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1. Intro: Hi, my name is Quintin bachelor and this is my mobile
Lightroom course. Are you wanting to do
a little bit more to your photos then
throwing a filter on them and spruce up your Instagram or other social media platforms a
little bit more. Or maybe taking photos is a hobby of yours and you
want to learn how to actually edit your
photos where you don't actually have a
computer to edit on. Well, you can do
just as good a job with your phone to
edit your pictures. And I should know
firsthand because when I first started
getting into photography, I did not have a computer
because buying equipment for photography can be
extremely expensive. And I couldn't really
buy everything all at once for a good
portion of my time. And female photographer, at the beginning for a few years, I edited all my photos on
nothing about my phone. And I actually got really
used to doing it on my phone and got pretty
good at it as well. Editing your photos
on your phone is completely viable oxygen
because Lightroom is such an amazing
software and you're not missing out on any stuff that
you can do in a computer, then on a phone or a tablet, whether you're using
your phone or an iPad. This class is going to show you everything you need to know how to edit your photos like a pro using Lightroom
on your phone. In this class, we'll go over everything that learning
the layout of Lightroom and how to import your photos from your camera roll or from
any file in your iCloud. Also, how to keep your
Lightroom organized as you start your journey
using the software. And once you get the feel
for how Lightroom actually works and get a
grip on the layout. We'll then dive deep into every single icon in tool
that Lightroom has to offer. Starting at the bottom
left and making are awake all the way to the right
covering every single icon. Now only will you know
what everything is and does what you'll actually
learn how to use it in, when to use it as well. Once you learn how to
actually use the tools, I'll then show you how to
create your own style and export photos and create
your own presets. This quick and easy
to follow class is a jam packed
full of information that is going to help you create the most amazing edits on your photos with nothing
but your iPhone. With that being said, I'll
see you in the next lesson.
2. Import Your Photos: Before we jump on in and
start editing our photos, I need to first show you how to import them on
Lightroom Mobile, there are two different ways
you can import your photos. If you take a look at my screen, you can see I have a lot of
photos in Lightroom already. If you've never used
Lightroom before, you're not gonna have
any photos here, so don't worry if it
looks different from mine when you're in your library in the bottom right-hand corner, there's gonna be a little icon of a picture with a plus sign. We're gonna go ahead and tap
that to import some photos. Once you tap that, you will
have an option to choose between Camera Roll
and from files. Now if you take all your
photos with your phone, from camera rule is the option you're
going to want to use. If you tap that,
you can simply go through and choose any
photo in your camera, roll and add it to
your Lightroom. Will go ahead and tap
these three little dots up in the right-hand corner. And now we can go ahead
and select Select mode and choose all the
photos we want to add. Once you have all the
selected photos you want, go ahead and just tap Add, and it will add them to your Lightroom at
the very bottom, it'll say seven
successful photos. If you use a traditional
camera with a memory card, the way you're going
to want to go is go ahead and tap the same icon, and this time choose from file. Now if you have your
iPhone in your computer, sync up with the same Apple ID. If you go into files, it will show you every
single thing you have on your computer in
the Documents tab. And you can simply add all
your photos you took from your DSLR upload onto your
computer, go into Lightroom, choose from files in all of the documents and
photos that are in your documents folder
on the computer will show up on your phone and you can simply
add them over. So that's how you upload
photos if you are just using your phone or if you're taking photos with your
traditional camera. But let's say you're
in a situation where you're using a traditional
camera with a memory card, but you don't have a computer
to upload your photos. Most modern cameras
these days are going to have a built-in
Wi-Fi capability, which means you can connect your phone to your
cameras, Wi-Fi, transfer your photos
over that way, straight onto your phone
and then onto Lightroom. I'm not going to go
over how to do that because it's different
for every camera. But I highly recommend
you look into that for your camera if you find
yourself in this situation.
3. Organization: Now let's talk
about organization. If you're just barely
starting out on Lightroom, I highly recommend that
you create a habit of keeping all of your storage
organize as you go. Building a bigger portfolio in Lightroom organization is
key to finding things.
4. Lightroom Mobile Layout: One last thing I want to go
over before we start editing is a quick rundown on
the Lightroom layout, just so you're a little
familiar where everything is. So right now my screen is on the library or all photos tab. If I scroll down, these are all the photos I have
in my Lightroom. And if we tap this little arrow in the top left-hand corner, like in the last video. This is going to
show us our library where all of our
different folders and albums are going to be. Now if we make our way
back into all photos and tap the three little dots up
in the right-hand corner. This is going to give us
a little bit of control of what our library
it looks like. Basically you just select
as many photos as you want. You can drag your finger
and then you can delete all these photos or you
can add them all to album, whatever you want to do. You also have an option
to filter your photos. You can filter your
photos by camera people, location keywords or edited. All right, let's go
ahead and tap on a photo now and see
what we can do in here. Now things become a
little bit more hands-on. And from here we can go ahead and choose our export settings, but we're gonna get into
that later on in this class. Or if we tap the
same three dots, we can get into organization. We can copy settings, great presets in a bunch of other stuff and we'll
get into later. And then at the bottom of the
photo you'll have a line of all the different tools
that you can use to edit your photo and change
it in different ways. And if you swipe
your finger over, there are a bunch of
different options. And then once you tap
an option like light, all the tools will come
up and you can control the lighting and the way you
on when it comes to layout, what you really
want to understand is this bar down
here at the bottom. These are all your tools
and we're about to dive into every single one, starting with masking,
we're gonna make our way through
every single icon. And you're going to
learn how to use every single one properly to make stunning
photos on your phone.
5. Crop: Now that you know how to import and organize
your photos in R, a little bit familiar with
the layout of Lightroom. Let's now get our hands on the actual tools that we can use to manipulate our photos. The more we start using these, much more familiar you're going to become with the layout. The further we move
on in this class. Now if you're using your
phone to edit on Lightroom, the first two tools you're
going to see in the bottom row to the left are going to be the masking tool in
the healing tool. But we're going to
skip those for now and get back to them later because they're a little bit
more complicated. And there are some other
tools you need to know how to use first before we
can use those ones. Let's go ahead and skip
over to the cropping tool. Now, I'm going to be using
my iPad just so you can have a better viewing
experience of what I'm doing. So you don't have to just see my small little phone screen, but don't worry, everything
is exactly the same. I have all the same tools. You have. Just some of
the things might be in different areas and
out-of-order then on the phone. But when it comes to the tools in Lightroom on your phone, we're gonna be going left
to right of all the tools on the bar in the bottom when
you have a photo selected. So with that being cleared up, let's go ahead and select
the cropping icon. Once you select the
cropping icon right away, you're going to see a little box appear around your entire photo. This is the basic cropping
tool where we can just control the
shape of our photo, but it's going to stay in the original crop of the
photo when it was taken. At the bottom of the
photo you can see a little 0 with a degree
sign next to it. If we tap and move that, we can change the angle
of our entire photo. Now if we turn our attention to the right-hand panel
with these other tools, you can see up at the
top we have aspect. Now if we tap this, this is basically going to change the aspect of our frame, making it vertical
or horizontal. And right next to it
you can see where it says three times two. And if we tap that
little drop-down arrow, we can then choose
different presets in pre crops for our photo if
we want or if you want, you can go ahead
and tap custom and create a custom crop
for your photo. Once you do that,
simply just tap and drag your finger
wherever you want. Or if you want to
just start from scratch, simply tap original. Then below that we
have the options to rotate or flip our photo. Then right below that I think is one of the
most useful tools, which is the straighten tool. If you take a lot
of landscape photos in your horizon is
slightly off a little bit. If you tap that tool, Lightroom will do its best to straighten it out as smooth as it can and make your
photo completely level. If I tap it for this one, it
doesn't really do anything because there's not
really a horizon in it. But it is very useful
when it's needed. But that's pretty
much it when it comes to cropping in Lightroom Mobile.
6. Presets: The next tool we have is presets the icon with the two
overlapping circles. If we go ahead and tap that, this is basically going to
bring up a bunch of filters that Lightroom
gives you to choose from that you can
put on your photos. I'm not a huge fan of using these because I think
you can do a lot more editing your photo
from scratch and working your way up instead
of throwing a filter on it. But using a filter sometimes can really
help your photo in. It's a great place to start
when editing your photos. Adding presets to your photos isn't necessarily a bad thing. I just prefer not to
use them very much. But Lightroom has a bunch of different presets
you can choose from. As you can see, there are
premium presets that recommends what kind of preset you
should use depending on what type of
photo you're taking, a portrait, or food or
landscapes and stuff like that. Or if you tap on the
Recommended tab, Lightroom will show
you a few presets that it recommends for
your specific photo. And from there you can also filter through
different types you want in the recommended
presets, like subtle, strong in white balance and the list goes
on through cool, warm, dark, bright,
all that kinda stuff. So that's pretty much it
when it comes to presets. They're really nice to use, especially when you're first
starting out in Lightroom. You can just throw them on your photos and it makes
a world of difference. But later on in this class, I'm going to show you how
to make your own presets and create your own style
and save it as a preset.
7. Auto: Now moving our way
towards the right, the next icon in tool you're
gonna see is the auto tool. Basically all that does is
if you tap the Auto Icon, Lightroom is going to automatically
make some corrections to your photo that it
thinks looks the best. If your photos a
little underexposed or overexposed Lightroom
is going to make a few minor adjustments in, just give you a little help or boost to start out
editing your photo. So when we tap auto, you can see Lightroom made
a few minor adjustments to the photo and I can show
you the before and after. So you can really see just kinda brought those highlights
down a little bit in those shadows up and add
a little bit more color. Now I don't usually like to
use this in my final edit, but I do like to see
what Lightroom's suggest before I edit a photo, I will pop on the
auto to see what it will look like and where the
photo can potentially go.
8. Light: Next we have light. Now this is where things
get really hands-on in your photo will change a lot depending on what you adjust. So let's go ahead and tap the light icon and
it's going to drop down some bars that we can use to adjust our light
in different ways. First, immediately to the right, we have this little box
with this squiggly line. This is the tone curve. So if we go ahead and tap that, we can tap and drag your
finger up or down and it will change the
tone of the photo. Also, if you take a look
at the panel again, you can see there are
these colored circles, a red one, a green one, and a blue one, and a white one. This is going to change the tone of these
colors in the photos. For example, green. If we pull it down,
it's going to make it either very green or you can pull it down and make it purple. I don't use these too
much except for one. I wanted to do one certain thing which I call the
tone curve preset, which I'm going to
show you how to do at the end of this class, which is a great way
to instantly make any photo you have
look ten times better. But feel free to experiment
with the tone curves, especially the one to the
far left, the white circle, which is going to
control the tone of your whites and blacks and
shadows and highlights, as you can see when I
pull this down now, it makes my shadows a
lot deeper and darker. And if I pull this up, it makes my highlights
look a lot brighter. Now the tone curve definitely
isn't a tool for everyone, but definitely give it a try and experiment around with it. Next, moving on to
the bars below, first we have exposure, which is pretty simple. It just changes the
exposure of your photos. So if we drag it up, it's going to make our photo
really bright overexposed. And then if we drag it down, it's gonna make it really
dark and underexpose. So basically if you
take a photo and it was a little under overexposed, you can use this
bar to adjust that. Next below that
we have contrast. If we pull that up,
it's just going to up the entire overall
contrast of our photo, including the highlights
and shadows and colors. And we can pull it down to mu our photo a little
bit more as well. Next we have highlights. When we pull our
highlights down, you can see right
away the background. It doesn't look quite as
bright and overexposed. And if we pull it up, it looks very bright and overexposed. Basically highlights, controls how bright the
light looks in your photos, in the highest spots or
the lightest points, which is why they're
called highlights, basically controlling those. And then shadows is
basically the same thing. But for your shadows, if we pull this bar down, our shadows are going
to get very dark and just be a lot more
prominent in our photo. And if we pull it up, our
shadows are going to go away. And my opinion, it doesn't
look as good because I really liked that contrast between the highlights and the shadows. And then under
highlights and shadows, we have white and black, which are not the same as
highlights and shadows. Now the reason why you have these four separate
things is because, let's say for example, you have a overexposed
photos in the highlights are really bright or the
shadows are really dark. We can take our shadows in, lift them a little bit, and then take our
black and bring it down to balance it out. So that way it's making it so we can see what's in the shadows. And the photo still looks
dark and has nice contrast. Same thing with the highlights. You want to take your
highlights and lower than. You can see more detail in the highlights where the
photo was really bright. And then we're gonna take
our white and bump it up to add that punchy whiteness
back to our photo. I'll go ahead and take my
highlights and bring them down. And then I'm gonna take my
whites in a pull that up. If I go ahead and show
you the before and after, you can see it makes a pretty big difference
in just makes the photo look a lot more
rich and have more depth.
9. Color: Moving right along. Next, we have color
in the color menu. First of all, we
can automatically make our photo black
and white if we like. This little sign with the B and W stands for
black and white, we can tap that on. Our photo will completely be muted in stripped
of all its color, but simply tap it again
to add the color back. And once again, from there
below we have a row of different bars and
skills that we can adjust to change the color. Now the first one you
see is temperature, which is going to change the overall temperature
of our photo, making it warmer or colder, basically changing
the white balance. White balance is basically how warm your whites are or
how cold your whites are. If we go ahead and
drag our finger, we can control how warm it is. We'll bring it over to
the right and you can see our photo becomes very warm. And then if we bring
it over to the left or photo becomes very cold. Next below that we have tint, which is basically
the same thing but for green and purple, if we drag it over to the right, photo becomes more
purplish pink. If we drag it over
to the left or photo becomes more green, moving on down, then we have
vibrancy and saturation. Now, this is where
things can get a little bit dangerous when people
edit their photos, they really like to bump
up that saturation and make their photos look
a lot more colorful. Which is not a bad thing. You can definitely do that. But there's a sweet spot in balance because you
don't want to overdo it. If I bump my vibrancy and
saturation are really high, that just in my opinion, does not look good. The color is way too
intense and there are way too many super-strong
colors in it as well. What I like to do is bring
my vibrancy up a little bit and then bring my
saturation down a little bit, just a smidge, because vibrancy and saturation
are not the same thing. Vibrancy is, well how
vibrant your colors are. And then saturation is how saturated they are
with that color. How red is the red
and the photo or how green is that green? And then right below that
we have in my opinion, one of the best tools
in all of Lightroom, which is the Color Mixer. If we go ahead and tap
that rainbow wheel, it'll bring up our color mixer. And basically we can tap any
of these colored circles. We can manipulate that
color in our photo, in only that color in our photo. So for example, if we go
ahead and tap yellow in, take the saturation down, you can see all the yellow on our photo gets a very muted in the saturation goes away or that bluish purple
on the flower. If we go ahead and
select a blue in, pull the cursor to the hue
over to the turquoise side. You can see that bluish
purple in the flower is turning turquoise now in only
that color in our photo. So I really like using
this because like I said, you can get a
little carried away with bright colors
in your photos. But using the Color Mixer allows you to isolate one color in your photo and make
it the strongest and make it the more dominant
color in your photo. So if we go ahead and select yellow and bring the
saturation up in, take the hue to
the left side and make our yellow
look more orange. We can really make
this flower pop. And then if we go to
the orange and bring our hue over a
little bit too red, it just makes our flower, this bird of paradise, look even more colorful
and beautiful. But let's say there's
a color in your photo that isn't on one
of these circles. It's kind of a weird color. Well, you can go ahead and tap this little icon that looks
like a scope or a crosshair. And you can tap your
finger on a color. So for example, let's
go ahead and tap this teal color in
the background. As you can see, it
will show you on the color circles which
colors those are. It's saying it's has 27 points of teal and
two points of blue. So you're probably
going to want to use teal to change that color
more than anything. Finally, we have
the color grading. Color grading. Basically this is going
to choose the colors for our shadows and
highlights in overall photo. At the top you can
see you can choose between these
different greetings. So the first one says shadows, and we can drag our finger on this color wheel in our
shadows will be that color. If I want to make my shadows
nice and cool in blue, I can drag and drop my
finger right there. And now all the
shadows are going to have a blue tint to them. And below that you can
change the luminance, the blending and the
balance in same thing goes for mid tones
and highlights. With the highlights,
I want to make them a little bit warmer. So I'm going to drag my finger over two big yellow
and orange side. And now my highlights are really warm in my shadows are
a little bit cooler, so I have the best of both
worlds with the mid tones. I like to leave that alone
because I want the photo to still have somewhat
of its original color. And then finally
you have global, which is going to change the overall color of
the entire photo.
10. Effects: In our Effects tab, this is where we can make some
big changes to our photo. The first thing we
have is texture. Basically Lightroom's just
going to take the textures in, amp them up and just make them
look a bit more texturize. Next, right under
that is clarity, which is a lot of photographers favorite
thing to mess with in their photos because
clarity can make your picture look really good. Basically, what it
does is it kind of is a mixture between texture. In contrast, if we
pull our clarity up, you can see the overall
photo just looks a lot more sharper
in punchier and it has a lot more
contrast if you had to be careful with it because
sometimes you can overdo it. Next we have D Hayes. Basically, if you
take a photo in, it's pretty hazy or smoggy
or foggy on that day. You can use the dehaze bar and try to get rid of some of
the haze in your photos. Moving on, we now
have the vignette. So basically this is just
going to make a shadowy ring around your photo or you can create a light ring
around your photo. I recommend not
really ever using the light ring because I don't
think it looks very good. But using a shadow ring around your photo can make a photo
look really dramatic. It doesn't necessarily
work for every photo. But once you add a
vignette below that, you can control the midpoint. So how far in the vignette goes? You can control the roundness of it if you want it to be very round or if you wanted to kind of stay over in
the corners mostly. And you can choose how much
you want it to feather. You can have the edges
be super hard like that. Or you can have it
feather out a lot, which I think looks better because it looks a
lot more natural. And if you do choose
to add a vignette, you can also control the highlights in the
shadows of the vignette. So instead of it just being really dark around
all the edges, you can up the highlights so they stand out
a little bit more.
11. Detail: The next section of tools
we have is detailed. Now, detail is a area
I don't actually spend a whole lot of time when it
comes to editing my photos. But if we go ahead
and go into detail, you can see we have a few different bars
that we can adjust, such as sharpen, masking detail, radius, and noise reduction. Now, I don't use
these a whole lot, but they're pretty
self-explanatory. Things like sharpening in detail are just going
to make your photo look a bit more sharper in bringing out the
details a little bit more. But, but I tend to stay away from these not
because I don't like them, but I think the clarity bar
just does a better job. It takes care of it
a whole lot better. But that's just my
personal preference. But there is something
I want to turn your attention to that
is just below that, which is the noise reduction and the colored noise reduction. Now these are two very
helpful tools that you can use to eliminate some of
the noise in your photo. Now if you don't
know what noise is, noise is that little grainy
pixelated particle stuff you see in your photos. In this occurs when
you take a photo in a low-light condition in your ISO is a little
bit too high. That's when you're gonna
see this weird kind of colorful TV static
PFAS in your photos. Now when I decided
what photo to use to go through and show
you all the tools. I chose this photo specifically because it had a little
bit of noise in it. It was a little dark
when I took the photo and in the result
I got some noise. So using the noise
reduction can be good, but you don't want to use it too much because basically
what Lightroom does when you bump up the noise
is it basically just finds the noise in your photo in smooths it over in blurs it out. It doesn't actually
get rid of it. It just covers it with some
blurriness or smoothness. If I go ahead and bring the
noise reduction up to 100, you can see now the photo looks really smooth and it almost looks like a painting
and you lose a lot of detail in your photo. So you can use the
noise reduction. Just don't overdo
it because if there is noise on something
like your subject, it's going to lose a lot
of detail and sharpness. Next under that, we have
color noise reduction. Now colored noise reduction, you can use as much as you want because that gets rid of
the color in your noise. How I said there are little colorful
particles and the noise, this is just going to eliminate that and it's not
gonna smooth it over. We can go ahead and pull color noise reduction
up to 100%. And it's going to remove all
the color and the noise. I don't think there
was a whole lot in this photo in the first place, but we can just throw it
up there just in case.
12. Masking: Now that we've covered all
the basic tools in Lightroom, Let's go ahead and go back to the beginning
of the list where we skipped over the masking
tool in the healing tool. Now I should let you
know if you don't have the paid version
of Lightroom, you won't have access
to these tools, but you can still edit
amazing photos without them. So if we go ahead
and tap the icon of the gray circle with the
dotted line around it. This is going to bring
up our masking to now how the masking
tool works is basically you're creating multiple
layers where only certain things are going to be affected when you
change the edit. Let me go ahead and
show you what I mean. So if we go ahead and
tap this blue plus, it's going to bring
up a bunch of different options
that we can choose between to create
a masking layer. Let's go ahead and
do select subject. Once we select the
subject option, Lightroom is going
to do its magic and find what it thinks is
the subject in the photo. And usually it does
a pretty good job. So now you can see how the flower and some of
the leaves are read. Your photo isn't
messed up and now red. This is just showing
you what is selected. The highlighted area
is going to now be affected and only the highlighted red area
when you make an edit. If we go ahead and tap a light
and bring our exposure up, you can see only that
area is being affected. But let's say you don't want
that big leaf to the left of the flower to be a part
of this masking layer. If we go ahead and
tap the minus and plus sign symbol
above our layer, it's going to ask
us if we want to add or subtract from this layer, we're going to go ahead
and choose a subtract. And it's going to ask us
which tool we want to use, and we're going
to use the brush. Once you have the
brush selected, you can then choose
how big you want it or how soft you
want the edge to b. Then simply just use your
finger in color in the leaf or the area that you do not want affected in this masking layer. Once you're finished, go
ahead and just tap done. And then if we go back into that masking layer and
change the exposure, you can see that
leaf is no longer affected and no longer a
part of that masking layer. But for this photo, I want to bring the exposure
up just a tiny bit on the flower and then bring
that contrast up as well, just to make it pop off
this photo a bit more. But let's go ahead and
tap the plus sign again and see what other options
we have right below. Select Subject, you
have select Sky, which is basically
the same exact thing, but Lightroom finds the sky in your photo and selects that
and creates a masking layer. This is really nice if
your sky is overexposed, you can easily change the exposure and make
your sky look much nicer and dramatic or bluer wherever you
want to do to it. Below that we have the brush, which is what I just
used to get rid of some of the masking layer
on the subject layer, you can just use a
brush and color in any area you want and
it'll become a layer. And then below that we have at linear and radial gradients. We go ahead and tap
linear gradient. Basically it's just
going to bring a big wall if we tap
and drag our finger, and then we can let go. And let's go ahead and
bring our exposure down. And only that area is
going to be affected, but it's slowly going to radiate off in back
into the normal photo. But let's go ahead and do
a radial gradient now. And it's gonna be
the same thing, but it's going to be a circle. We can tap and drag
our finger and create any shape of circle
or oval we want. And now the edits
we make will only be affected in that area. This is a really nice tool for editing things like
faces or eyes. You can go ahead and
just pop that on a really quick and make the edits. Masking layers can be a
little confusing at first, but once you get
the hang of them, they can really make a big
difference in your photos.
13. Healing: The next more advanced
tool is going to be the spot healing brush or
just the Healing Brush. And that tool is going to be the icon that looks
like a little band-aid. So if we go ahead and tap that, what we're gonna
see are some bars were we can adjust the size, feather, and opacity
of this tool. But first, let me show you
what it actually does. Up in the top, this little drop-down next to
where it says clone, you have the option to choose
between clone in heel. I usually like to use the
heel and I'll show you why. So let's go ahead and find something in this photo
we want to try to remove, Let's go ahead and try to remove this stem in the
middle of this leaf. If we go ahead and
drag our finger along that leaf with our brush, Lightroom is pretty much
going to copy and paste to what's around it and
put it in that area. Now you can see that stem is completely gone from that leaf. But I will warn
you that the more complicated thing you're trying to remove from your photo, the harder it's going to be. The Healing Brush is kind of Lightroom's
little sliver of Photoshop on the app. And it can work well, but sometimes it can
have a little bit of a difficult time depending on what you're trying to remove. It's really only meant for
small things like that. Or for example, this little
water droplet on that leaf. It can go ahead and remove that. No problem. But sometimes it does
something like that. Grabs from an area
that you don't want, you can go ahead and tap the
air that it's grabbing from and just move it over and it will sample from
a different area. Now when you're in
that tool in an ask what size and feather
and capacity you want, you can basically just
change all those elements to the brush size when you're
using the healing tool.
14. Optics: So we just jumped back to the beginning of the
list to those two tools. Now we're going back to the original order and
next we have optics. If we go ahead and tap optics, you only have two
options in this tab, which is to remove CA, which is chromatic aberrations. And basically what
that's going to do is if you go ahead
and check this on, Lightroom is going to look for any weird reflections or light flares in your
photo and remove them. And then you have
enabled lens correction. Now, when you take photos, depending on what lens you use can have a big distortion in your photo if you're
using something like a fisheye lens or a
really wide angle lens, it can distort your photo. Sometimes it using this
is going to correct that if you ever
find yourself with those problems and if
you're using the iPhone, you're probably never
going to have that issue. So they're there
if you need them. But I usually don't
use them that much because when I take photos, the distortion isn't
a big enough issue that I can notice.
15. Geometry: The final tool we
have is geometry. Now in the geometry tabs, this is going to
make it so we can manipulate the
geometry of our photo. If we go ahead and go
to the distortion bar, we can go ahead
and pull that up. And it will distort our photo. Kind of pulling it in and pinching it in the
middle where we can bring it the other
way and it will blow it up in the middle. Then below that we
have different things like vertical where
it'll stretch it vertically or horizontally where it will warp it horizontally. We can rotate it. We can change the aspect of it. And we can even change the scale and kind of zoom
in a little bit more. Now the photo looks completely wonky now
and totally weird. And you might be thinking, what's the benefit of this? Well, I really like
to use it when I take photos of things like
mountains or buildings, you can use the
Vertical Distortion and make the mountains
are building just look a lot taller and make
it look like they're protruding up into the
sky quite a bit more. So let's say we use the vertical bar and stretch
our photo vertically. We can then go ahead and tap
the constant crop checkbox. And it will automatically
crop in and fix itself so you don't see
the white on the edges.
16. Versions: Now, moving on to our
more practical tools that don't actually
change the photo. These are just tools that are really helpful,
inconvenient. And the next thing we
have is version two, which is going to
be the icon with the little clock symbol that has an arrow
going around it. If we go ahead and tap that, you can see we have our current edits and that's
what it's on right now. Then below that we have original and we can go
ahead and tap that. And it's going to show us what the photo looks like
back at the original. And we can go ahead
and tap Apply, and it will just
completely started over. But if we go ahead and
tap auto next two named, this is going to show us
auto saves that Lightroom made as we were editing our
photo and we can go back. So for example,
it says March 4th and it says the time we can go back to that edit
or the one above. And that's what it looked like when Lightroom
made an auto save. Now you don't really
want to use these because it just
randomly saves it. And when you get on and off
or end editing session, you can go back to named
in go-to current Edit, and then up at the top where it says Create version in blue. We can go ahead and tap that and it's going to ask us
to name it and we can create a version and it will stay there in our versions. If we want to save
this edit and then create a version and
then try something new, a different style,
and we don't like it. We can always go
back to this Edit. You can see right there where it says Untitled, March 12th. That is our edit right there. And we can go ahead and start
editing a different thing. And if we want to go back, we come back to our versions, go to that edit and hit Apply.
17. Copy & Paste Settings: You now know how
to save your edit and then go back to it
on a certain photo. But let's say you want to move this edit onto another photo. I'm going to show you
how to copy and paste your settings and move them
to any photo you want. So if we go ahead and tap the three little dots up in
the top right-hand corner. We can go ahead and
tap Copy Settings. It's going to ask us what
elements we want to copy. So you're going
to want to choose pretty much everything if
you want the entire edit. But you can pick and
choose what you want. So if you want, you can get rid of
light color in, keep everything
else and you simply just have to check the boxes. But we're gonna go ahead and
check everything excluding the masking layers because the masking layers are going to be specific to that photo. Most likely. You're probably not going to
want to keep those on along with the healing in
potentially the crop. So I think this looks good. All the basic ones, we're going to go ahead
and tap the check. And it says Settings
Copy to Clipboard. And then let's go ahead and
go to a different photo. We're going to tap the
same three little dots up in the top right-hand corner. And this time we're going
to tap Paste Settings. And that looks awful, but those were the
settings on this photo. That looks pretty bad. But that's what it looks
like on that photo. Let's go ahead and swipe to the left and see what it
looks like on this photo, which is the same
picture, just vertical. And that looks a lot better. You can see there's some
white in the bottom. So let's go ahead and go into
geometry and fix that crop. So basically it looks just like that photo just without
the masking layers. And this is really
good if you have a lot of photos that
are very similar. Or for this example, we have this photo which
is in a landscape crop and then we have the same flower
but in a vertical crop, instead of reediting
the entire photo, you can just copy and
paste your settings.
18. Export Your Photos: All right, So at this point we've gone through all
the tools and you've edited your photo and you're
ready to export your photo. What we're going to do
is go ahead and tap the Export icon that's just left of the three little dots. Will go ahead and tap that. And it's going to ask
where you want to send it. Now on my screen, don't worry about the edit
in Photoshop in some of the other things because on a phone you're not going
to have that option. Basically all we
wanted to look at is export to camera roll
and export the files. You can export it to your files, just how you can
take things from your files onto Lightroom. So basically you
just want to send it to your camera rural on your phone or send it to
a file in your Cloud. We'll go ahead and just
tap Export to camera roll. And it'll go ahead and do its thing and send
it right over. Or if you want to customize your export
a little bit more, you can go down to the
bottom and tap Export As. And you can choose what type
of file you want it to be. You can do a DNG, a TIF, or a JPEG, or you can keep the
original which will be a raw photo if you took
your photo in raw. But I recommend just choosing
the JPEG every time. And then for the dimensions, you can make it a smaller
file if you want, you have custom, small or large. I just choose large. So my photo can be
the highest quality. And then you have image
quality, it's set to 80. You can go to a 100% or lower
to get the highest quality. Once again, then once
you're done, just tap, check and it will be sent
to your camera rule.
19. How to Instantly Make Your Photos Look Better: In this lesson, I
want to quickly show you one of
my methods that I use to instantly give my photos of boost when
I start editing them. Now before when we were editing, I showed you the ability to use the auto tool up in the
top right-hand corner. We can go ahead and tap auto and Lightroom will do
what it thinks it looks best to adjust your photo
and autocorrect some things. This method that I use is
combined with the auto tool. So let's go ahead and go back and go to our original photo. And we're gonna go ahead
and come into light in, use the tone curve. What we're gonna do is these
three circles of color, the red, green, and blue. We're gonna go into each one
and create a slight S-curve. So we're gonna go ahead and come to this point right here, kind of in the x of these Foursquare's and bring it
down just a little bit, staying on this line. Then we're gonna go
over here and do the same thing in
bringing it up, we'll go ahead and
go to yellow or green and do the
same exact thing. Now I know what you're thinking. This is not looking good, but just bear with
me until we're done. We're gonna go ahead and
do the same exact thing on all three of them. And once we've done that, this is what we have. This is the original photo and this is what it
looks like after. So you can see it is
a very nice boost it when it comes to contrast
and the overall colors, they're not oversaturated, but there are a lot more vibrant. And you can say that the barn or the cabin looks a
little bit too dark. But just because we put
this tone curve on, doesn't mean we're finished. Once you've created this, you can go ahead and click the three little dots up in
the top right-hand corner. In create a preset. You can go ahead and
tap Create Preset and it's going to ask
you what you want in it. We just want to
make sure we have the light because that's
where the tone curve is. And it's going to go ahead
and ask you to name it. And I would suggest just
naming it tone curve. And then once you
do that, you can go ahead and throw this on every photo you start editing in Lightroom
and see how it looks. Now I don't use this on every photo because sometimes
it doesn't work well. But most of the time it's a really nice preset you can put on your
photo to get started. If I were editing this
photo in getting started, let's say I just
put this preset on. I would then go to auto and
see what Lightroom's suggest. Then I'll go back and
make my own adjustments. So I think the sky is definitely a little
bit too blown out, so I'm going to bring those
highlights down so we can see some more detail and see
those clouds a bit better. And I'm going to bring
those shadows up to so we can see some more
detail on the barn. I might bring my exposure
down just a smidge. Then let's bring
these whites up. And it bring our blacks down to get that contrast
back in our photo. Now let's go ahead and
see a before and after. As you can see, that is just
a huge world of difference. The photo looks so much
more alive enrich, instead of the flat raw
photo we have here. If you have those
presets created, the tone curve preset, you can edit your photo
and instead of making that S curve on all of
those every single time, we can go ahead and
just tap presets. And our presets are right here. I have tone curve one, which is the tone curve but
just barely atone curve, nice, super severe one. And then I have tone
curve to which is a really strong and dramatic. And I'll use them
and see what they look like on both pictures. Because some of them can use for a much
stronger tone curve. And some of them,
you're only going to want a very minimal effect. But what I mean by
stronger tone curve is on the first one, I only brought it
down to about here. On the stronger one, I bring it about halfway on
this cube on both sides. And I do that for
every single one, which will give you a
much stronger effect. So you don't have to do this, but I definitely
recommend it and it's something I
really liked doing, creating this tone curve and making a preset for it and just thrown it on my
photos when I start editing and see how it looks.
20. Developing Your Own Style: So you've been
editing your photos, you know all the tools
and how Lightroom works. But now you want to develop your own style and your
own look in your pictures. You want people to look at your photos and know that that's your photo based off of how it looks and the edit and feel. Well, this is going
to come over time. The more you edit and the
more you experiment and find out what you like and how to use the tools even more. Your style is going
to come, don't worry, but there are a few
things that you can do to help develop
your style a little bit quicker and find things in elements you like
and incorporate them in. The number one thing
that you can do is try to copy edits that you
like on other photos. If you're on Instagram or on some sort of
social media platform and you see a photo with a really nice edit
that you really like, just try your best
to copy that edit. And if you're worried
that you're going to be some sort of
copycat and you don't want all your photos
to look exactly the same like everyone else's
or like this person's. You want your own unique
look to your photos. Don't worry, because
it's gonna be pretty much almost impossible to exactly nail the other person to edit unless you're using
one of their presets. And when I started
developing my style, I didn't just use elements from one other
person that I liked. I used the elements
from a bunch of different photographers
and things I liked in their edits and
incorporated my own. So don't worry, your style
is going to come over time, but try your best
to copy things and take elements from other
photographers that you like.
21. Create Your Presets: So once you get to a point where you've developed
a style that you like and want to save it on
your iPad or your phone, or just in Lightroom, you can create your own preset. And I know I showed
you how to do this a couple of lessons ago, but I quickly went over it, but I'm gonna show you
exactly how to do that. Here I have this
photo of the barn and I'm really happy with this edit and the colors and how it looks. So I want to create
a preset of it, but we want to make
sure we are in the toolbar where we're
actually editing things. Once we have this open up, we'll tap the three
little dots up in the top right-hand corner
and then tap Create Preset. Then it's going to ask
you everything you want included in this preset. So a light color effects. And then from there
you can even go in there and choose exposure
contrast highlights. You can exclude or
include anything you'd like to customize your
preset as much as you want. But I'm gonna go
ahead and name this. Why you only and then hit Done. Then once you have everything
checked in the name, you're just going to tap the
little checkmark above that. You now have your
preset and you can create as many of
these as you want. And it's really useful
to create preset for, let's say you go on a trip to the desert
and everything is really sandy and all your landscape photos
look really similar. Well, you can edit one
of your photos and create a preset and then put that preset on your
other desert photos that look really
similar to that one, same with other
things like forests or cityscapes and
stuff like that.
22. Tips & Tricks: Now before I send you off and you're all done
with this class, I want to go over
a few helpful tips and tricks that you
can use while using Lightroom that you may not
have known about and will make your experience using
Lightroom a lot more easy. In case I didn't go over
this as plainly as I could. I know I did it a lot throughout this lesson or
throughout this class. If you are editing a photo, you can simply tap and hold your finger on the screen
and it will show you the original photo so you can see how much you edit
has affected your photo. And then simply just let go and it'll throw your edit back on and you can hold and let go and do that as much as you want. I use this feature all the time and it comes
in handy a lot. Next, when you export a photo, you actually have the option to add a watermark if you want. So if we go ahead
and go and export this photo and go to Export As it's going to ask
us if we want to include a watermark right
there where it says watermark, just tap that little check and then we can go ahead and
come down to customize. Going to ask you if you want
to add a text or graphic. If you want to add a graphic, you can then choose a file from your computer or phone
and add a little graphic, maybe your little logo
or something like that. Or you can go to text in, just write something
in and you can adjust the opacity size and how big it is in
place it anywhere on your photo if you're
into watermarks, this is a great option for you. Next, another handy
tip if we go and tap the little drop-down icon where it says edit up in the top left. We'll go ahead and
tap that and we can come down in tap info. We tap info, it's
going to show us all the information about
the photo when we took it. So it's going to tell me
what camera I took it with, which was a Canon EOS R6. It's gonna say it was at 33 millimeters when I took
this photo and I took it with the RF f5 dash
35-millimeter F2.8 lens. And it's going to say
what the dimension is. It's 23.5 MB and a
bunch of pixels, so it's pretty high-quality. And you can go ahead and just
see all the information. And just below that, you can also see it was taken a one-one thousandth
of a second, and it was taken an f 2.8
and the ISO is set to 500. And another tip
while we're here, you can see these row of
five-stars and then the flags. You can actually flag this
photo or rate this photo five-stars and radian
it five-stars is really helpful because when you're going through all your photos, you can sort by rating. And you can see that this
photo has five-stars. Let's say you're doing
a portrait shoe of a couple and you have
hundreds of photos of them. And you just want to go
through and rate the ones that you want to edit five-stars instead of going back
through and thinking, oh, which one's, which ones? While I do it again,
you can just five-star then and scroll through and
see those ones and edit them. Finally, a neat little thing
you can do with Lightroom. I don't know how practical
or useful this is, but it is something pretty cool that a lot of
people don't know about. If we go ahead and tap the
three little dots once again, you can go ahead and
tap start slideshow. And basically it's just going to start a little slideshow of all your photos in
whatever album you're in, and it will just go through
and play through all of them. But to start out, we have to actually press Play. Once you do, it will just
go through all your photos. It could be pretty useful if you want to make a YouTube video. You can just screen record your phone
and press plate and it'll go through
all your photos instead of actually having
to go into editing software and doing it yourself. But that is it for
tips and tricks. And I hope that a few
of those will be useful to you in your journey
and using Lightroom.
23. Conclusion: Thank you so much for taking your time in watching my class. It really means a lot that you watched all the way
to the very end. I just want to let
you know if you have not seen my other class, which is all about taking photos with nothing
but your iPhone. So how to take really nice photos without
an expensive DSLR camera? I have a class that's
all about that. And when I made that
class in this class, I had both of them in mind. I wanted to pair them together. So once you learn how to take better photos
with your phone, you can then learn how to
edit them on your phone. But if you found yourself in this class first,
that's totally fine. But I think the other
class would be really beneficial if you're still taking photos with your iPhone. It's packed full of information on how to take
better photos with your camera on your
iPhone and how to take professional
looking photos. When you're done
with that class, your friends and family are
going to be blown away with the photos that you were able to capture with nothing
but your iPhone. But anyways, thank you so
much for taking my class. Do you want to see more of my
videos and more tutorials? Please go to my YouTube
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and I will see you later.
Quinton Batchelor, Photographer
