Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
Lesson 14 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
Lesson 14 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
14. Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
Lessons
Introduction
01:02 2Finding the Light
01:12 3Crafting Composition
00:49 4Histogram and Spot Metering
01:50 5ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
02:49 6Taking the Shot
02:12 7Capturing an HDR Image
02:23 8Shooting in Manual Mode Recap
01:18Introduction to Lightroom:
00:51 10Lightroom: Importing Albums and Organization
01:53 11Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking Images
01:11 12Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:03 13Lightroom: Color Profiles
01:17 14Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
01:47 15Lightroom: Gradients
01:21 16Lightroom: Brush Tool
00:56 17Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
01:07 18Lightroom: Contrast, Exposure and Saturation
01:00 19Lightroom: Healing Brush to Remove Objects
03:39 20Lightroom: Export and Share
00:46 21Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
03:32 22Photoshop: Stamp Tool
01:11 23Photoshop: Dodge and Burn
02:07 24Photoshop: Basic Adjustments
01:02 25Photoshop: Adding Clouds
01:54 26Photoshop: Quick Selection Tool
02:36 27Photoshop: Sharing your Images
00:34Lesson Info
Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
So the first thing I'm gonna do is usually the auto tries to brighten things up a little bit more than I like them to be brightened up. And so I'll usually take the shadows or the black down a little bit. So I'm just gonna take the shadow areas of the photograph down just a little bit. So it's a little bit more natural. And the black down just a little bit. And that gives me a much more realistic version of what I saw in front of me. So you can tweak those individual sliders and each one of these sliders deals with a different portion of your photograph. The other thing that you might wanna do is come into the color area here. And play around with your temperature because temperature is, that's a very personal decision. Whether you like things a little warmer, a little cooler. So play with that temperature. I tend to like mine a little bit warmer. And then I'm also going to come down into the color mixer. If your color mixer isn't showing, you simply click on this little color wheel ic...
on and that will bring up your color mixer. And I'm gonna do something really wonderful with the colors by just playing around with the color mixer. I'm gonna click on the blues and I want the blues to be a little richer. So I'm gonna take the luminesce or the brightness of the blues down so as I drag this down you can see that the sky and the water are just deepening up their saturation. But notice that I'm not using the saturation knob to do that. It's actually more realistic when you take the brightness of a color down. It creates a much richer color. You don't need to actually go in and tweak the saturation itself. You can if you want to but the luminesce is usually the tool to start with.
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James Kitt
I wish more people would present this way! Each step from beginning to end demonstrated in short, concise and useful actions. Every tool and technique is something that I either use, (now better) or will start using because I now understand how to use it efficiently. I highly recommend this course!
Fauzan Pojam
Finally, a video tutorial that taught me what I've known on basic level and truly explore how to use it properly and what everything means. I've been waiting for something like this for awhile now. Greatly improves my technique now so thank you for this!
Angie Purcell
Great class wi with tons of helpful hints for both Lightroom and Photoshop.
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