Preparing Image in Lightroom
Lesson 34 from: Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide BootcampJared Platt
Preparing Image in Lightroom
Lesson 34 from: Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide BootcampJared Platt
Lessons
Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic
19:42 2Hard Drives
08:06 3File Organization
08:31 430,000 Foot View of Workflow
05:36 5Importing into Lightroom
04:10 6Building Previews
07:14 7Collections and Publish Services
05:11 8Keywords
06:27Hardware for Lightroom
06:08 10Searching for Images
07:51 11Selecting Images
14:15 12Organizing Images
04:02 13Collecting Images for Use
14:56 14Develop Module Overview
10:15 15Profiles
11:34 16Basic Adjustments
11:45 17Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze
05:31 18Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance
02:40 19Tone Curve
09:26 20HSL
04:48 21Split Tone
08:19 22Lens Corrections
08:32 23Details
09:34 24Transform Tool
05:52 25Effects Panel
10:00 26Synchronizing for Faster Editing
07:40 27Spot Tool
17:51 28Skin Softening and Brush Work
07:00 29Range Masking
13:28 30Dodge and Burn
17:36 31Working with Specific Colors
08:30 32Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters
11:22 33Making Presets
13:24 34Preparing Image in Lightroom
09:51 35Content Aware Fill
11:14 36Skin Repair
02:44 37Skin Smoothing
14:39 38Expanding a Canvas
04:30 39Liquify
10:22 40Layers and Composite Images
12:54 41Sharing via Web
17:52 42Exporting Files
10:47 43Sharing with Slideshows
08:00 44Archiving Photos and Catalogs
19:54 45Designing
13:35 46Making Prints
11:27 47Color Management and Profiles
13:00 48Archiving Photos and Catalogs
11:31 49Using Cloud Storage
04:09 50Adding Images to your Portfolio
09:23 51Collecting for Your Portfolio
18:03 52Publishing Unique Websites Per Project
19:48 53Sharing to Instagram
07:06 54HDR
15:32 55Panorama
06:41 56HDR Panorama
09:54 57Making Presets
15:39 58Creating Profiles
18:09 59Maps
07:08 60Setup for Tethered Shooting
23:21 61Sharing with the Client
05:42 62Watched Folder Process
07:04 63Second Monitor and iPad
06:09 64Backup at the Camera
03:50 65Gnar Box Disk Backup
06:45 66iPhone and iPad Review
12:52 67Importing to Lightroom on iPad
02:59 68Cloud Backup
04:39 69Adjust, Edit, and Organize
07:46 70Using Lightroom Between Devices
11:27 71Lightroom Desktop
05:27 72Removing Images from the Cloud
10:49 73Profiles
09:34 74Light
04:34 75Color
05:36 76Effects
15:22 77Details
08:33 78Optics
03:49 79Geometry
04:12 80Crop
04:39 81Adding and Using Presets and Profiles
13:41 82Local Adjustments
15:40 83Healing Tool
03:29 84Synchronizing Edits
04:57 85Editing in Photoshop
08:54 86Finding Images
07:09 87Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web
09:18 88Posting Images to Social Media
14:01 89Overview of Lightroom Desktop
07:35 90The Workflow Overview
10:08 91Organizing Images
05:10 92Albums and Shared Albums
18:21 93Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview
04:36 94Importing and Selecting Images
09:23 95HDR and Panoramics
22:44 96Light
07:47 97Profiles
07:23 98Tone Curves
02:57 99Color
08:35 100Effects
17:01 101Details
12:43 102Optics
04:05 103Geometry and Crop Tool
06:01 104Sync Settings
02:40 105Making and Adding Presets
03:48 106Healing Brush
02:21 107Brush Tool
03:14 108Gradient Tool
04:16 109Edit in Photoshop
02:53 110Finding Images with Sensei
06:32 111Sharing Albums on the Web
04:57 112Print through Photoshop
02:09 113Exporting Images to Files or Web Services
04:36 114Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices
05:24 115Archiving Images for Storage
09:55 116Review of the Workflow
07:20Lesson Info
Preparing Image in Lightroom
So there are times when light room is not going to get you as far as you need to go because there's more power in editing and Photoshopped because there's just more tools, more selection capabilities, layering those kind of things. And so, um, I wanted to go over the workflow of going to photo shop first, and that's really important. So the first rule is this. Go a Sfar, as you possibly can go inside of light room first because it's a nondestructive editor. So you're editing in the raw special. Obviously, you need to be working in raw imagery in order to have that non destructive capability. But if you're shooting raw imagery and you're working inside of light room, you are non destructive, and so you're gonna have a better quality file if you can take it as far as you can go. So don't I don't think I'm gonna go to photo shop anyway. And so I'll just leave this image kind of finished and then start burning and dodging inside a photo shop because once you're in photo shop you're actuall...
y destroying the pixels. You're moving them around, and you just don't have the raw capability that you had back in light room. So do your burning and dodging. Do your brightening. Do your recovering highlights all that kind of stuff as far as you can go inside of light room. Once you are done in light room and you can't go any further, then you can go to photo shop and there's going to be what we call a round trip, and we're going to show you how to round trip to photo shop while we're showing you a couple really cool tools that you can use quickly inside a photo shop. And this is definitely not a photo shop class. This is a light room class, how to use it with photo shop for the things that you really need to do in photo shop. So I'm really interested in the things that I can't do in light room or that a really clunky and light room, and I want to go to photo shop to get something done quicker and maybe better. So the first thing that comes to mind is sometimes I'm in an image like this, which I really love this image. But I don't necessarily like all of these extra people here. I want this guy because I think he's interesting is a shadow. But I don't want any of these people here, and so I can go in with with light room and and use in the develop module. I can actually go into the spot tool and with the spot tool, I can zoom in and I can remove people from this image. But it's a little bit dicey is toe whether it's actually gonna work, because I can't get that guy. And so then I start to get these odd little lines and shadows and stuff like that. So the computation inside of light room for getting rid of major things, especially when there's a lot of detail around them, is a little bit dicey. So I'm I'm going to go to photo shop in order to get better power in my editing. But before I go there, I'm going to quickly do a little bit more adjustment on this file. So have exactly the way I want it to be, So I'm just gonna brighten it up just a tad, and then I'm gonna take the shadows up because those trees need a little bit more information in him. Actually, you know what I see When I do this, I'm getting too much brightness in the cloud. So I want to keep it that way, and I will actually do a little burning and dodging here inside the trees just with my brush tool. So I'm gonna take the shadows up, and then I'm just gonna come in here and paint in. My flow needs to be a little bit higher. I'm gonna just paint in on these trees so I get a little bit more information in the trees and because I have the capability to range masking here in light room, which I don't have that capability inside of Photoshopped, not as easily. And so I'm going to go in and do a range mask for a color. And Onley have it do green. So that way, if you look at the mask, you can see that them once. I once I give it a color, see how it masks out the sky so I don't spill into the sky. It's really easy to get really specific and very, very accurate inside of light room on your burning and dodging. So I would always do my burning and dodging here inside of light room first. And now that I have that all the way I want it, Um, and I'm gonna add just a little bit more texture, a little bit more clarity, and now I can actually bring that exposure back down because my trees air nice and bright, and I like that kind of dark moodiness of the photograph. So now that I'm ready to go, I'm going to. There's two different ways to do this. You can hit shift Command E, and that's export. So this is if you need to. Let's say you're doing a album for a client, and you need to send out 30 images Toe Photoshopped, because you're going to go on do some major retouching on all of these images. What you would do is you would export the images, and you would export them as photo shop. So in the export dialog box, you would go and create Photoshopped documents. 16 bit pro photo RGB. Now there's a lot of people who tell you Oh, just exported J Peg because it's smaller and it's faster and it's easier to edit and all that kind of stuff, but a J peg is not a quality file. J pegs should be considered print on Lee files. I would never edit a J pick. There's just not enough bit depth in it, so I want to keep it as close to raws possible. So I would do a a photoshopped document. Some people like tiffs. You could do it if Pro Photo RGB has the most color depth of any of those color spaces. So I'm going to choose that and then 16 bit that way, I have the most data I can possibly have. So when I'm doing that destructive editing and I'm moving those pixels around, they're not going to deteriorate as fast. So once I have that at the very top, I'm gonna add it back to this catalogue, and I'm gonna tell it to put it in the same folder is the original, and I'm gonna ask it to stack it with the original image putting the original below are above. I want that to be above the original. So now I'm gonna have a stack, and I can just simply export this file. And when I do that, it's going toe export the file and I'm doing it now. So it's exporting the file. And once it's done exporting this PSD, it's going to then add it back into the catalogue and it's gonna put it in a stack above the original so that I will always be looking at the original. So, um, if I look, if I right, click this and show it in the library now I have a PSD right here that's over the top of the original image. So I've got. And this is another tiff that I've edited already. So here's the PSD, and here's the raw and they look exactly the same because we haven't done anything to the PSD yet. So, um, that's one way to accomplish a round trip, so you can You can leave the room and you can export as many files is you need to edit and then they're going to come back in the light room. Now the reason that we put them back in light room is because light room is our digital hub. It's the place where all of our images should cyst sit and rest and wait for us so that we can find him again, Um, so I want to open it from light room and And to do that, I would just simply right click it and say, Edit in photo shop, or you can just hit Command E. And when you hit command E, it's gonna ask you whether you want to edit the original, whether you want to edit a copy or if you've done some adjustments over the top of of a Photoshopped document cause you can do that, you can go into the develop module after you've made a PSD. And that image also has the ability to be edited as well, although at that point you're now being destructive because it's not a raw image. So I have the ability to right click this edit in photo shop, and I can choose whether I want to include the adjustments I've made on top of the photograph, whether one edit a copy of it. So I make a duplicate or edit the original, so that's one way to do it. And the only the only reason you would ever do it that way is if you needed to do a whole bunch of them. Um, but if you are going to be editing just the one, um So I'm gonna go back here to my my collection. If you're just gonna be editing one image, this is the one image you want to edit. All you need to do is go to the raw image and click command E. And it's going to open it in Photoshop. So it's going it right now. It's preparing it to be edited. It made a copy, set it right next to the original, and now it opened it in photo shop so that we can edit that image.
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Ratings and Reviews
Ira Richterman
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.
catherine Haggerty
Loved this class. As a beginner it really gives me working knowledge to use LR confidently. This class is older, so a few times I really had to stop and figure out how it worked in the newest version of LR... but all in all this class was amazing!