Hi, welcome back to the PhotoshopTrainingChannel.com.
I'm Jesus Ramirez.
In this video, I'm going to show you
five Lightroom tips and trips that you probably don't know.
Okay let's get started.
Here I am, in Lightroom's Classic CC.
In this first tip, I'm going to show you how to mask the Graduated Filter.
So, I'm going to select a graduated filter by clicking on it.
You could also press the M key on the keyboard to select it and this filter allows you to
create a gradient, like this one here, just by clicking-and-dragging.
And then you can use these sliders to adjust that particular area.
So, if I wanted to adjust the sky, I could increase Clarity, which is contrast in the mid tones.
Also increase Dehaze and by the way, I'm not really worried about making the sky better.
I'm just exaggerating the sky so that you can see how it also effects the tower.
So, I can actually mask the towers out so that they're not effected by the gradient
and the way that you would do that is by clicking on Brush and then selecting Erase.
And when you paint, notice how I'm erasing that effect from the tower and I can also
use the left and right bracket keys on the keyboard to adjust the size of my brush.
So, I can come in and just paint away these areas so that they're not effected by the graduated filter.
So, now if I make an extreme adjustment, you can sort of see what I did there.
I just basically masked these areas out.
Obviously, when you're working on a real project,
you'll wanna spend a little more time fine-tuning the mask.
In this tip, I'm going to show you how to change the color of anything inside of Lightroom.
By the way, I actually have a full-length tutorial on how to do this process so I'm
gonna go fairly quickly here.
But if you want in-depth instructions, then check out the tutorial.
I'll place a link right below in the description.
But anyway,
to change the color of anything, the first thing that I need to do is select the adjustment brush.
So, I'm going to click on it.
You can also press K on the keyboard.
Make sure that all the sliders are set to zero.
If they're not, you can just double-click on the slider to reset it or you can hold
the Alt key, Option on a Mac, and click reset and it will reset all the sliders.
So once all the sliders are set to zero, we can start painting over the image.
We're going to paint over the area whose color we want change.
In this case, we want to change the color of the saddle to something else.
Now depending on your settings, when you paint, you may or may not see the overlay.
If you can't see the overlay just press the O key on the keyboard.
By default, the overlay is red
So, if you are painting over something that is red you really won't be able to tell.
So, hold Shift and O and that changes the color of the overlay.
So, notice how I just painted directly over the saddle and also the horse.
To make the painting easier, you can enable the auto mask, which allows you to paint and
Lightroom will select the colors that are similar to the ones you are painting over.
So, notice how I'm not going over lines.
You could also uncheck auto mask and hold control, that's command on the Mac, and click
and you temporarily enable auto mask and that's actually the way that I prefer to work.
Now I'm going fairly quickly here.
Of course, I'm not working on details.
In your image, you may want to spend a little more time working on those details.
But for the sake of time, this is going to be good enough for this tutorial.
Once you painted the area, you can press O again to disable the overlay and the de-saturate
that adjustment so that de-saturates that area and we can now apply a color and we apply
a color by clicking on this color swatch and just select any color that we want.
So, if we wanted to make this green we can select green and then we can use these tonal
adjustments from exposure down to blacks to change how that green is going to look.
So we can change the exposure and change how that green looks.
And we can even use clarity and Dehaze
and any of these other sliders so that we can adjust the color.
We can always come back, click on the color swatch and change it to a different color.
And obviously I didn't really work in the details on the edges of
what you would need to do is zoom in.
So, I'm gonna zoom in by pressing the Z key
and use the left bracket key on the keyboard
to get a smaller brush.
And just paint in those areas.
And obviously I'm not gonna spend the time to paint all those details in there but I
think that you get the idea.
So, this is how you change the color of anything inside of Lightroom.
In this trick, I'm going to show you how to apply an auto adjustment to a single slider.
So, when you're in the developed module, you of course get the development tools and here
under basic we have this auto button that when you click on it, Lightroom sets all the
sliders to where it thinks is the best position for your specific photo.
Then you can just fine tune the adjustments that Lightroom made and make you image look better.
But what do you do if you want to work manually and only apply the auto correction to one slider?
Let me show you how to do that.
I'm gonna press Ctrl Z, Command Z on the Mac to undo, to reset the file back to its original settings.
If you want it to work manually and only apply the auto adjustment to a specific slider,
what you would need to do is simply hold Shift and double-click on a slider.
So, if I wanted to work manually with the high lights but then wanted to apply an auto
correction to the shadows, I can hold the Shift and double click on the Shadow slider
so that Lightroom puts in the position where it thinks it best works.
And I can do that for all the sliders like Blacks, for example, and then adjust the other
sliders manually to get a better result.
And obviously in this tutorial I'm not really looking at the aesthetics of the image, I
just wanted to show you how the sliders work when you hold shift and double click on them.
In this Lightroom tips, I'm going to show you how to change the identity plate.
On the left hand side of the application frame, you will see the default identity plate, which
right now is set to my name and right above that, Adobe Lightroom Classic CC.
But if you go into edit, you can select identity plate setup and you can change that.
You can change it from Adobe AD to a Lightroom Classic CC.
Notice how that changes.
Now it read Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic CC and you can also personalize it and you
can put whatever you want.
Currently it has my name but we can change it to something else.
I can change it to ptcvids.com, which is the name of my website.
You can also click on this launch to change the colors.
So I'm gonna select his color here and press okay.
You can see that the color changes in the preview window
and also on the top left of the application frame.
You can also change the font, style and font size if you like.
Once I press okay, the changes that I've made will be applied to it Lightroom.
You can also go back into the edit menu, select identity plate and instead use a graphical
identity plate so you can use a PNG and add your company logo or any other graphic that
you'd like on this area.
And for this final Lightroom tip, I'm going to show you how to see the keyboard shortcuts
for the module that you're in.
Currently, we're in the develop module.
So if you want to see the keyboard shortcuts for this module, you can press control forward slash.
That's the same key as the question mark, that's command forward slash on the Mac and
Lightroom displays this overlay with the keyboard shortcuts for this module develop shortcuts.
If I go into the Library module, I can hold control forward slash and I will see the library shortcuts.
So this is a great shortcut to remember because it'll help you remember all other shortcuts.
By the way, I'm curious to know how many of these tips and tricks are new to you?
Let me know down in the comments below.
You can simply type in one, two, none, all, whatever it is.
Also, if you're interested to learn more about Lightroom then check out my free course of
Lightroom CC here on YouTube.
Just to be clear, this is a different version of Lightroom than what I used in this video.
However, if you learn the principles that I apply in that course you could always bring
them back into Lightroom Classic.
I'm gonna place a link to it right below in the description.
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