Edit your Pictures for Social Media in Adobe LightRoom Classic

1. Introduction: Hello everyone. In this class, you will be learning how to edit your pictures for your social media inside Adobe Lightroom. We will be learning how to adjust brightness. Contrast, whites, black, shadows, highlights. Do the color grading inside Lightroom. Import and export the images that we want to edit or what we have, agitate. And then we will do the framing of it inside Adobe Photoshop. So this all will be the content for this small session. Without any further ado. Let's just jump right into Adobe Lightroom. 2. Importing Photos in LightRoom: Here we are inside Adobe Lightroom Classic or Adobe Photoshop Lightroom classic. You can say it whatever you want. And the first thing we have to do is copy, or you can say import your image or photo from the computer onto your Lightroom gallery. For that, you can go to File and then press the Auto Import. You can go with import photo or video, or you can just click on this Import button and it will pop up a window with your computer address so you can just locate your image file and then click on Import button to get that inside your Lightroom gallery. So let's just click import. And now I am going to locate my file. Here is my file, I just selected it. And now I can press input. And as you can see, I have my file in my gallery, and here I have it inside my gallery. Now, this is how you import a single file. Even if you had multiple files in that folder, you can just select all of them and click on Import. If you have the files and different galleries or different places, you can look at them one-by-one and import all of them. So this was about this lecture in which we learned how to import your files or photos inside Lightroom. So you can aggregate them, you can color grade them to give them an attractive look for your social media. 3. Lighting: We have our image inside our Lightroom gallery. Now it is time to develop the image. So after selecting the image by using your left mouse button, you can click on this developed button. Or sometimes this toolbar is not visible, so you can just left-click and click on develop. Or you can go to Window and click on develop, or you can even use the schottky. So I'll just click on develop. And here now we are inside Lightroom editor. On the right side, you can see there are different tabs which say basic tone curve, HSL, color split, toning, detailed lens correction, etc. So all of these functions have different importance, have different functions in editing, or you can set different role in editing images and giving them attractive look. As I'm seeing this image, I can see this is clicked in row, I guess, or maybe a slight of color grading has been done. So first of all, we have to go with the light and enlightening. We will be talking about the basic, we will just go with the basic Exposure contrast, brightness, highlight, shadow, violet, black, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So first of all, when you are inside basic, you have to decide whether you want to keep your image. Black and white are colored. So you can just click on black and white to turn the image into black and white. Obviously, you can see monochrome or you can click on Color to keep it colored. Now the next thing you can see is white balance. White balance is actually the colors that you see on your screen or you can see the color range. For example, here is a temperature that can go from blue to yellow. And even inside, you see it is like tuning your whole image into a single color. And then you have tent, and it's actually the same, but just into the different color scheme. So you can just slide the sliders a bit abet, abet, and get to a point where you actually like the image, but makes sure the white balance is actually applied to the whole image. Next thing that you see here is exposure and contrast. Now the exposure and contrast can basically be understood very easily by the brightness and darkness. For example, if you increase the exposure, all of the image, we'll have more light. For example, here you can see the image will become brighter and brighter and even if you decrease contrast, image will become darker. So exposure is like the aperture of your camera that will actually allow amount of light to pass. Now, this is not a real-time camera image. Or you can say this is not real-time camera actually. So we have the image and when you increase or decrease the exposure, it actually applies the brightness on whole image or the darkness and the whole image. And similarly goes for the contrast. If you increase that, it actually turns the blacks into the more blacks and enhance the whites. And if you decrease the contrast, it actually makes your image look flat. Or you can say like Roy image. So here you have to merge your contrast and exposure, or sometimes it is written as brightness. So you will merge both of these dials, or you can say sliders, to reach a particular point where your image will look good. For example, in our case, I can go to this point. And maybe this. Now, one more thing here is obviously, you should not go like this or this. And nobody actually goes like this. Some people will like this image at about this exploit. Somebody like at this X4 here. Somebody like at this contrast, something like this contrast. Actually there is no petrol for everything. Photography or you can say videography or image editing and all of the stuff. That actually depends more on how you want your image to be, on how you want your product to look like, because every product has its own audience. Art is not restricted to a single parameter or something like that. Just because your art is not liked by the person who enjoyed room, doesn't mean your artists trash until unless you actually like it. So you have to search for your audience and you actually search for your audience by posting the same pictures on the same the parameters again and again, again and again. For example, if you like black and white photography, you are posting all of those stuff again and again on your social profiles. And the people who actually like the black and white stuff. We'll get to your profile and you will get your own room where people like. Or you can say the people have the same brain or the matching vibe that you want, or that you want to make, or that you have. Stay easy when you are managing everything in the color grading or the picture editing. Just because not everyone likes what you collect grid, but if you calibrate something that you like, I'm 99% sure as you will find another 100 or a thousand or even lacks of people that would like the same thing. The world is so big. So now we have the exposure and contrast managed. Let's get toward highlights, shadows, whites and blacks. Now, the highlights are the brightest portions on your image, for example, in which the light is striking. As you can see, these parts. And the shadows are actually the darks. So you can enhance them or you can just diminished them. So for example, I showed you with an example when you increase the highlights, the wider portions become more white. And if you increase the shadows, the black portions become less bright. So if you decrease shadows, all of the dark portion becomes darker and darker. And if you decrease highlights the white version, the white portion becomes darker. If you increase the highlights, the white portion becomes more white. This is how everything works. So again, you can manage everything according to your own choice. And this is gonna be good. Now you have the whites and blacks and these actually applied to the whole image. The whites will actually change the whites or decrease the whites of your whole image. And blacks will actually change the black portion or the dark portion of your image. So let's get to a point where the image seems good to me. I'm good with this. So this is messing with the basics of your color grading inside Lightroom Classic. Now you can also see the texture, clarity, dehaze, vibrance, saturation, etc. I'm not messing with that at the moment just because that will actually become a mode of the intermediate or advanced level class or want to stay to the bigness. But I can let you know a bit about these. So the texture is actually the areas or the clarity of your image. For example, if you increase the texture, you can see all of these pixels become more sharpened. If you increase the clarity, the all of the sharpened part becomes more saturated. If you decrease the clarity, everything becomes soft. If you decrease the texture, everything becomes soft and a bit of bloody. So it is better not to miss them right now. And then the D Hayes is actually overall making your image row and vibrance and saturation will actually change your color schemes. Or you can say mature image mode color the less color. So for the moment, we are done with the basic part. And we have an image like this. For the moment, we have done all of the basic part and we have an image like this. We can compare this with the original image. So here was the original image and here is the edited one. So you can see the difference. By far. We can see that we have made the subjects stand out a little bit more. As you can see, everything is like the same panel or the same level in the row image. Or you can see the image which we were editing. But by far not added, we can see that there is a depth at background is separated. The shadows are more clear at the subject is most standing out. So let's just end this lecture right now and jump towards next part. 4. Colors: So in the previous lecture, we learned about the basics of the brightness contrast highlights, shadows, whites and blacks, etc. Now we will be talking a bit about the colors. Now you can see this image is looking good. This images, right? But we can also enhance the colors in it. Now, with enhancing the colors, I mean, you can go with the hue and saturation by going into HSL, going into hue and increasing a color. Or you can saturate the colors of it, or go to the luminance and increase the brightness. You can even get to the don't go and change the tones of the colors by changing these graph values and enhance your colors. For example, if I go to the red graph head, I can see that this area is going to give a green pens to my image and this will give a red bench. So I can add a node and move it a bit like this. Maybe this. And so now it's giving a proper cinematic look. Then you can go to greens. And you can see that this is going to be like this, pink or purple and the green on the upside. See you can again add some nodes. And the main function is actually to give your subject a vector look. You just modify everything until you get something that you like. So this is okay. Then you can go to the blues. And this is done. Now. This image is actually looking good to me right now. One thing you can also do is in the calibration part, the shadows which were fixed earlier. You can turn them maybe like this, and then you can increase or decrease the reds, greens, and blues of the image like we did on the upper part. So you can maybe decrease the hue of green a bit and maybe saturation of blue. And yes, this is it regarding the color grading. This was the previous image. This is the image that we have enhanced or you can see calibrated or changed a bit, even if you don't like them as you can. Go to the tone curve anytime and then modify the brightness, contrast, anything. You can actually do that just by changing this curve if you don't like to mess up with the sliders. So these are two variants of the same image that I created. I'm actually liking this one mode. So this is how you do with the colors inside Adobe Lightroom, Classic. 5. Final Touch: Now it's time for the final touch to your image editing inside Lightroom Classic. And then we will be shifting towards Photoshop for framing. So for the final touch, you can actually go to the details and increase or decrease the sharpening. And maybe increase this to a point that you like. You actually don't want to have noise inside your image. And this will work fine. Then you can go towards the lens correction and take this button, Remove Chromatic Aberration. Now what chromatic aberration is, if you zoom in a bit and see near the hair part or this part here, something looks like a bit messy actually. That is, I think very least, or no chromatic aberration. But in some cases you will see that at the edges, some colors mix up like shows like a rainbow or something like that. That is actually called chromatic aberration. So makes sure to click on this button to remove that from your image. And then you can even transform your image like in different kinds of planes like this. But these things actually were good when you are modifying a landscape image, etc. In the brokerage, you don't have to do this. When you have done everything you like. When you are happy with your image, you can just go to the File and then Export. And when you click on Export, you can go towards this button to specify a folder. I'll go with same folder as the original image on tactical explored would be the name. Quality will be 100, Which format will be JPEG. And then just export. Now the Lightroom will export this image, but the same folder I had, the image. Which row actually, we convert this into this using Adobe Lightroom Classic. 6. Framing and Export: We have already edited our image inside Adobe Lightroom Classic. Now it is time to make a frame potted inside Adobe Photoshop. So first of all, let's decide where we want to put that image invert perspective. For example, if you want to post it on Instagram, you can create a new document with dimensions 1080 by 1080. And that will work fine. If you are going for Facebook, you can go with the same dimensions, but if you want it to be your cover image or something like that, I'll suggest you 1920 by 1080. So first of all, let's go over the ten by 1080 format. I'll go with pixels orientation will be portrait. And then we'll go with 1080. By 1080 pixels per inch. Resolution would be 300 RGB color mode. It would be fine. And then create. So here we are inside Photoshop now, first thing you have to do is unlock your background layer. And now you have to import your file so you can either go to File, open and open your image as a separate PSD file, or you can go with Place, Linked, Art, Place, Embedded. So I'll go with Place Linked. Select my image and click on Place, and my image will get placed here. You can even open this image in a separate file and you will be good to go. Now, it actually shows that we have already made the frame like this is our image and this is our bought a frame. You can modify these frame by selecting a color from your background. And then going to paint bucket tool. Just make sure you have selected that layer. You can click it. Now you have the red frame. Now you have black frame. Now you have the green frame. Actually the frames which usually work at the white one and the black 11 thing more that you can do is select your image layer, right-click and then duplicate it. Duplicate the layer, lock the layer that is up, and move this down. And for the copy layer, you can show Transform tools and then increase its size a bit so that it feels like whole of the canvas. And when it fails all of the canvas. And when you have the image selected, go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur, and then increase the applied amount. Make sure you preview button is on. And blooded to amount where everything looks good. So this is how you edit your social media images and upload them. You can go with this frame, you can go to this frame, whatever you like. Also, you can also add, you can also add your signature. For example, you can add a layer. You can go x. And let's see, I'm saying simple. So you can go here, select your sample. First of all, change its color. Then you can change its font style. Maybe this, the sample is selected. You can decrease its opacity to make it blend better. And go to filters. Black Box Blur, list of all, rasterize it. And be like this. So you have your watermark on your image, but the blurry background, you have a watermark on your image with the white background. And this is pretty much it. Now when it comes to exporting, you can again go to File and then Export, Quick Export as PNG. Select the area where you want it to explode, just press the Save button, and your image will go to Export. Similarly, you can explore the second variant of it. We explored, change its name, maybe one or two. And you have your image right now. Let me show you all of the three images now. This was your raw image and this is what you edited with the white frame and with the bloody frame. See the difference. This is what you learned in this session related to Adobe Lightroom, Classic. 7. Class Project and Picture Reference: Congratulations. Now you know how to edit your pictures for social media inside Lightroom. So now you have to upload a class project up here on Skillshare. So you can confirm me that you learned something from this class. Now the only thing that can be a hurdle is a photograph. You can use your own picture or you can go to any of the free stock websites. For example, I got the image which I used from Unsplash and you can find the link to that image inside the description. So just get an image. Edit that according to your taste, according to your style. Frame that in Photoshop and upload as class project on Skillshare. This was all for this class. I will be back with new classes soon. Bye bye.