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Geometry and Crop Tool

Jared Platt

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103. Geometry and Crop Tool

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Geometry and Crop Tool

the next tool at the very bottom of the um adjustment area is the geometry. Geometry is looking at the image itself and seeing whether or not I'm square on to whatever I'm shooting. So sometimes if you're shooting a city, you can see that there's kind of like a a parallax thing happening where you're closer to the bottom and so the tops of the buildings look smaller because they're further away. So you're seeing perspective happening looking up. Same thing happens anywhere you go, and especially when you come into a shot like the one I'm looking at here, where I have these great windows. But the windows are are kind of against the edge of the frame. And so it's really important that those windows air square with the frame so that the photograph looks really, uh, solid. And so what I want to do is I want to go in, and I want to make sure that I might have been, you know, a little bit too far this way or a little bit too far that way, right or left. Maybe I was down a little bit further.

And so the windows are starting to kind of parallax and get smaller on the top. And so I want to even that out and kind of change my camera position, actually, so that the windows air really square. So the way that I do that is I go into the geometry panel and I'm going to go to the upright options here and in the upright options. I have different options. I could do auto and let it try and fix it itself. Or I could do level and just try and get it toe level the image. I can also tell it to do a vertical which tries to fix the vertical lines. But my favorite is the guided. When I click on guided, I get to use this little tool right here That looks like a cross. So I'm gonna grab this cross. And by the way, if you hover on anything, all these little help tools pop up, so I'm gonna click on that cross, and now I have the option. So I click on that cross and then I have the option to start grabbing lines and I have to verticals and two horizontal is that I can use. So I'm gonna click on the first vertical line. That's important, which is those windows. So that's the first vertical line. And nothing happened because there's not enough information yet. The second vertical line that matters to me, it could be these windows or even better. It could be this staircase right here that the little girl is on there. So what's just happened is it squared up both the staircase and the windows with the bottom and top of the frame. But I actually think that maybe that staircase is a little bit skewed. So instead I'm gonna come up and do the windows instead and notice that it kind of went wonky for a second boom There. So now are our windows and are the top of our building are completely square now. What happened was when I did that, I went wonky on me. I ended up losing the edge of my frame here, so I lost the windows. So let me just quickly delete this and start over so that we have let's go into our crop tool because it crops, see what it did. It cropped everything out. So I'm gonna go back and start over again because I really kind of messed that one up. All right, so and there's the crop tool. Um, okay, so now I'm gonna go back and click on that little cross. I'm gonna try that again. I'm gonna start at the top. There we go. So now hasn't done anything because they're not enough information. And now I'm gonna grab on the bottom window, and I'm just going to go across that one and see now both the window edges, top and bottom are square with the top and bottom of my frame. So now I'm gonna do the same thing with the side windows. So I'm just going to click on the side of the window here and this, do this and then this side of the window here and do that. So now it's squared up that window with the right and left frame. So I have a perfectly perpendicular and ah ah, parallel window edges with my frame edges. So it's really quite nice. Now this paired with if you go into the optics and and remove of the lens correction issues, so click on lens correction, and it kind of gets rid of the Boeing of things and I want to keep the lensman yet ing in there. That looks really quite nice. And then we just need to crop it. So that's the next tool we need to look at. So in the crop tool, which is right below the edit tool, click on crop and you'll find the crop tool. And then I'm just gonna crop out that side so that I'm equal distant with those windows there. And ah, And by the way, if I want to in the crop tool, um, I can keep the original aspect ratio. Or I can say I want this to be a two by three or four by six aspect ratio. And then when I grab it and drag it it, it increases and decreases all equally so that it's it maintains that aspect ratio. So I'm gonna just shift click. I'm just gonna click up here, drag this around until I get the exact crop that I want and done, and I like that image a lot. So that's the crop tool

Class Description

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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.

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Adobe Lightroom Mobile Cloud

Adobe Lightroom Image Pipeline System

Workflow in Adobe Lightroom

BW Preset Collection

Color Art Pro Profiles

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I am truly a recreational novice in the photography world and this video is fantastic. Photography has become a very technical world both on the camera side as well as post production. Jared has great teaching skills and sure makes it look very simple. I would recommend this video for those starting out in Lightroom as this program can be overwhelming and has a daunting amount of information. I would like to know if there is a resource of location of contact to ask a question or two for clarifications as a viewer goes through the course. For example, when making a new collection and if you choose the option of making this new collection a target collection, what happens if you then make another new collection and select that new collection to be a target collection? If you click on B to add a photo to a target collection and you made two target collections then where does this virtual selection go, ie into which target collection? Thanks Ira irichterma@aol.com

Dan Clarke

This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.

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).

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Geometry and Crop Tool

Lesson Info

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