Photo Editing in Adobe Lightroom CC

1. Lightroom introduction: Oh. 2. Downloading Lightroom: Ready and Okay, so you've decided you're going to try light room. So pop onto the website of your choice and click Adobe. So this is going to take you to Adobe's website. And what you'll see is loads of really gorgeous creative things on here from Photoshop to Premier, et cetera. Have a browse around, see what's on offer. Otherwise, if you want to just jump down here to this section, see what amazing apps, endless possibilities there are. And we're looking for light room for desktop. If you want light room for your ipad, I do have a course on that as well. Okay, let's scroll down and I'm going to specifically choose Desktop. There you go. And let me find light room. There it is, Light room on Terabyte. So if you don't have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, you can set one up here. You can have a free trial of Photoshop. And if you stay on this page, it will show you some really cool things that it does. But don't worry because we are going to cover all of this ourselves in our little course. So again, if you don't have a plan, click free trial. It'll prompt me to add an e mail address and you'll have to set up and all of that jazz. You'll get this screen pop up here saying you've got a seven day free trial, but it's going to ask you if you go beyond your free trial, which one do you want? I would just put nine pounds, 98 per monthly, wherever you are. It'll cost slightly different depending on your currency and that way if you do run over, you're not going to get a massive bill. Or if you decide that light room isn't for you, you won't get a huge bill. Go in, put your e mail address in there, Download Creative Cloud, might take a bit of time, depending on your Internet, but download that and then launch light room. And I will see you in the next session where we're going to explore all these wonderful features. 3. Learning from the community: Ready. And in this tutorial we're going to look at how you can learn from the community. So you've opened light room, and if you go to the left and click Learn, you will see lots and lots of tutorials. And lots of photographers and artists have created their own unique looks. And you can follow along, so you can follow the person that's created the looks. All you need to do is click on it and you can start the tutorial. So what you get here is you get a step by step guide to talk to how they've created that look. As you can see, you get the little blue circle and however many steps of this one has 39 steps. So I can just click to the next steps. And what that does is it every step that photographer has taken, you go through the same process that is absolutely wonderful in order for you to see how the people are creating their work, how they're using the light and the color and different effects to create images. And to change a basic photo or a basic image into a different style or a different look. I'm just working through this again, What this shows you is it shows you where they're at, as you can see the sliders. But you can also change this yourself. So you can use their look as a basis and create your own individual look. So I can increase the temperature, I can increase the vibrancy of this. For example, I might want to play the saturation, et cetera. And then once I've done that, I can click to the next step and I can see where that's gone. Oh, I can just click the X and get out. Let's have a look some more and see what else is in this learning section of light room. If I see an image or a look or a style that I'm trying to replicate, I might want to go to learning topics. So I might want to go to light. I might look at how light can be used to increase or enhance my images. Or I might want to go to a different one. And I might see similar styles that I want to make. Or I might see errors that I've got and somebody else has corrected them. So I can just slide down, look in this community and click, so let's just click Improve Blue hour Image. That's just loading. So again, on the left you get the shot and on the right you get the edited version. So you can see the contrast and then comparison between the two. Obviously, I'm not going to go through all of these, but there's lots of different tools and lots of different areas you can work in. So you can lose hours and hours of your time in here. You can also change the level. So begin Intermediate, an expert, for example. Again, I'm just going to click a couple more. So you can see some of the examples you may or may not have. These examples you may have similar. If I want to be more specific, I can go down and look at really popular categories. The next thing I want to introduce you to is the community. So if you go over to the community link on the left hand side, you can see different images from people that have signed into the community. And in this tutorial series, I'm going to show you how to become a member of this community. What I can also do is I can create presets from this, so I can use the community's work, change a few parameters and create my own preset that I can then bring into light room within my own images. That's why we have this whole community section inside of light room because it's a really vibrant place where people can share, people can share their work, people can have conversations. People can use other people's discoveries to create their own their own lots or their own looks or their own kind of compositions within. So I'll just click that and I click Save. And then you'll see I can save my work. And again, I'm just going to scroll down so you can see different types of images. What I really love about the community section is it gives me inspiration to create new images or to create new pieces of filmic art. What's great about this section again, is it's a little play video. So they click plate and it's almost like a screen recording that goes through and it shows me every step that this photographer, or this artist has used to create this image to get to the final image. So again, if I'm doing similar techniques myself, I can then look at this or I can revert to the original and do it myself and follow along. Again, there's some really interesting stuff in here, some traditional stuff, some art based stuff. If you pop down, you go over to my profile. Obviously this is my profile. But you'll have your own profile once you've signed up for Adobe. So we're going to go into that later. Jump into featured. So these are some featured discoveries, so you can also go to new ones. So get them as soon as they've been uploaded into the community and you can again, work along and use that for inspiration for your own work, et cetera. And I'm not going to go through all of these and I'm not going to click them. But if you hover over them, you will see that it goes from the original to the finished version. So you can see the shift between what it was, when it was taken and what that photographer has done. If you go down, you can also follow people inside of the community. If you've got a favorite artist or a favorite photographer, you can follow them. You can also look at remixes, which is when you or somebody else has remixed at original image and then put that into the community for other people to use and for other people to share. If you start looking at something or you start looking at an image, you can then go back and you can remix that so you can share your perspective on that image, you can look at other people, can then use your technique and your different styles within light room. So that's a really quick overview of the learn section and the community. And I really encourage you to jump in and to try different things and just spend a couple of hours playing with that. Because although this tutorial series is about learning the basics to get you up and running, creating really fantastic editing images, a lot of learning will happen inside of this space. And I promise you if you really dive in, you will learn loads, okay? 4. Importing images from your desktop: Hello everybody. In this session we're going to create a stylized look using your wildlife photography. So the first thing I've got this image of a crane. I'm just going to click auto again. It doesn't quite work for me because it adds too much light. So I'm just going to undo that. Let's have a look at it as a black and white image. Let's move across again. Doesn't quite work for me. I'm just going to undo that. So I'm going to go over to this little HDR one here, high dynamic range. So you can see once I click HDR, it gives me some other options just below it. So I've got these options. Adobe Color, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Standard Vivid, et cetera. So I'm just going to have a look through these. Let me have a look. I'm going to go with Adobe Vivid. So that starts, give me a really strong base for that color that I want to work with. Just going to go across here to my exposure. Just bring that up a little bit. I'm really looking at this stalk here, this heron here. I'm just going to go down to my mask. I'm going to create a mask over my subject. There we go, that's identified my subject there. I'm going to look at this color here. Everything I do from here will just affect this bird as you can see. So I'm going to drop that down, increase the contrast. Drop the shadow, so I'm really getting that blue color to pop out there. Drop the black, so really create that depth. And I'm just going to go here. I'm just going to give that a little bit more tint and saturation again, I'm really looking to create a really stylized look to bring this bird out on this lake, this river that it's on. So I'm going to add a little bit of texture, a little bit of clarity, just to get some of that detail back. Just going to drop down. Let's have a look at the detail. Make it a little bit sharp, tiny bit other reduction because I'm doing a lot of post production to this. Then create a new mask on, this time I'm going to create a mask on the background so you can see it's in red. So that's what we're going to affect. So when I hover over that, you can see everything that in red is going to be affected. I'm just going to drop the exposure down here, play with a contrast, get a bit of temperature. Again, that's an extreme example. I don't want that extreme, so let me just reset that. Drop the saturation, a tiny bit might be a little bit too much. Bring it up a little bit, as you can see already. By creating a HDR image and by creating a couple of masks, one on the heroin and one on the lake in the background, I'm really creating this really stylized look. So I'm just going to look at my original. That's my original. And this is my stylized look, again, very different. So you could create really stylized images very quickly and very simply using masks, using the exposure. Using a couple of these tools. Just to really refine that. I'm just playing a little bit here with the crop, so I've just straightened it. I'm just playing with a bit of camera distortion. That's the original. Let me go down, let me have a look here. Just going to pull this in a tiny bit. Pull that down there. By giving this a little bit of a crop. I'm really, really focusing in on that bird. So I'm just going to read you that because it was a bit off from me. So let's pull that in a little bit. Move that across, looking at that rule of third. So I've got my guidelines here, so I can really use my rule of thirds. I'm pulling that across. It's not quite on the line but it's off center enough that it draws your eye to our subject. Really creating that definition between foreground and background. Just going to go back here to our presets. I'm just going to have a look, Is there anything in there that can just help refine that? Let me have a look actually. Do you know what? I'm quite happy with that. I'm just going to mark that as a good I'm going to flag that there with a tick, so it just makes it easier when I want to find. I can also at the bottom copy these settings, all of this stuff. I can copy that, and I can add that to a different image. So for example, if I had this image here, I could paste those settings. Now of course, this is a very different image, so it wouldn't work in the same way. But you can copy and paste if I've got something similar. Again, this is similar. If I just paste that in there, you can see what I've copied is only part of my edit there. If I just go back here and I'm just going to copy this and this is what I'm going to copy. I'm going to click all of these. I want to copy everything in there. Copy. If I just go back to this image and I just go there and I'll just click Paste. That's a right click and I can paste, or I can paste there, then that will do its thing. And there you go. It's taken those parameters from the first one and added them to the second image. Again, if you do it with a similar kind of image, then you get a similar look. And if I right click, I can just export that one photo. So I don't have to go through the whole export process. I can just export the one click export and that'll export it to my desired destination. So of course, I could go into the top corner and export that way and control it all, but that's a really quick way. So right clicking on your image is a really quick way to quick export. That's a super quick tour of how you create a really stylized look using your wildlife photography. 5. Noise reduction and Ai: Hello everybody. In this session we're going to look at noise reduction, both manually and with light rooms, New Edition AI voice reduction. So I'm going to go over to the right panel. I'm going to click the three lines, then I'm going to go right down to the bottom. And what you'll see here is you'll see a noise reduction. So first of all I'm going to do, if I just pull up the luminants, pull it up quite up so you can see and just pull up the color. If it's zoom in, you'll notice pull a bit higher. You notice it smooths all of that out. So I'm just going to undo all that so you can see the noise reduction. So that's the noise reduction. And if I pull up the luminants myself, if I go to the AI version, you'll see I can adjust the amount of noise reduction here. And I'm just going to click Enhance. This might take a little bit of time depending on how fast your computer is. You'll notice in the top left you'll see a little status bar that will just say generating enhanced DMG. That's working. Now again, this might take a little bit while because what this is actually doing is it's actually analyzing your image using AI technology. And it's going to find all of that grain and all of that noise. This is a staged shot. It's got some light from theater light. So you can see there's a little bit of noise in the shadows, in that lower end there. This is analyzing that. It's separating foreground of background. It's going to find it. And what it's going to do is, well you'll see in a minute because it's almost finished. But what it's going to do is it's going to really deal with that grain. Here we go. So let me just There we're going to look at that. Absolutely. Phenomenal. This is an absolute game changer when we're creating images or still, especially for stage or especially where you've not quite greatly settings. Right, And there's a little bit of additional noise. So you can do it manually using Luminant in the color or you can do it via AI. So I'm just going to drop down now into my mask. And you can see what this has done is it's created a mask already for me. So I can then go down and I can click if I want it to affect certain bits. So do you know I can click the hair and have this just affect certain bits of the hair? Or I can create a new mask there and I can just affect parts of their. So if I just go down here now and I go to my effects, I'm just going to add a little bit of texture because sometimes with this AI it is so good that it starts to lose its personal touch in my opinion. So I've denoised it. I'm just going to go in now and I'm going to do some really fine enhancements through the mask setting. Yeah, I think that looks pretty good. Let me go back up and I'm just going to pop down now in this section with the three sliders at the side, this is really affecting the whole image. Whereas when you create mask, you're affecting the part of the image that you specify. That's a really quick tutorial on noise reduction and a quick intro into masks. Have a play, see what you can create and yeah, my advice is use it sparingly, but it's definitely a really, really welcomed edition. I'll see you all in the next session. 6. Colour and how to use it: Hello and welcome back to this light room session. So in this session, we're going to exclusively focus on color and what the color menu does on the right hand side here. So the first thing, so we've got this image here, and we've got this really lovely orange here. And then we've got this blurred background. So we're going to focus on this orange. And we're really going to look at how we can use this color menu to manipulate this. So the first thing I want to do is if we go to the color tab here, so yours might be closed. So if we just open that there and the first thing we've got white balance is as shots. If I just click that little drop down menu, I can give it an auto and I can hang over there, Look, and you can see the difference. So as shot is a little bit warmer, it's a little bit colder auto. And you can do a custom, but I'm going to go as shot for now because I quite like the warm tones. So underneath there we've got temperature, tint, vibrance and saturation. What do they do? Let's have a look. So the temperature is, if you go to the left, it will go colder and that's obviously, that's an extreme, so you wouldn't go that far. If I go to the right, it makes it warmer. So more orange tones in that color palette. So let's just bring that back there. So I'm just going to get that, a tiny little bit of warmth there. Okay, tint. So if we go to the left, let's have what's happening. It starts to go greener, and if we go to the right, it starts to go pinker. So you're tinting the color that's already there. So I'm going to drop that back. I'm not going to use that. So vibrant really refers to the vibrancy of the colors. If I go this way, you'll start to see those colors getting much more vibrant and go to the extreme and you can see equally. The opposite will happen. If I go to the left, it will start to become black and white. Let's just go back and then saturation again, more color. Look at that NC being that red. And the opposite way is true. So we're just going to go there. That's what the color tab does with the temperature, the tint, the vibrant, and the saturation. Let's jump down now to our color mixer. You might not have color mixer selected again. We'll just pop down there. Let's just click on that there. If I'm going to click down here where mine says adjust and hue. And I'm going to go to color. First of all, this is what yours might look like traditionally. What is this? Okay, so can you see these colored circles here? So this refers to the color we're going to manipulate. So if I just click orange there, for example, watch what happens when I go to the hue. So I'm just going to affect everything in that orange space. Now notice in the background, some color is being manipulated there because that is part of that color space. The same with the saturation increase that, and if you notice this head look, it is getting a bit of color because his head is also part in that color space. And then the luminance again is about light. So I can bring in and out there. Let me just reset those. Okay, just bring that pop up down. We don't want to pop up menu there before and after. Okay. So I'm just going to bring these back down to something to zero. So I've got them so you can see exactly what we're going to do next. And then let's just scroll down. Let's go to our color point. This is our color point actually. Before we do that, let's go back up to color mixer. And let's go down here. Let's go look at hue. If we go to our Hue dropped down menual, you'll notice our menu changes. So we have red, orange, yellow, et cetera. Now what we're doing is we've separated all these colors out, so we're just going to affect the red hue there, and then we're going to affect the orange hue there. You can see if I do this and go to extreme, you'll see the NCB has different colors in there because they're being affected differently. The yellow I can affect if I do that extreme, you can see in the background there's more yellow. Same with the green, aqua blue. As you can see, I'm affecting everything that's in that blue palette. Purple, which is mostly in the corner, and magenta, which is mostly our NCB. So that is what our hue color part does. So let me go back. Oh, there. So we've got that again. We can drop down and we can have the same for our saturation. So we can have individual color saturation. So let me go to orange, and I'm just going to adjust the saturation of orange. But let me drop everything else down here. And I'm just going to do this quick. You can see we can get rid of lots and lots of color and just have some things here with our color, we can really highlight colors and start to create really interesting effects here. Let me just go back there, drop down there. And then we have the Luminant again, which is about the light you can see there. If I can drop things and I'll do this to the extreme, you can see I'm really affecting the light inside of those colors. That's what happens inside the color mixer. Now let's quickly jump down to our point color again. We've got huge shift saturation, luminant range, and visible range. What is this then? Let me hover over here. And again, I get this really neat little video gift here that shows me. But let's do it. Let's select the color mixer. And let's go over here. And well, the obvious one is this orange here. Now look what's happened here. This is the color I'm working with. Now. Let me just change this hue. I'm only affecting that color. Now I've got some spell off onto that pipe, but as you can see, everything in that color space goes back. When you do this, you really. And I can drop the range down. So let me just drop the range there and let me go there. Let me just play with that range. So you can see if I do this on this face, it's subtle, but I'm just dropping that range down for that color Again, if I go here and I bring the saturation up there. Sometimes with this, less is more. I might want to just want to change that a little bit. There we go. That's what you can do with the point colors, really. It's about picking certain colors out. Let's do it again on the blue. Here they go. So you can see already it's created an extra layer now. So I've got my orange one, and I've got my blue one, and my lines have shifted. So let's just try this now. If I, let's bring that down a little bit there, because maybe that's pulling focus, for example, and we really don't want it. So I could just shift that out there. Then again, I could do another one. So I could pick the color picker and I could say, let's do this black. There you go. You see, it's what I wanted to show. You cannot select a color here. Let's just please click on a bright area so we can't detect black. But let's go over here and pick this green so you can see this green. And again, we can just move that around down there. Just drop that. So our chap, really, there you go. So it really starts to bring him out from the foreground. So that's a really quick guide into the color. Now, I know there's color grading down here, but I want to do a separate tutorial on that because I believe it deserves its own separate tutorial. That's a really quick quick go on color inside of light room. I hope that's been really useful. What I want to do now is I want you to take some of your pictures. I want you to try. I want you to experiment. And I want you to see how you can start to create really interesting, stylized looks within your own pictures. Well guys, I will see everybody in the next session. 7. Colour Grading : Hello everybody. Welcome to this next session where we're going to look at color grading. I have this image here, which is a light installation taken from above. So you can see there's got some beautiful colors. Let me zoom in here, so you can see some really beautiful colors. So we're just going to start pulling these out now. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go to the color grading tab on the right hand side here. And let's just have a play with what these do. So the first one, we have our mid tones. So let me reset all of that because I've been playing before, this tutorial. So we have our mid tones. That's everything within the mid color range. So within that light, in that mid tones. If I go to this slide here, just watch what happens. When I pull it down, you can see it gets darker and it gets brighter. Let me just reset that. What we're going to do is we're going to look at mid tone. I really want to look at this middle part of the image. Let's just have a look here. If I'm just going to pull this towards the red, you can see it starts to affect everything in that middle. We can turn that red there. Then let's go to our shadows. If again I can drop this down here, Look, and that's really dropping all of my shadows down there. And again, I can bring them up, but I'm just going to drop them a tad there to really create this effect. Let me just zoom back out there. And then let's just pull this towards the blues so we can start to create really stylized images. Often when you're color grading your images less is definitely more. Let's just go to our highlight. Same sort of thing here. I can increase the light there and then drop that down and it's very subtle, but if you just look at the light tubes inside this insulation, you will see the pop up there. And I'm going to, again, for the purposes of this tutorial, I'm just going to have a play around. I'm just going to move it around so you can see what's happening. Just give that a little bit across there and I'm going to really make this warm. To really make this warm. So you can see my shadows have got blues in them. My highlights and my midtones have got that red, pinky color in them. There, I'm really emphasizing what's already there. Then let's just have a look at this one blending. If I blend, you can see 100% It's a bit too much for me, but you get the point there. And if I go down back to my original, I can blend in there and the balance I can weigh one way or weigh the other way. So I can go warmer or colder. I'm just going to keep that about there. So that's a really, really good way to look at color grading. Let's choose another image, Excuse me, Let me just pop that out. So we have this image here, which is a graffiti sign that I've taken a picture of. So we're in our color grading here. We've got our shadows there, we've got our mid tones there, we've got our highlights. And we have our global. Let's just have a look at global. If I just do that, it does the entire image go across, The entire image is affected by that color. Let's reset that. Have my three color wheels here. I've got all three at once. I prefer to work with three color wheels. But again, if you just want to work with the shadows here, you can just click the shadows and pull that in there. Let's just look at the drop that down there. A little bit of blending, a little bit of balance. I'm going to make this one A. Let's go over in this range here. Let's go to our mid tones. Just make it all a little bit there and go to our highlights. Let's just offset that a little bit there. Let's just go back to our main one. Let's have a look at the original versus our color graded one, the original versus our color. You can really see how by being a little bit selected with your color grading, you can really bring those colors to pop. I'm just going to. Let me go here. There we go. Just increase that a little bit. Let's go back to our original and our graded now. Again, you can spend as long or as little time on this as you would like, and you can really start to bring individual colors out. Again, if I go to the point color, which we've done in a different tutorial, and I go to this color here, you can see there. I'm just going to give a bit of a huge shift there. I'm just going to increase that situation and just make that a little bit brighter again, just jumping back over here. Original, more vibrant. And I can do the same with this green, and I can do the same with these pinks, et cetera. So that's a really quick tutorial on the color grading section with a little bit of point color thrown in, hope that's been useful and I look forward to seeing you guys in the next session. 8. Editing stage images: In this session we're going to look at how you edit stage photos. This is the original photo and it's underexposed and this is the final image and the look that we're going for. Let's go back to the original image and let me talk you through this workflow. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go open the sentence tab. And I'm just going to click auto. As you can see there didn't really do any favor, so I'm going to undo that. I'm going to go down into our presets tab. Just looking through these, I'm going to click, let me have a look. There we go. I'm going to click Glow. So that then gives my subject a nice glow around the edges. And I'm just going to have a look at that is the just a tiny little bit with the slider there accent. So I'm just going to come off and have a look. Let's just, there we go. And that creates a mask as you can see around my subject. So then I can start working in different, multiple layers. So let me just go over here. As you'll see with a little clock in the bottom, you can see the different stages. So you can always go back a stage if you think you've gone too far. So I'm going to create a new mask for the background and you'll see that highlighted in red. So now anything I do will just affect the background sign're. Going to drop the exposure right down. If I go right to the, you'll can see what's happening there, but that's too far from me, so I'm going to slide that across and that's getting rid of all that detail in the background that I don't necessarily want right there. So I'm just going to zoom in and you can see that. Yep, that's got a nice contrast, but I've got this fringing there down here that I don't necessarily want. So I'm just going to go here and I'm just going to crop this out. So by doing the background, that's giving me a little bit of a fringing, which I'm not necessarily that impressed by, so I'm just going to drop this in and get rid of that. So there you can see that's no longer an issue anymore. So I'm just going to go down here and then I'm going to change the color so I have a look that's auto, that's daylight, that's cloudy. This is a really great feature, the temperature within the color palette because you can really change the look of your image. So that's what it would look like if I shot on the tungsten, which is, again, it's quite blue in terms of the light, but I'm going to go under fluorescent because I really like this warmness here. And I'm going to go back up and I'm just going to play with the black. So a lot of this is triliner. It's really about creating the look that you want to create. So I'm just going to go to my curves and just pull that down a little bit. Pull it up, that looks great. Just moving down, look at my effects. Give it a little bit of a vignette just to nicely smooth that black into the image, just to create a bit of depth. That's the original as you can see, and that's where we've landed with this so far. All I've done is a couple of little bits of adjustments. So if I just click the tab, you can see the original versus the one that we've created. So that's available for everybody, so everybody can do that once you're working in light room, Really quick tutorial on creating different looks. There's no right or wrong way to do this, It's really about your preference. For me, I quite like warmer images. But what I really encourage you to do is to really go into the minutia of those precepts and really look at what you can do with the color or what you can do with the exposure, et cetera. That's it for this session and I will see you in the next one. 9. Creating your own stylised look wildlife: Hello everybody. In this session we're going to create a stylized look using your wildlife photography. So the first thing I've got this image of a crane. I'm just going to click auto again. It doesn't quite work for me because it adds too much light. So I'm just going to undo that. Let's have a look at it as a black and white image. Let's move across again. Doesn't quite work for me. I'm just going to undo that. So I'm going to go over to this little HDR one here, high dynamic range. So you can see once I click HDR, it gives me some other options just below it. So I've got these options. Adobe Color, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Standard Vivid, et cetera. So I'm just going to have a look through these. Let me have a look. I'm going to go with Adobe Vivid. So that starts, give me a really strong base for that color that I want to work with. Just going to go across here to my exposure. Just bring that up a little bit. I'm really looking at this stalk here, this heron here. I'm just going to go down to my mask. I'm going to create a mask over my subject. There we go, that's identified my subject there. I'm going to look at this color here. Everything I do from here will just affect this bird as you can see. So I'm going to drop that down, increase the contrast. Drop the shadow, so I'm really getting that blue color to pop out there. Drop the black, so really create that depth. And I'm just going to go here. I'm just going to give that a little bit more tint and saturation again, I'm really looking to create a really stylized look to bring this bird out on this lake, this river that it's on. So I'm going to add a little bit of texture, a little bit of clarity, just to get some of that detail back. Just going to drop down. Let's have a look at the detail. Make it a little bit sharp, tiny bit other reduction because I'm doing a lot of post production to this. Then create a new mask on, this time I'm going to create a mask on the background so you can see it's in red. So that's what we're going to affect. So when I hover over that, you can see everything that in red is going to be affected. I'm just going to drop the exposure down here, play with a contrast, get a bit of temperature. Again, that's an extreme example. I don't want that extreme, so let me just reset that. Drop the saturation, a tiny bit might be a little bit too much. Bring it up a little bit, as you can see already. By creating a HDR image and by creating a couple of masks, one on the heroin and one on the lake in the background, I'm really creating this really stylized look. So I'm just going to look at my original. That's my original. And this is my stylized look, again, very different. So you could create really stylized images very quickly and very simply using masks, using the exposure. Using a couple of these tools. Just to really refine that. I'm just playing a little bit here with the crop, so I've just straightened it. I'm just playing with a bit of camera distortion. That's the original. Let me go down, let me have a look here. Just going to pull this in a tiny bit. Pull that down there. By giving this a little bit of a crop. I'm really, really focusing in on that bird. So I'm just going to read you that because it was a bit off from me. So let's pull that in a little bit. Move that across. So looking at that rule of thirds. So I've got my guidelines here, so I can really use my rule of thirds. I'm pulling that across. It's not quite on the line but it's off center enough that it draws your eye to our subject. Really creating that definition between foreground and background. Just going to go back here to our presets. I'm just going to have a look. Is there anything in there that can just help refine that? Let me have a look actually. Do you know what? I'm quite happy with that. I'm just going to mark that as a good I'm going to flag that there with a tick, so it just makes it easier when I want to find. I can also at the bottom copy these settings, all of this stuff. I can copy that and I can add that to a different image. For example, if I had this image here, I could paste those settings. Now of course, this is a very different image, so it wouldn't work in the same way. But you can copy and paste if I've got something similar. Again, this is similar. If I just paste that in there, you can see what I've copied is only part of my edit there. If I just go back here and I'm just going to copy this and this is what I'm going to copy. So I'm going to click all of these. I want to copy everything in there. Copy. If I just go back to this image and I just go there and I'll just click Paste. That's a right click and I can paste or I can just paste there, then that will do its thing. And there you go. It's taken those parameters from the first one and added them to the second image. Again, if you do it with a similar kind of image, then you get a similar look. And if I right click, I can just export that one photo. So I don't have to go through the whole export process. I can just export the one click export and that'll export it to my desired destination. So of course, I could go into the top corner and export that way and control it all, but that's a really quick way. So right, clicking on your image is a really quick way to quick export. That's a super quick tour of how you create a really stylized look using your wildlife photography. 10. How to photo merge to create stunning images: Ready and hello everybody. In this session we're going to look at photo merge. So it's something you may have heard before. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to add photos. And I've taken some on my drone here, so I'm just going to find them. So there's my mini pro and here are my images and here are the photo merge images. Photo merge takes lots of different photos with different exposure levels. And then what we're going to do is in light room, we're going to merge them altogether, so they're taken from the same angle. So I've added all five photos here, so I'm going to select them all. There we go. And I'm going to write Click. And I'm going to go down and they can see Photo Merge, HDR, merge. I'm going to click this. It's going to take a little bit of time, depending on how fast your computer is, but it is generating previews. And here we go. Almost done. And this is a photo merger. This has merged all of those five photos together to create one image. So what it's done is it's taking what it thinks is the best parts of all those images. It's exposed it for the blue sky. It's auto aligned it, It's applied those auto settings. So I can also adjust the amount here as you can see. Can put a slider. I can see where the images are overlaid, so where all that detail is that's being affected. If I just click Merge there, then what happens here is that all merges into one photo there. That is the one photo. So I can then go about my business editing that photo like I would it any normal photo with all these standard parameters and you can see with the color sliders where the photo mergers created those different parameters. I'm going to 16 by nine that and just readjust that on the horizon there on that line just to give it a bit more pleasing on the eye. And I'm going to go down and then what I can do is close them off. I can look for a preset. I'm just going down, trying to find it here. Here we go. Subject landscape. And I can create different looks with these presets and select different amounts that I want to use depending on the style that I want to create. And we spoke about how style is very personal to you, so there's no right or wrong way. It's really about what your preferences are. So I'm just going through these now, having a look at them. And then as I go through them, you can see what each different one does within that u, that parameters. I'm just going to go down here to our masking. And you'll notice here what's happening is it's auto analyzing this. So it's analyzing that. To figure out what kind of scene is what I'm going to do as well as I go back to my edit page and I'm just going to look at the different types of parameters I can use so I can do it as shot, I can do daylight, I could do sunrise or sunset, which is what I've done. I've gone back here to my mask and I've created a mask for the sky only. I'm just going to increase the color of the sky. Anything I do in this part of the mask will just affect the sky. So I'll boost it up so you can see that their temperature just really creating color depth within this photo merged image. This is really creating a dramatic landscape with this photo. Merge again, there's no right or wrong way. This is just my preference. I quite like to underexpose it and give it a bit more contrast just to really create that separation there. So normally what I do is I'll bounce between different tabs. So I might go to the crop tab and readjust that crop. Or I might go to the exposure tab and look at the exposure of the color, and then jump into a mask tab, et cetera. So that's asking me if I got the results that I wanted. So I'm just going to click yes there. So I'm really happy with the way that photo merge is looking, so I'm just going to say that. And again, right click and I can enhance this image now. So what this is going to do is it's going to use light room AI. And it's going to look at that and it's going to enhance it. It gives me this little preview here. So there's a couple of warning triangles there, but I'm just going to click Super Resolution. And there you go, that is. Now using AI to enhance that image. It's just really adding that detail and playing with creating just a much more higher resolution image inside of that photo merge that we've worked on. So that's the original and that's where we've ended up. These are the original photos and that's the one that we finished with by photo merging. I can then right click and I've got this sub menu that happens here, so I can open up the detail of these different images. I go to my export button in the top right corner. I can export it as a small or a large export the original. So if I just click export there, that will then ask me where I want to save this. I'll just save it. Then I'll just click Export. And that's how you do a photo merge, using HDR and then using your color parameters to create a really dramatic image. I hope that's been useful and I will see you in the next session. 11. Create dramatic sunrise: Hello everybody. In this session we're going to create a dramatic sunset from, to be honest, what is a really average image from myself. So this is the sunset we're going to create. So first of all, I'm going to click auto. So that'll give me an average sense. But again, I don't like it, so I'm going to click black on white and I'm going to come back. I always do this because I like to see that looks like clicking HDR. Then I can go to my SDR settings and have a look there. Can you see very simply by a click of a button? If I turn it on, it gives me different stops, so I can play with different stops of dynamic range within there already. Very quickly, that looks great actually. So it really brings out the difference in the contrast between the light and the dark. Again, have a play around with this. And you can see what the different stops do, whether you need all the stops or 1234, et cetera. So I'm going to leave it up for the next thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to have a look at my light. So I'm going to, if I hover over what the word is, it will tell us and give us an explanation of what that does. If you ever get stuck, hover over that and it'll give you an explanation. So I'm just going to increase my exposure tiny bit am I tiny bit there. We're going to put a bit of contrast in there. Highlight that just to really get that glow pop in. Drop the shadows, increase the whites, and drop the blacks a little bit. So really create that depth between the light and the color and the darkness. And then let me just have a look at the different color. I've got adobe landscape there, so it has a very specific one for landscaping. And you can see I'll just retweak my settings here. Retweak my exposure and contrast. Again, I say this a lot, but this isn't a perfect science. This is really about you finding a look that you like. So I'm going to go down to my curves. I'm going to create a little S curve at the top. Pull that up and at the bottom, pull that down, just to really create that depth and draw your eye in and then into the color. Let me have a look down here. Yep, I really like that orange color. So I'm just going to add a bit of depth in there. So I'm just going to scroll down a little bit. So you can see on here, go to my color grading section, which we've not really looked at yet. But essentially this is your mid tones, shadows and your hines, which we're not going to touch, have a play with that effects. Going to look at my texture, a bit of clarity because I really want to pull out that clarity in those clouds. Let me just go down to the detail, give a bit of sharpening and again, the original. Back to this image. There we go. Come out of that image. There we go. Let me go down and have a look. So I'm just going to create a bit of noise so it is quite dark, so I'm going to use the magic noise feature on the AI, and we've discussed this in a previous session. There we go. I'm going to look at that, I'm going to let it do an auto take on this. Again, depending on how quick your computer is, this should take a little bit of time. My computer is quite quick, so it shouldn't take too long. Great, you can keep working whilst it's doing that. Anyway, so I'm just going to go to my healing tool here, increase the size of this. And you can see there's a couple of lights here. All I'm going to do is I'm just going to paint those out and it doesn't work every time. This is not an exact science. As you can see, it's clone in different areas of the industry. If I did one here, look, watch what happens here. When I slide all the way across there, it adds more lights in because it's clone in a different area. So I can pull that across there and I can get rid of them. But actually we want a little bit in, otherwise it'll become quite sterile. It's just these little ones down at the bottom here. Because I think they just draw the eye a little bit. Jump into the heel tool, just heal those a little bit. The heel might be better for this. There we go. Just clicking on them and going through them and you can see that all I'm doing now is just getting rid of a few of those stragglers just to make it less distracting for the eye, really. There we go. And I'm not going to go too crazy on this because again, I don't want to waste all of your time with you watching me clicking buttons. But let me come out of that and then go back there. Let me just have a look that's looking good. Bit of cloning of those lights there. Yeah, move that across. Obviously I've cloned a light there. Can you see how I moved that light around? So I'm going to pop that in there. So it's part of that line of house lights, but not in that black space down at the bottom there. I'm just going to refine this across. I'm just moving and pulling that round, there we go. Well, that's looking pretty good and don't worry, the circles won't appear once you expose. So I'm just going to go back across here now and all of that's gone. Just check that I've not missed any. There we go. Yeah, not happy with that. Go back to my mask here and I'm just going to click my Sky. That's going to create a mask for the sky there. So that's going to figure out what is sky and what isn't sky. There we go, wonderful. And now I can do some fine adjustments just to the sky without affecting any of that other image. Ooh, that's very dramatic. If I increase that temperature, I actually really do like that. But the reds, little bit too red. And I do want to keep a little bit of blue because this is sunset. So it's just as. Yeah, we're just nights force, so we want to get that contrast between that blue and that orangey ready glow. And I think that looks pretty cool. Actually, let me just go back up here and just drop down. Just turn that off to see if that's now affecting it. Let me have a look. That's without the curve. That's with the curve just in case you want to see what this is actually doing. You can always just step back and step forward so you can have a look at it. And then I'm just going to go down here to my color. That's automatic. That's daylight clouds, shade. Oh, we don't want tungsten. We can go custom. I'm going to let me have a look. I can't decide between daylight and cloudy. Let's go cloudy. And that will just give me a few more detail in those clouds there down here. And then I'm just going to, what am I looking for? Let me just slide up here. There we go, a bit of contrast. Drop that down because it's a bit too contrast. Just having a look at that. I think that looks pretty good, actually. So that is how very quickly you can create a dramatic sunset. So I'm going to pop that over to my export settings and then I can decide my export quality. So I've got a preset here, so I'm going to do that to JP large 100% quality. And these are little arrows that you can just click. I'm going to pop my watermark on there. There we go to that. Looks pretty good. I can put copyright only so people can't copy right image. If you've got that you're publishing online that you don't want people to copy. You can click this copyright only. Put my name in, there we go. Decide what the output is. So I'm going to go for screen. And then that's my core spaces. S, RGB. Yep, custom name. There. And there we go, we are. Good to go in my watermark. I've just got some copyright information. If you want to put some copyright information, you can do that, or you could put a graphic in. If I'm just going to put my logo up here, you'll see if I can spell, there we go. Let me just put this in there so I can put my logo in on any image. And this will then be a preset of how I want to set it up and how I want to align it and the opacity and all of that. Then every time I click watermarking graphic, this will appear on every image. It's definitely worth setting that up. Just click done and there you go. That is there, embedded in the imagery. If anybody did copy your image, it would have your watermark on it. I'm not going to export this because I just wanted to quickly show you that little feature because I realize that I've not mentioned that in a previous tutorial. That's a really quick overview in terms of how you can create dramatic sunsets. With very little effort, I hope that was useful and I shall see you very soon. 12. Video in lightroom: Ready Y. Hello everybody. Welcome to this next session. Today we're going to look at how you can use video inside of light room. I'm working on a local hard drive, so you'll see in the top left corner, I've got my local hard drive open and I've got biking running open and down at my bottom time on here I've got some footage that is pre loaded up, for example. Okay. So we're just going to pull one up here and as you can see, I can play that in here. There we go. So you can see that P. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm just going to select the bit. If I click trim down at the bottom here, you can see I can just move across. And there's a couple of different ways you can do this, but let me move across and just select this bottom bit there that I'll do for the purposes of this tutorial. I have this here. What can I do with this video footage? I hear you ask. The first thing we can do is if we go over to the right side, we'll see our usual tabs but you'll notice summer grade out. Let me just click that there. Available basically, I can't use the healing tool, I can't use the masking tool, I can't use different versions and I can't go back there. All of those are grade out, they're not usable. Let me go here, so I can trim and rotate. You'll notice this is slightly different if I had a video, if I had a photo, for example. I go up here and I've got all of my color editing tools here. Some are grade out, optics is grade out. As you'll notice, the noise is grade out. Lens blur is graded out. If it's grayed out, basically you can't use it. So I can black and white my footage. There we go, I'm going to undo that. I can look at my color profiles here. So I've got color or monochrome. I can auto, There we go, straight away auto. It looks great already, but we want to do a little bit more. I'm going to go over to my presets here. You'll notice some of these presets I won't be able to use, portrait won't really work in this space. But if I go right down to the bottom, I've got it open. But let me look at here. Video Creative. So I can go hover over that and it will give me different creative looks based on these presets. For example, I could make it look like an old video. I could give it a nice blue tint and so on. But I'm going to go for this one here. Again, I can affect the amount that I want that I'm just going to leave that around the default, 900100, et cetera. I just go out of this and I go across to here. I can color grade it. I can do the shadows, I can do the highlights on, I can look at color curve. So I can use color mixes so I can look at color hue saturation luminus. Again, I'm only affecting this bit because this is a bit that I've already put as we did earlier. I can calibrate it. Let me just do this really quick there, you'll see I can create really stylized look. Let me put that back because obviously that's not what we're going to do because my precepts already given me a look. Say I've edited my video and it's exactly where I want it to be what we're going to do next. I'm going to go up here to my export, my share feature. And I've got all of these options so I can use my previous settings. That would be command E. If you're on a Mac, I could use P four edited video and then it can tell me where I want to go and I can export. Now that is, as you'll see in the top corn here, that's exporting. So this is a really great little thing. If you're doing short reels or you're doing social media content and you want to quickly color grade it, or you want to give it a very stylized look. You can use Adobe Light Room CC to color grade your videos. This is huge. Okay. That's enough from me. I hope that was really useful. And there's some takeaways for you. Please do, drop any questions or engage with everybody in the group, chats inside of the courses, wherever you're taking them. That's it from me, I hope you all have. I love the day and I look forward to some new sessions and engaging with you all soon. 13. Share your workwith the community: Ready and hello everybody. So you've created some fantastic images and you've edited some amazing photos, and you want to share them with the community. So let's have a look how we do that. So first of all, I'm just going to pick a couple of images that I think I would like to share with the community. Let me have a look. Let me just jump down to my online core section and up, there we go. This will do that heron that we edited in a previous tutorial. Okay. So I'm going to do a few fine adjustments here because I just want to make this heron pop out. I'm just going to go to my mask, pop my heron. There we go. So that's in red, so I know it's affecting that. I'm just going to give it a bit of a color boot, so increase the saturation. Increase the color. There we go. Let me have a look. What else do we want to do? I'm just going to update that because obviously I've previously edited this, so we just need to update that. There we go. And that looks pretty good. Let me just give it a little bit of texture just to really make those feathers pop in a little bit of clarity. There we go. I'm really liking the way that looks at this. I'm going to go over here, I'm going to go to the export. And you'll notice I've got all of my custom settings, et cetera. I could export it as a Jpeg small or large. And we've been through all of this equally. If I go down to commuting and I click Share to the community. So the first thing I'm going to do is as this image uploads, I'm going to need to put in a title, So I'm going to call this heron patiently waiting on a lake. There you go. So that's the title of the image. And then I'm going to need a description. So I find that it's really useful to put a description of what you've done in your edit. So I don't want this in capital, let me just rewrite that. So I'm going to put a description of what I've done. So first of all, I've isolated the subject from the background or the foreground from the background. I put in the keyword in hen, keyword in lake, et cetera, pro tip. If you are looking to upload your images to the community, I would write this stuff in advance. So open this page, have a look at the information you need, prewrite all of that, and then you can just copy and paste that in so that speed this process up as you're uploading your images. So once I've got my text in there, I'm just going to read it to make sure it's got all the keywords in and it accurately depicts what it is that the image represents really. So I'm going to go down here to the category, I'm going to click Animal, And then I'm going to go down here to category number two. And I'm going to click what it is, it's a nature. And then category number three, documentary. Where is that gone? Oh, I've gone past it. Let me have a look up. They go, I can't see for looking. They go documentary. So I'm having a few Internet issues here. So let me just quickly change off my Internet onto a different Internet. There we go. And this is always the thing that gets a slow Internet, but not an issue. What I'll do is I'll jump off this and I'll speed this video up right now. There we go. Jump off, jump back in, blah, blah, blah, all of that information. There we go. So my image is ready to go. It is uploaded into the community so other people can see it, can share, it, can remix it themselves like we've done in previous lessons and you've probably done by your exploration and your learning. So that is how you can share your edits with the community. I hope that's been useful and I will see you in our next session.