Lesson Info

Transform Tool

this one of my favorite tools, One of my very, very favorite tools. Um, and that is the transform tool. So the transform tool is super useful for people who are architectural photographers. Um, I'm gonna Okay, so this is what the image looks like on its own. And and if I turn this back on, you can see the change. So there's before there's after before, after this is something Several years ago, you had to go to photo shop to fix, but now it's inside a light room resident, and it's is such I find myself transforming and adjusting images to really square the edges up to make them even that much more better. And I It's fantastic. Like when you really pay attention to this, the frame edge and the edges inside the photograph and square them up and make them really nice and tight. It it makes the photograph what it is. I couldn't live without the transform tool now, but let me show you how it works, So I'm gonna I'm gonna reset the upright tool in a case like this. There are several ways to ...

do it, and I'll be honest with you. I I almost never use any tool except for the guided upright so you can do vertical level auto. So if you'd say level, it's just gonna try and level the photograph. If you say vertical, it's going to see vertical lines and try and make them square with the frame edge. If you say full, it's gonna try and square everything up in a lot of times full really screws up. Um, an auto is just auto is meant for you. Turn it on auto, so that if you ever included in a preset, just automatically tries to interpret and decide which one is the best tool to use. But what I'm going to do is guided because it's the most useful. I click on guided, and when I click on Guided that there's a little little hash tag right here, and when you click on it, it gives you a little, um, cursor with that weird hash tag on it. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go up here, and I need to find all of the vertical and horizontal horizontal lines that matter. So in this case, the vertical lines air these two pillars right next to me. So I'm gonna click on here, and I'm gonna drag down on this vertical line here and nothing happens because I only have one vertical line I need to have actually two vertical lines to do anything. So I'm gonna click on this one here and dragged down to here. See there and now you saw that they just straightened. So it it transformed the image to make sure that those two pillars are directly straight up and down. Now, I need to find a horizontal line that is critical to the success of the image, Not just any horizontal line. Usually you want to choose horizontal lines that are close to the frame edge. That's kind of the way you choose thes. And so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna choose this one way back here. That's a good horizontal like that is your horizon line. And so I'm gonna go and click on this floor, this baseboard there and it just shifted a little bit. It wasn't quite off, but a little bit and so But it maintained the vertical lines, and now it just morphed the image. So that now there's a straight horizontal line, and then the last thing I want to do If I really want to make this image perfect, I can then come up here into this area. And I could say I want this line here, this this swoop to be straight at the corners. And so I'm going to just grab each corner there and then I'm gonna come over to this corner here and they're So now I know that that is an absolutely symmetrical, perfect example of an architectural shot. It's perfect. And then I've got the lady here, which is my wife, Um, and she's reading some kind of historical document on the wall there. But I love the shot because it's so perfectly done. Um, anyway, so that is how we use the transform tool. Feel free to play around with it. You can do things by slider, and you can do things by auto. But my favorite thing is the guided upright. That's that's the coolest thing about the transform tool. Okay, so now Oh, and by the way, it works great, even with people. So when I'm working on people here, here's the transform tool again, and this is off. See, It was a little screwy that way, and and I was shooting from the side a little bit. And then when I turned on the guided, it adjusted everything and the people still look good. So it's it's rare that the transform tool or that yeah, that transform tool will actually ruin a person. It does a pretty good job. I mean, you would have to go drastic in order for it to stretch a person in a weird way, so it does, does a great job.

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