- Bonjour mesdames et messieurs!
In this video I'm gonna show you
how you can edit a panorama
in Lightroom CC 2019 like a pro.
(dramatic music)
This video I want to show you
how to edit a panorama like a pro.
This is a panorama that I shot in Zion National Park,
one of my favorite national park in the USA.
And the best way, of course,
to shoot the photo
is to be into portrait mode,
and I've taken,
I wanna say, six different photos.
Now, I did not HDR the photos
and I probably should have,
so what I did is I
on purpose underexposed them because
I was shooting right toward the sun.
So what I'm going to do in Lightroom CC
is I'm going to select all of these photos
by holding on to shift key,
and with
my
right arrow,
I'm going to select all of that.
Then I'm going to right click,
and I'm going to go to photo merge,
panorama merge.
When you come to that,
you get a preview of your panorama
and you get different kind of projections.
Now projections, to make it simple,
is just different ways of stitching the photos together.
Basically, if you shoot too
if you are too wide angle
Which I was, I think I was at 24 on every photo,
you won't be able to use perspective
you're going to get and error saying unable to merge,
because to use perspective
I advise you to be at 35mm and above.
I find that's kind of a sweet spot,
50 meter would be perfect.
This is wide angle shot,
but it works great in spherical
and cylindrical.
And if you look at it basically with cylindrical
you get a little more
you know sky, than spherical.
But, I really wanted to go for the pano look.
Now, the other option that you have,
one is boundary wrap,
which you can basically stitch a different pixel,
stretch everything
to get rid of all the missing information there.
I shot this,
I think I was on a tripod on this one,
or you can go AutoCrop, which is what I'm going to do,
because I know the pano I'm looking for,
and I don't really need this pixel.
We have the moon here,
which is kind of cool, I want to keep it.
And so I can click on merge.
Now I've already done it and it's here,
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Okay so I lost my crop, that's fine
so let's crop the photo first.
I really want to go for panoramic look.
And I advise you to crop first
because when we do all the local adjustment
I may be a little bit more river,
like this, I really wanna
I don't wanna
the moon is there, I want to keep it there,
and voila.
Very under exposed photo
but I did that on purpose,
and I think I'm going to crop it even more.
I did that on purpose because
I wanted to get all the information
into the highlights and the shadows.
So when you're faced with
a lot of dynamic range highlight and shadows
and you don't want HDR,
under expose a little bit of your photo,
because check this out,
if I open up the shadows,
I'm going to get a lot of information back.
And believe me, if you have a
I mean this is a Sony Sonar 2 I believe,
and it's not noisy,
if you shoot Nikon, Sony, Olympus or Fuji
you won't have the trouble,
if you shoot with Canon you might have the
a little bit of an issue and get some noise,
but even that we can get rid of it.
Okay, now when it comes to the highlights,
on this one I don't want to bring
the highlights all the way down.
Why?
Because it gives a sort of contrast
into this high clouds,
that I don't like.
And it just doesn't look natural.
So I'm going to go for now
about halfway there.
The great thing about Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic
is that it's completely non-destructive,
so I can change my mind as much that I want.
Okay I'm going to add a bit of contrast,
and now I'm starting to get a feel for the photo
but we have a still ways to go.
So,
starting with
once I nail the exposure of a pano,
I mess around a little bit,
think on this one I want to add some yellow,
but here's the problem,
you see, I love having a sky going
from blue to yellow or blue to orange.
If I go on the right here,
and more and more I'm getting this really warm look,
which is kind of cool,
but now all the blues become very grayish,
you know,
so how to do this?
Well, trick is not to go so much on the yellow,
just a little bit,
maybe add a tad of magenta.
I used to go crazy on magenta like this,
I kind of, you know,
stopped.
I don't know,
I'm just evolving as a photographer.
Usually at this point
what I do is add a bit of vibrance,
to make it pop
and then little bit of saturation
and I'm
I'm thinking okay let's get into the magic,
let's get into what we call the local tools.
So the local tools
are located here in lightroom CC.
I'm going to start with a graded filter.
I'm going to double click on anything that
I don't need.
I think on this one I just want to lower the exposure,
and add a little bit of blue.
Click and drag,
watch for it,
click and drag,
and now I'm making
now I'm getting back because I added a bit of blue
I'm getting back that blue that I kind of lost
in my overall white balance.
It's kind of doing like a local white balance.
And I remind you that
these graded filters the way they work
is between this and the first line,
the power of the exposure is being applied at full strength,
and that it goes on a little gradient
to the last drop
so you can make it short or long,
short or long.
Now, Lightroom Classic has an amazing option
with masking,
which Lightroom CC doesn't have yet,
where you can basically,
you know,
prevent the gradient to darken too much the mountain
by doing a little mask,
but that's okay,
we'll deal with that,
I think I want to make another gradient here
because when it comes to a pano,
I really want people to be drawn to the middle of the pano,
and the middle of the pano is here,
I still think that the clouds don't look very natural
so I want to make them
yeah they're too
they're too definite
you know, it's,
nailing a sunset is quite something
and that's really what I want to cover here.
So I'm going to take a radial gradient
and I'm going to make a big radial gradient over
the whole sunset area,
and over the rocks here,
the red rocks of Zion National Parks in the winter,
and I think I'm just gonna
add a tad of exposure,
a tad of yellow,
and magenta,
and maybe a little bit of saturation.
So I'm doing four different sliders on one circle.
Four different sliders on one circle,
I know it's crazy.
Just listening to it is crazy.
Okay cool,
maybe a little more saturation,
but we'll deal more with saturation later on.
Now it starts to kind of shape how I want
I think the photo lacks of contrast
so I'm going to add more contrast,
and now, the final touch.
The amazing.
I take a little brush,
and then I'm just going to go
double click here,
I don't want the temperature
I want it to be at zero.
Think I just want a little bit of exposure,
no saturation,
maybe a little bit of clarity,
and then
with the middle mouse
I just can make this brush big or small,
and I think I'm going to brush here,
and I just want to bring back some of the details
from the shadows here,
maybe some of the river here,
and usually when you have something
so I'm at 0.8
it's kind of a dangerous,
now here is my biggest advice,
is try not to go over 0.5
And you're better off layering lightroom brushes
over lightroom brushes
than just going all in on the brush like this.
Cause that doesn't look natural.
But if you go at 0.5
and then you mechanize your brush,
by clicking plus here,
and then let's make another brush,
this time I want it to be on the bushes here,
just make a little bit of highlights there,
okay maybe just a tad more on the bushes.
Okay, make another brush!
And then this one I'm just going to use for the top, here.
And you go layer by layer,
maybe on this one I add
a little bit of magenta
and a little bit of saturation to make
the rocks pop even more.
You know maybe
a little bit of brush here,
and small by little,
we can really get something.
Now I still think the sky doesn't look quite right so,
I'm going to go back here
and I'm going to go to the effect section here,
and I'm going to add a tad of texture,
but I'm going to go minus clarity.
Okay?
And the clouds still look a little too contrasted to me
so I'm going to go back to circle,
and that's what's amazing about Lightroom
is you can just go back and forth.
So that circle I'm like ooh,
you know what I'm just going to add
some serious minus clarity,
yes.
And its kind of subtle,
but what I want it happiness.
Now what I want is
a little bit
let's see here,
clarity
Okay is this happening or is this not happening?
Oh yeah it is happening.
It's just a little laggy.
Not so much
not too much just a little bit of clarity,
I don't want these high clouds to be so definite,
so contrasted,
that's what you see a lot in HDR photo
and I think it's a mistake
because it screams retouching.
I want to add more vibrance to it,
I want to add more saturation,
but I'm not done.
Then you come to the color mixer here,
and the way the color mixer works
in Lightroom CC it's kind of the same philosophy in Classic,
but the tools are different.
I actually love the tools here, so,
for example I can take the red,
and you can just move the hue
the hue is going to be the actual quality
the actual type of red.
By going right, look at the rocks up there
they become kind of orange or yellow,
if I go left they become really like red rocks.
I kind of like that
I want the red rocks.
And to push it even further,
I'm going to add some saturation.
Bam!
And then I'm going to take the orange
and then same thing let's see if I go left,
the orange, ooh, becomes very magenta,
and here very yellow,
I think I want a little tad of that
not too much I mean the red rocks
in Zion are like wooh!
They're on fire.
Okay and then the yellow
let's see if I go right,
I add a lot of green here which I don't like,
and there I add a lot of orange,
just a little tad,
and maybe a bit of saturation.
So that's one way of doing it
the other ones you can click here,
and
click and you can drag the red rocks and make them
like sort of greenish or left and sort of very magenta.
So you can see in real time,
but I'm not going to do it because I've already done it.
Okay so let's me look at it in full screen mode.
I'm thinking I want to make
a little more brush and a little more contrast
I'm almost there.
So what I'm going to do
is maybe just go back to the brush,
and I think I want to add one more exposure brush,
a little stronger,
I just want to make the bush here,
yeah just make this a little more shiny,
and make the water a little more shiny.
Oh my computer is lagging.
And I think I'm about done
so now, one thing that's important,
let's talk about details.
So, when it comes to Lightroom CC and panorama,
you don't have the masking option that you have
in Lightroom Classic,
that's one of the features that's missing.
So usually what I do is,
I put my noise reduction around 10
and I put my sharpening like around 78 or 80.
The reason is,
on Classic I can go further but I can mask it
I can say only sharpen the edge
which you can't do in Lightroom CC,
I hope this gets corrected.
Remove chromatic aberration yes,
but with Sony you don't get that much,
Enable lens correction yes,
and then
voila I think I'm basically done with this.
So, yes I really love this view of Zion National Park
if you get a chance to go,
it's amazing.
Now, you can download,
I'm giving you all the source files for free.
And the link is below the video so you can practice with it,
and you can even post a result
on your social media and just tag me in it,
@photoserge.
Just don't sell this to a gallery or something like this.
Also, last week I did this really cool retouching
with my daughter in Barcelona.
Amazing tricks for auto portrait,
starting right now.