- No doubt learning how to edit your photographs
when you start out can be overwhelming and frustrating.
And that's why in this week's video,
I want to share with you a cool feature in Lightroom
where you can learn how to edit just like the pros for free.
Hi everyone, I'm Adrian, I'm here to share with you
those tips and tools to help you improve
your own photography.
Today I'm really excited to share with you
a cool feature that I stumbled across in Lightroom,
which is basically free presets already built into
the Lightroom app, both on desktop and your mobile.
Great thing about this feature in Lightroom that I'm about
to show you is that it can really help you unpack the
edits of other photographers.
If you like me in the past,
I'm sure that you support other photographers and artists by
purchasing their process.
But this is a really great way to learn and see step by step
within Lightroom how they actually went about them.
Okay, so we're gonna jump into Lightroom.
So Lightroom, not Lightroom classical,
also previously known as Lightroom CC.
You can do this on your laptop,
your desktop, or your mobile.
We're gonna use my laptop today.
And once a Lightroom loads,
you can see you got on the far left hand side, you got two,
well, we got more menu options,
but one we're gonna look at is discover.
So you click on discover.
Once it loads, a little bit like Instagram
or Flicker in the old days.
What we need to do is firstly,
move straight across to what's called the feature section
across the top here.
And once you load that you can see
across the top of the menu options.
You got a selection of different genres
and types of photography.
So you've got food, fine art, and we're going to use,
obviously use landscape today,
so click on landscape and then once you do,
you scroll down and you can have a look
at the different types of images people have uploaded.
And let's say, you know, we have a bit
of a run to down here.
I think the first image that caught my eye
was perhaps, I looked at Josh's yesterday.
So let's have a look at Josh's edit.
So you just click on Josh, or the photograph over Josh,
I should say.
And then what you can see here is Lightroom is now showing
on the right-hand side,
the different types of edits he's applied,
or the settings and sliders he's moved in Lightroom
to achieve this look.
So you can actually pause and stop if you want to actually
stop and have a look at what he's done thus far.
So you can stop at that point for example
by pressing the, on the photograph there
and start it again.
And Lightroom continues should show you the animation
of the steps that he's taken to create this particular look
and edit in Lightroom.
The fantastic thing about it, as I said in the intro,
is you can actually save that preset for next time.
So let's say we really liked Josh's work.
And we want to actually use that as an example
for our own waterfall photography,
we can then just very easily save his preset.
It'll go to your save presets
and you can give it a name for what it's called.
Josh1 as an example.
And again, you can determine the types of settings
you would like to keep or disregard.
For this example, I'm going to keep all of Josh's settings.
So we hit save.
And the next time I want to add an image,
I can use Josh's preset.
So one of the advantages of using this tool would be
finding different photographers that inspire you to create
different edits and to learn their particular style
that might resonate with you.
Their problem with it is you actually can't search
for photographers, say like Instagram,
or even just Google, right?
So there is a workaround.
I reached out to the folks at Adobe
and found out a quick, workaround.
So, I didn't reach out to the folks of, what am I saying?
I didn't reach out to the folks at Adobe.
I found on Google myself.
But anyway, so the workaround is actually quite simple.
So all you need to do is jump into your browser.
Type in the Lightroom address for that.
Lightroom.adobe.com with au, sorry, no au, .com.
Forward slash, au.
And let's say, well, sorry,
maybe we don't want to look at me,
but let's say I wanted to look at say, Peter McKinnon
as an example.
So we know, we all know Peter McKinnon, just as an example.
He's been generous enough to put some on here.
So we type in his name and with better luck,
boom, we should find Peter.
And his, there it is, his Lightroom site
and he's got a few, sort of some tutorials and stuff
you can check out as well,
but under edits, similar to Josh's example before,
you can see some edits here.
So I had a quick look yesterday,
so this one over here resonates with me.
So we click on Peter.
His photograph here of a mountain, probably in Canada,
I don't really know, but as it loads on the right-hand side,
we'll be again able to see Peter;'s step-by-step
processing of this image and what he's done to it.
What a really great opportunity to sort of learn
and improve your own photography
by looking at some of the other photographers
you might admire or discovering new photographers
you didn't even know and having a look at their style
and seeing whether that's something to try as well at home.
Hopefully you found this feature really useful.
And if you did, please give the video a like,
Really appreciate it.
So pretty much stuck in my own lane
around landscape photography.
But as you saw at the start of the video,
there's the opportunity for you to have a look at
nature photography, travel photography,
wedding photography, whatever floats your boat
in terms of having the opportunity to have a look at
different types of photographers, their editing style
and technique and what you can pick up
to improve your own photography.
So what do you think? Is a useful feature in Lightroom
that you didn't know existed?
Let me know the comments below, and if you do give it a go,
I'd be really keen to hear from you how it helped
your own photography.
If you enjoyed learning about Lightroom,
the next video I recommend you watch
is a video I did on Snapseed,
which is an app available on both iPhone and Android.
And it looks at how I edit a photograph
taken in the Australian woodlands.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye for now.