- In this video I'm gonna show you how to use the free
Adobe Lightroom Mobile app that's available for both
Android and iOS devices.
To take an image that looks like this
and turn it into a dark and moody, black and orange image
that looks like this.
Even if this is your first time using Lightroom,
this effect is really easy to make.
So grab your phone, open up Lightroom,
and let me show you how to do this.
When you open up the Lightroom app,
if you're holding the app horizontally or in landscape mode,
it's gonna look like this.
However you can also turn it vertically
and it really doesn't matter which one you use,
it really comes down to your personal preference.
For this tutorial, we're gonna do this in landscape mode.
And for both of them,
if you look down on the bottom right hand corner
where the blue icons are,
if you tap on the one with the 'plus' icon,
it's gonna open up your camera roll so you can choose
the photo to edit.
Once your camera roll is open,
choose the photo you want to edit,
for this tutorial I'm gonna choose this one
and the reason I chose this one is because
it has green and skin tones.
And for this tutorial, this works really well.
We're gonna take those greens
and crush all the color out of them,
and then we're gonna pump up the color of the skin tones.
You can use what ever type of photograph you want,
but for this particular look,
this sort of image works best.
But if you have an image with
different colors in the background that you wanna mute
and turn black, once we get to the area where
I turn down the colors in the green,
you would just choose that color instead of the green.
Now on the right hand side you see icons,
if you're holding this vertically,
you're gonna see icons along with text.
But the one we want to start with is the 'light' icon.
Which is this one right here,
and if you tap on that you're gonna see
exposure, contrast, highlights, and so on.
For this particular image I'm going to take the exposure,
and I'm going to bump it up to around 40.
I'm gonna take the contrast down to 21.
And again you can adjust this however you want,
this is a baseline,
it doesn't have to be exact.
My highlights I'm gonna move up to around 50,
shadows I'm gonna take down to around 60.
And by the way, you can grab these
and you can slide them,
to the left and to the right so you can see what they do.
Don't be afraid to experiment,
nothing's going to get ruined.
Just hold the slider down, move it left and right,
and put it whoever you want to put it.
For whites, I'm gonna bump this up just a little bit,
and blacks, I'm gonna knock those down
just a little bit as well.
And again if I go left and right on the blacks
you can see what's happening here.
Moving on from there,
next to light you're gonna see the color icon.
And it's that one right there.
If you tap on that you're gonna see
temperature, tint, vibrance, and saturation.
I'm gonna crank the temperature up to maybe around 20,
and I'm gonna go down to vibrance,
and I'm gonna add a little bit of vibrance.
Again you can move this to the left or to the right
to see what it does.
And if you see that I take the vibrance all the way down,
it starts to strip out color
but I'm gonna bump this up.
What we're doing right now is we're working on her skin.
And don't worry, whatever changes that you're making,
as long as you save this inside of Lightroom,
you can always come back and change it later.
The next thing we wanna do is go up to the 'mix' icon
where the color wheel up here on the top.
If we tap on that, this is where the magic happens.
This is where you can change the individual colors,
you can add hue, saturation, or luminance,
or you can strip it away.
For this particular photo,
I'm not gonna do anything to the red,
however I am gonna come over to the orange
and I'm gonna pull the orange back just a little bit.
I'm also gonna add just a little bit of saturation
to the orange.
Then I'm gonna move over to the yellow
and I'm gonna pull down the hue,
I'm gonna pull down the saturation,
and I'm gonna pull down the luminance just a little bit.
And you can see that the colors are starting
to get stripped away.
To the right of yellow is green,
and this is the one that's going to make all the difference
with the plant and we're gonna strip out
the color completely.
And again if you have a photo with a different color,
for example if your background is yellow,
you wanna do the same thing to the yellow color.
I'm gonna strip all of these down to -100
and you can see right away that green turned to black.
That's really cool.
Moving along to some of these other colors,
I'm not gonna do anything to aqua.
And then moving on to blue,
I might pull the blue back a little bit
because sometimes you do get a little bit of blue
in the black areas and we don't want that.
I'm also gonna do the same thing to purple
and for this one particularly if I move the pink
back and forth with hue,
you can see that it really doesn't do anything for this
particular photo so I'm gonna leave it alone.
But you can adjust it on your image
to see what it does for your image.
Once you have these tweaked exactly the way you want them
tap on 'done,' it's gonna take you back to the color option
and once the color option shows up,
go to the 'effects' icon,
which is this one right here.
And this is actually my favorite part of Lightroom.
The first thing we're gonna adjust is clarity.
Now clarity is one of those things you need to be
really careful with.
And you'll see if you move it all the way to the left
it's gonna make your image really soft.
However if you move it all the way to the right
it's gonna make everything look really hard.
You don't wanna add too much clarity,
but you do want to find your sweet spot
so you'll need to experiment,
see what looks best for your image.
For this image I'm gonna put it up in the 40s.
I'm not gonna do anything with dehaze or texture
but I am going to change the vignette.
Now if you take the vignette and move it to the right,
it's gonna put a white vignette
and if you move it all the way to the left,
it's gonna add a dark black vignette.
What I wanna do is just add a slight vignette,
I want just a little bit of shadow coming in on the edges.
And if you want to change how the vignette actually looks
you can come down and you can adjust the midpoint
and you can also adjust the feather,
which will soften or harden the actual vignette itself.
Next thing I wanna do is come down to details,
which is this little triangle icon,
I'm gonna tap on that.
I'm gonna add just a little bit of sharpening,
I'm gonna add just a little bit of color noise reduction.
Now if at anytime you want to see where you started
and how it looks now you can simply
press and hold on the image
and you can see where you started,
and you can see where you're at now.
If you wanna close the tool box
simply tap on the icon that opened it.
So this is the image that we have right now.
She's very orange, the plants are black.
I actually like this a lot,
and you can see we started here
and this is where we are.
She might be a tad bit too orange,
so I'm gonna go back to color
I'm gonna go back up to mix,
I'm gonna go to orange,
and I'm gonna bring the saturation down just a little bit.
And here's what happens if I go all the way to the left
It also strips out her color,
but it leaves the red lipstick
and it leaves the red strap from her dress.
However I don't want this,
I just want to knock down the orange just a little bit
so it doesn't look too ridiculous.
And then I'm gonna tap done and I'm gonna close the colors.
So that's what we have.
We took this image, we stripped out all of the green,
and that's what we're left with.
This is a really dramatic looking image.
And as always, use this on any image that you want,
just remember that the colors that you want to turn to black
once you're in the mix option inside of colors,
you want to strip everything out of that particular color.
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