Lesson Info

Crop

the last thing that we do to a photograph, or maybe the first thing that we do to a photograph based on, uh, just kind of a global thing that we're doing two photographs is the crop itself and whether or not we do it at the beginning or whether we do it at the end, it's still a very important part of your photograph because every image has four frame edges and what you do with him is everything. And so there is a tool here that's fully committed to the crop. It's just it's not up here. It's right here. So I'm gonna click on that crop tool and inside the crop tool, you have the options for different aspect ratios. So three by two is kind of a normal sized nowadays. But if you happen to be working on a or you want a four by five, uh, style crop, you would click here, Um, which would be really appropriate for this photo because this guy is actually using an old style four by five camera. So I think I'll stick with the four by five. I think that's kind of funny, Um, but the crop means ever...

ything. And so as I'm negotiating crop Aiken Group dragged the crop around like this, I can drag the center of the crop, or I mean, the edges of the crop. If I grab a side of a crop, it starts to crop. Both sides independent are together. Um, at the same time, same thing with the bottom. Um, so I'm gonna negotiate this crop based on my edges. If I want to adjust the crop kind of angle it, then I'm going to sit outside of this and I don't have to grab onto this control I can grab over here anywhere outside the crop allows me to angle it. And it also has these guidelines. As soon as I click on it to to move, it has guidelines that help me kind of negotiate so that I get this edge right here of this building. I'm lining it up with those grid lines inside of the crop tool. Um and then I also have the ability to flip the crop. I have the ability to flip the actual image itself, which would be a bad idea, because there's actual text information in there. But if you didn't have texting information in there. It's certainly capable of flipping your image either way. Um, and then there's the straighten option. And so in this case, I'm just gonna kind of crop to here and hit done, And then I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna find another image. So we're just gonna go looking for an image here that's of a landscape so any landscape will do. But I want one that has a specific or there we go. Now let's actually let's look at this all my horizons. Air two straight. I'll bet you they're not actually straight. They just already been cropped. Um, let's see if this one's already been cropped. Nope, it hasn't. But if I want to make sure that I have a perfectly straight horizon, I can use this straightened tool. Simply click on that straightened tool and it straightens it, and it didn't have to do much, but it just automatically looks for her. Rise in line so you can do that again. You can. You can follow it like this, But if you're here and you want to straighten it, just click. Straighten and boom. It finds the horizon line, and it allows you to quickly straighten your image. And then from there on out, if you just grab the edges, you can re negotiate the crop. But again, everything hinges around the crop. The crop is so important, so I'm always looking to see what am I creating in a photograph based on. See how this window down here is is playing with the edge of the crop, So I'm really looking to give myself ah, shapes over in the left hand bottom corner. There's a nice little triangle, so the crop does all of that, and it's really important to pay attention to your crops. So don't forget the crop tool click done, and now you're images cropped and ready to be adjusted further inside of your, um, local adjustment tools.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
2. Hard Drives
3. File Organization
4. 30,000 Foot View of Workflow
5. Importing into Lightroom
6. Building Previews
7. Collections and Publish Services
8. Keywords
9. Hardware for Lightroom
10. Searching for Images
11. Selecting Images
12. Organizing Images
13. Collecting Images for Use
14. Develop Module Overview
15. Profiles
16. Basic Adjustments
17. Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
18. Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
19. Tone Curve
20. HSL
21. Split Tone
22. Lens Corrections
23. Details
24. Transform Tool
25. Effects Panel
26. Synchronizing for Faster Editing
27. Spot Tool
28. Skin Softening and Brush Work
29. Range Masking
30. Dodge and Burn
31. Working with Specific Colors
32. Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
33. Making Presets
34. Preparing Image in Lightroom
35. Content Aware Fill
36. Skin Repair
37. Skin Smoothing
38. Expanding a Canvas
39. Liquify
40. Layers and Composite Images
41. Sharing via Web
42. Exporting Files
43. Sharing with Slideshows
44. Archiving Photos and Catalogs
45. Designing
46. Making Prints
47. Color Management and Profiles
48. Archiving Photos and Catalogs
49. Using Cloud Storage
50. Adding Images to your Portfolio
51. Collecting for Your Portfolio
52. Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
53. Sharing to Instagram
54. HDR
55. Panorama
56. HDR Panorama
57. Making Presets
58. Creating Profiles
59. Maps
60. Setup for Tethered Shooting
61. Sharing with the Client
62. Watched Folder Process
63. Second Monitor and iPad
64. Backup at the Camera
65. Gnar Box Disk Backup
66. iPhone and iPad Review
67. Importing to Lightroom on iPad
68. Cloud Backup
69. Adjust, Edit, and Organize
70. Using Lightroom Between Devices
71. Lightroom Desktop
72. Removing Images from the Cloud
73. Profiles
74. Light
75. Color
76. Effects
77. Details
78. Optics
79. Geometry
80. Crop
81. Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
82. Local Adjustments
83. Healing Tool
84. Synchronizing Edits
85. Editing in Photoshop
86. Finding Images
87. Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
88. Posting Images to Social Media
89. Overview of Lightroom Desktop
90. The Workflow Overview
91. Organizing Images
92. Albums and Shared Albums
93. Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
94. Importing and Selecting Images
95. HDR and Panoramics
96. Light
97. Profiles
98. Tone Curves
99. Color
100. Effects
101. Details
102. Optics
103. Geometry and Crop Tool
104. Sync Settings
105. Making and Adding Presets
106. Healing Brush
107. Brush Tool
108. Gradient Tool
109. Edit in Photoshop
110. Finding Images with Sensei
111. Sharing Albums on the Web
112. Print through Photoshop
113. Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
114. Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
115. Archiving Images for Storage
116. Review of the Workflow