Lessons
Primer and Intro Must Watch
35:14 290 Second Advanced Edit On Signature Color Image
05:24 3Soft Skin Color
07:15 490 Second Advanced Edit On Soft SkinColor
04:27 5Vivid Color
11:28 6Black Crush
08:40 7Vivid Black Crush
07:55 8Glam Ciolor
05:562 Minute Advanced Edit On Glam Color
06:21 10HDR Natural Color
07:12 11HDR Vivid Color
08:17 12Soft Pastel Color
07:57 13Signature Soft B&W
09:18 14Vivid B&W
09:53 15Clack Crush B&W
08:45 16Vivid Crush B&W
07:43 17Glam B&W
08:07 18HDR B& W
08:14 19Fuj i400h
09:41 20Fuji 400h Plus HDR Fade
11:45 21Fuji 400h Plus Rich Tones
06:03 22Fuji 400h Plus Rich Matte
06:25 23Kodak Portra 800
10:09 24Kodak Portra 800 HDR Fade
07:55 25Kodak Porta 800 Rich Tones
07:21 26Kodak Portra 800 Rich Matte
07:20 27Illford HP5 Black Crush
10:12 28Illford HP5 Lifted Matte
07:41 29Ilford HP5 Deep Black Matte
09:01Lesson Info
HDR Natural Color
welcome to the HDR natural color. Why do I feel like I sound like the movie got right now? Yes, the NPR natural color 12th mixology, where we're going to create this preset to take your image from this to this in one simple click. And the cool thing is is, we're gonna create the preset in less than 10 seconds, and then we're gonna apply it to four other images. We're gonna develop all of my images, each in less than 10 seconds apiece. We might do a little bit of advanced editing on top of that as well. And we're gonna walk through this little tutorial, so let's get started now. I'm going to select all of my images by pressing control A and then pressing command shift. Our or control shift are if you're on a PC, and then we're gonna jump into the develop module so you guys can see everything is reset out, and what we'll do is again when creating presets. I would recommend that you guys dialing and approximate exposure an approximate white balance. I'm gonna leave it right about here. I ...
am gonna correct my just my rotation a little bit And if you'd like for images like this where I can see a bend on the horizon, I might just go ahead and add in profile corrections into that so I can have a nice straight horizon line. Okay, So what I want to do with the HDR natural color preset is I want a nice, beautiful HDR look, But I want to have an overall natural kind of color tone to it. So it's open up our foundation. We're gonna put seconds on the clock. Yes, I could sit closer, and then we're gonna go ahead and I'm gonna select natural color plus skin d sat because HDR can kind of get your skin tones a little bit gnarly. Then we're gonna go hdr Plus Plus, we're not gonna go fully out. But this does drop overall contrast. Although it does bring back all of our tone or really, from there is bring back our contrast and add a little tiny bit of D Hayes. And what that D Hayes does is it just pulls backs on the contrast. So we add back contrast, primary with just a full on contrast boost, and then we add back a little bit of D. Hayes effect. That's going to kind of boost. Overall, Conradt's a little bit. It's kind of a nice is actually a light room CC tool. So if you're using light room six, you might not have the details, but that's OK. It'll still look very similar without it, it just is gonna pull back. A little bit of contrast with that D hazing effect. Looks kind of nice. We're done creating are presets. So at this point, what we would do is save out that preset. Now, again, you have the preset system, so this is included under HDR natural color. But if you did want to save it out would create a new preset. By clicking this little plus button, we'd go down, select everything except for white balance exposure. We'd leave out graduated filters and radios, and we also de select everything the lens corrections except for commanded aberration. Pick wherever you want to save it, and the name in the mixology folder and then plaice press, create, hit cancel, cause we don't need to save it. So that is our present Now. The cool thing is, is that for images like this, we can leave them warm, or we can also cool them down and have a really interesting effects with them. I love this image. Kind of cool down just a little bit. And what I might do here is just put in a radio filter. We're gonna use that same burn brush and just do a little bit of a burn right there. And I'm just going to bring back the effect just a little bit, so I like that. Does it kind of brings an attention to them and check this out. This looks loverly. I love that effect. You can choose whether you want to save that profile correction or not within the preset. All right, let's go to another image again, This type of effect, it works beautifully over images that have all the tonal range there. So if you look at these hissed a grams, we're preserving as much tone as possible, where maximising dynamic range in a single raw file. So when we click that preset, it really brings a lot back. So what I'm gonna do here is just go ahead and adjust that crop real fast. We're gonna press HDR natural color and all I gotta do from here is a just my temperature sums gonna pull that temperature back a little bit. So it's a little more natural right about there. Bring up the exposure a little bit, and then we're gonna drop in another radio filter. And again, we are done with this image. Okay? Once again, less than 10 seconds went from that to this gorgeous. All right, let's do another one. This one. I'm gonna go ahead and correct that horizon line. And they were gonna drop in the same eastern natural color. I love the natural color, especially for shots like this, because it does a better job of preserving skin tone. If you look at the vivid color, it's meant for more pulled back type shots. And so skin tones get kind of gnarly when you go with the vivid color. So with this, we can do that with this. We can do that. That really makes it so I'm gonna dial back the exposure just a little bit. We're gonna bring it to right here. Now, if your skin tones are still a little bit too much for you, you can go in and again Grab that brush preset. Go to HDR. UN enhanced that number 16 un enhanced skin. And this is gonna be just a little advance that it was gonna drop this right over skin. Okay, I'm gonna paint this in. You can be a little bit liberal with the way that you're paying to get in. Just bring it right over the skin. You can see it kind of pulling out some of the saturation in some of the contrast in the skin tone just a bit. Okay, Zoom back out, and you can see whether you like effect or not. If you want to strengthen or adjust up or down the effect, hold down, alter or option, and then click the pin and dragged back and forth. But we are good right now. It looks pretty solid, so I'm gonna leave it right there. Last thing you do with his image is grab a radio filter. We're gonna go down and do a point negative 0.0. exposure burn and drop this right over the couple. So kind of pulls down that background and look at this. We get a gorgeous little effect here before, after before after. Looks fantastic on this final image. What I want to show you is just the HDR natural versus vivid because for this particular image, both actually would work totally fine because it is pulled back far enough. So for a shot like this, this becomes more of a wide angle environmental portrait where we're getting really far back. Skin tones don't play a big part. So if we go with natural color, is gonna have that more natural kind of vibe to it where I'm gonna boost up the exposure just a little bit and kind of leave it somewhere right around here. If we go with vivid color, watch what it does. So it really pumps up the sky. It pumps up everything in the image of what I would do is probably cool it down just a little bit for their skin tones. And you write about two there. So we have two options. Let me just put those side by sides. You guys can see those two options. So let's drop a You know, I'm gonna undo that real quick just by pressing control Z and let's go ahead and drop a radio filter on this just so you can see how the final image would look, and I'm gonna pull that out a little bit. Adjust the exposure a little bit now created virtual copy by pressing control Apostrophe your commander. Possibly, if you're on a Mac were select the natural color, cause the previous one is the vivid color. Okay. And we're gonna leave that right there. And now watch. If I go side by side on these, you can really tell a pretty big difference between the vivid versus the natural versions of these two presets. Okay, So vivid is really gonna punch up the blues and the sky and the color. Where's the natural? Kind of leaves it just a little bit more subtle and subdued and so forth. All right, so that's it for this tutorial. Hopefully you all enjoyed, and I'll see you all in the next video.
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Gonzalo Blasco
Cool presets, but the course is a little slow...
Taras Onyshchuk
The importing by copying and pasting the presets into the directory doesn't work for me in Lightroom Classic.
a Creativelive Student
Pye and his website courses newsletters and teaching style and education are 2 nd to none! I have his presets and some courses Brilliant stuff !
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