless and immediate recall
- Get your computer and software to run faster
- Create impressive photo books and slideshows
- Take advantage of global adjustments
- Improve your mobile workflow with both your iPhone and iPad
- Deliver and share your images directly from Lightroom
ABOUT JARED’S CLASS:
Adobe® Lightroom® is the industry standard for post-production workflow and in Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide, you’ll learn Jared Platt’s gold standard for retouching and managing files quickly and efficiently.
Jared will show the ins and outs of Lightroom Classic, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Desktop. He’ll demystify the difference between each and demonstrate when to use each one for maximum output.
Jared will share tips on improving every phase of your workflow – from shooting to archiving. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the latest Lightroom tools and features and become faster and more skilled at adjusting your images.
WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:
- Beginner, intermediate, and advanced users of Adobe Lightroom
- Those who want to gain confidence in Adobe Lightroom and learn new features to help edit photos
- Students who’d like to take ordinary images and make them look extraordinary with some image editing or Lightroom fixes
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Lightroom Classic 9.2
Adobe Lightroom Desktop 3.2
Adobe Lightroom Mobile 5.2
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Jared Platt is a professional wedding and lifestyle photographer from Phoenix, Arizona. Jared holds a Masters of Fine Arts in the Photographic Studies and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from Arizona State University and has been a professional photographer and college educator for the past 12 years and has been a speaking, debating and lecturing for the past 17 years. His attention to detail and craft make him a demanding photography instructor. Jared has lectured at major trade shows and photo conferences as well as at universities around the world on the subject of photography as well as workflow. Currently, Jared is traveling the United States and Canada teaching and lecturing on photography and post production workflow. Join him online for monthly "Office Hours" at www.jaredplattworkshops.com.
Lessons
- Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
- Hard Drives
- File Organization
- 30,000 Foot View of Workflow
- Importing into Lightroom
- Building Previews
- Collections and Publish Services
- Keywords
- Hardware for Lightroom
- Searching for Images
- Selecting Images
- Organizing Images
- Collecting Images for Use
- Develop Module Overview
- Profiles
- Basic Adjustments
- Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
- Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
- Tone Curve
- HSL
- Split Tone
- Lens Corrections
- Details
- Transform Tool
- Effects Panel
- Synchronizing for Faster Editing
- Spot Tool
- Skin Softening and Brush Work
- Range Masking
- Dodge and Burn
- Working with Specific Colors
- Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
- Making Presets
- Preparing Image in Lightroom
- Content Aware Fill
- Skin Repair
- Skin Smoothing
- Expanding a Canvas
- Liquify
- Layers and Composite Images
- Sharing via Web
- Exporting Files
- Sharing with Slideshows
- Archiving Photos and Catalogs
- Designing
- Making Prints
- Color Management and Profiles
- Archiving Photos and Catalogs
- Using Cloud Storage
- Adding Images to your Portfolio
- Collecting for Your Portfolio
- Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
- Sharing to Instagram
- HDR
- Panorama
- HDR Panorama
- Making Presets
- Creating Profiles
- Maps
- Setup for Tethered Shooting
- Sharing with the Client
- Watched Folder Process
- Second Monitor and iPad
- Backup at the Camera
- Gnar Box Disk Backup
- iPhone and iPad Review
- Importing to Lightroom on iPad
- Cloud Backup
- Adjust, Edit, and Organize
- Using Lightroom Between Devices
- Lightroom Desktop
- Removing Images from the Cloud
- Profiles
- Light
- Color
- Effects
- Details
- Optics
- Geometry
- Crop
- Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
- Local Adjustments
- Healing Tool
- Synchronizing Edits
- Editing in Photoshop
- Finding Images
- Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
- Posting Images to Social Media
- Overview of Lightroom Desktop
- The Workflow Overview
- Organizing Images
- Albums and Shared Albums
- Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
- Importing and Selecting Images
- HDR and Panoramics
- Light
- Profiles
- Tone Curves
- Color
- Effects
- Details
- Optics
- Geometry and Crop Tool
- Sync Settings
- Making and Adding Presets
- Healing Brush
- Brush Tool
- Gradient Tool
- Edit in Photoshop
- Finding Images with Sensei
- Sharing Albums on the Web
- Print through Photoshop
- Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
- Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
- Archiving Images for Storage
- Review of the Workflow
Reviews
Hannah
Thorough but very easy to follow. I've noticed a significant improvement in my work since starting this course a couple weeks ago, and I'm also spending noticeably less time editing my photos. I appreciate that it's up-to-date as of October, 2020, so the info is current (I wish CL would take down some of the older courses, since software changes make some of them obsolete).