Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Effects
Lesson 11 from: Lightroom CC: Organizing Your Digital Photo LifeJared Platt
Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Effects
Lesson 11 from: Lightroom CC: Organizing Your Digital Photo LifeJared Platt
Lesson Info
11. Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Effects
Lessons
Class Introduction
02:25 2Creative Cloud Construct
31:15 3Lightroom Classic vs. Lightroom CC
11:16 4Importing and Organization
10:06 5Folder and Album Creation
03:08 6Image Selection
25:17 7Connectivity and Data
14:29 8Finding Images in Lightroom CC
12:05Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Light
17:17 10Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Color
09:34 11Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Effects
03:25 12Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Optics
03:46 13Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Crop and Straighten
03:32 14Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Clone and Healing Brush
11:21 15Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Gradient Tool
07:03 16Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Radial Filter and Brush Tool
17:38 17Working With Presets
13:17 18Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Geometry
09:44 19Going Beyond Lightroom CC Into Photoshop
06:37 20Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Dehaze Tool
12:37 21Photoshop Connection
07:07 22Lightroom CC Mobile
14:46 23Lightroom CC - Mobile: Settings
11:11 24Lightroom CC- Mobile: Basic Editing
08:04 25Lightroom CC- Mobile: Localized Adjustments
12:03 26Lightroom CC- Mobile: Curves
04:04 27Lightroom CC - Mobile: Cropping and Gradients
05:00 28Lightroom CC - Geometry
07:38 29Lightroom CC : Keywords and Tracking Images
13:48 30Using Lightroom Mobile Camera
14:05 31Lightroom Mobile: Importing Images
20:34 32Lightroom CC - Mobile: Color and Brightness
31:17 33Sharing Images on CC / Web / Mobile
07:31 34Sharing Images Using Adobe Spark
07:08 35How to Use Adobe Spark Post
06:23 36Sharing Albums in Lightroom CC
06:00 37Editing in Lightroom Classic
14:45 38Sharing Images From Lightroom Classic
21:40 39Differences Between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC
11:14 40Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC Q&A
19:33Lesson Info
Basic Editing in Lightroom CC: Effects
In our effects panel is where we see dehaze, clarity and vignetting. Vignetting is something that just happens to the whole photograph. You can see that, or you can go the opposite direction. Now this is a very eighties thing to do. Right, in the 1980s my mom sent me to some photographer in the next town over, 'cause we grew up in a town that didn't have a photographer, 'cause we only had cows in our town. And so, this is what you would do, you would go to the photographer, and the photographer would put vaseline all over his lens, and you would come home with something that looked like that. And then, in the nineties we did this, and we darkened all of it. Now we do this, like that. The purpose of this vignetting tool, is that all of your lenses and your cameras have a natural vignetting that happens, because your lens is actually casting a round projection into your camera. And sometimes, the chip, or the piece of film is wider than the projection that the lens makes, and so it start...
s to darken at the corners. And so, the vignetting is to help to get rid of that natural darkening that happens. So depending on the quality of your lens, and the quality of your camera, you'll get more or less of that vignetting. So, if you need to combat it, that's what it's for. Now dehaze and clarity are tools to help sharpen up an image. Clarity is one of those things that you can use all the time, just to kind of pop things out. So like, if you look at the couple, that's what's normal, and if I want to soften them up, and make it look like it's a little bit more, a little bit of an eighties effect, I can go like this, and I can soften. If I go like that, see how all of the details in her face go away, it looks horrible, but that's what happens. What it's doing is it's taking all the shadows and bringing them up, and all the highlights and bringing them down, until they're perfectly even. Which means there's nothing there, there's no detail. Whereas, if you go the opposite direction, then it's taking all the shadows and intensifying them and the highlights and intensifying them in the mid-tones and it's creating a ghastly look there too. 100% either way is bad, but sometimes if you just go up a little bit, like maybe 10 or 15, that's actually quite nice. It helps to pop things out. Or if you go down five or six, that helps to soften people's skin up, and make them look prettier. So I am gonna go up about five or six. And then dehaze is a whole different tool, and we'll show you that a little bit later, when we edit another photo. But, dehazing is to help to cut through fog, smog, those types of things, as well as it will cut through like glare on glass - things like that. So, if you should've used a polarizer filter, to get through the glass, dehaze will sometimes help you get through glass that has glare on it. So it's just an intense way of creating contrast, and that helps bring things out. I'll show you that in effect later. It will be of no value in this photograph.
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Ratings and Reviews
JennMercille
This class blew my mind! As a full-time professional photographer, with a very complicated workflow (that is next to impossible to explain to my assistant) I cannot express how essential this class is to overhauling and simplifying my workflow. I am so excited to finally be able to split my workflow between multiple laptops and work stations WITHOUT having to build a server at my studio. I love that I now have a framework to start building a new organizational and backup system that I can easily train others on, and mobilize quickly. With all of the changes and improvements that Adobe is bringing to Lightroom CC & Classic, this class is integral to understanding and utilizing the program to its fullest potential! Jared Platt is a wonderful teacher and this class especially is perfect for novices and seasoned professionals alike!
a Creativelive Student
I was lucky enough to participate in-studio for this class. Jared is a great presenter and broke down the complicated Lightroom CC vs. Lightroom Classic changes. His conversational style of presenting kept things interesting and participants involved. This course was much more than just learning what the programs do. Jared walked through sample workflows to show when and why you would use the multitude of sliders and editing tools within the program. The course is worth every penny! Topics will remain pertinent well after newer versions of Lightroom CC and Classic are released.
JEnnifer GJestson
Jared explains the new Lightroom CC and the Creative Cloud so clearly and technically. My whole photo life has been turned into an organized system. Simplicity. I highly recommend you buy this course bc there is so much info in it you will not be able to do it all in one sitting without having to go back and review a chapter.
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