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The Complete Lightroom Mobile Class: Edit Like a Pro on Your Phone

teacher avatar Quinton Batchelor, Photographer

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      2:24

    • 2.

      Import Your Photos

      2:27

    • 3.

      Organization

      0:18

    • 4.

      Lightroom Mobile Layout

      1:57

    • 5.

      Crop

      3:08

    • 6.

      Presets

      1:34

    • 7.

      Auto

      1:02

    • 8.

      Light

      4:16

    • 9.

      Color

      5:37

    • 10.

      Effects

      2:07

    • 11.

      Detail

      2:51

    • 12.

      Masking

      4:00

    • 13.

      Healing

      2:00

    • 14.

      Optics

      1:04

    • 15.

      Geometry

      1:23

    • 16.

      Versions

      1:51

    • 17.

      Copy & Paste Settings

      2:10

    • 18.

      Export Your Photos

      1:40

    • 19.

      How to Instantly Make Your Photos Look Better

      4:15

    • 20.

      Developing Your Own Style

      1:45

    • 21.

      Create Your Presets

      1:40

    • 22.

      Tips & Tricks

      4:01

    • 23.

      Conclusion

      2:24

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About This Class

In my mobile Lightroom class I’ll show you everything you need to know to make breathtaking and professional looking edits with nothing more than your iPhone or iPad. We’ll start out by learning the layout of the software and how to import your photos. I’ll show you how to create albums and folders to stay organized throughout your journey using Lightroom. We’ll then dive deep into every single tool and icon Lightroom has to offer showing you when and where each tool should be applied. Once you have a grip on the software I’ll show you some very helpful features that will make your editing experience a breeze. And then we’ll talk about you developing your own style and how to create presets to save it! Thai class is full of helpful information that's going to make you an amazing editor. When I became a photographer I started out editing on my phone for years and still use an iPad, so I know first hand it's possible to create professional looking edits on your phone. So what are you waiting for? Let's get started!

Who is this class for?

  • Beginners who have little to no experience with Lightroom mobile and want to master the software.
  • Anyone who wants to take their Instagram or any other social media to the next level by creating a much more aesthetically pleasing page.
  • Anyone who isn't ready to drop a ton of cash buying a computer or iPad to edit on!

What will you learn?

  • How to import your photos from your camera roll or iCloud.
  • How to create folders and albums to keep Lightroom organized.
  • You'll understand the layout of Lightroom and where everything is located.
  • You’ll learn how to use the crop tool.
  • How to apply Lightroom presets.
  • How to use the auto feature.
  • How to adjust and manipulate light in your photos.
  • How to adjust and manipulate color in your photos.
  • How to apply and adjust various effects.
  • How to add, minus, and enhance detail.
  • How to create multiple masking layers.
  • How to remove elements from a photo using the healing tool.
  • How and when you should use optics to correct lens aberrations.
  • How to chand the geometry of your photo.
  • How to create different versions of your edit so you can try different looks.
  • How to copy your edit and apply it to different photos.
  • I’ll show you how to use the tone curve to instantly enhance your photos.
  • You’ll learn the steps you should take to develop your own editing style.
  • How to create your own presets to apply to future photos.
  • And various tips and tricks to make your experience with Lightroom smooth and efficient. 

Class Project:

For your project use your new set of skills and knowledge to edit a photo in Lightroom, create a preset and share that photo in the gallery. I can't wait to see all your amazing shots!

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Quinton Batchelor

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Hi, I'm Quinton! I'm an avid outdoors photographer and explorer and have been taking pictures for years. I've worked professionally taking photos but my true passion lies in teaching what I love to others. In my younger days of photography I spent countless hours scouring the internet trying to learn the secrets of photography. I just wish there was one place where I could learn everything I needed to know and explain in terms I could understand. My goal is to give you exactly that, I want to help you knock down barriers and master the world of photography. Also check out my Instagram where I have all my work!

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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 channel and subscribe where I do weekly videos of tutorials. Sometimes we just have some fun. 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