Hey guys, Ryan here at Signature Edits and the weather is changing outside. It
is time for fall photos, so today I'm going to show you how to edit your
photos in Lightroom to make them look that much more like fall, and afterwards
I'll give you a free preset that you can use right away. Let's do it!
Alight so here is our starting image. I've reset it to its basic in camera
settings. We're just going to make a couple quick adjustments and get started.
So I'm going to take my contrast up a little bit. I'm going to mask out the
sky - quick little trick: Just zoom all the way up, make your brush nice and big, turn
on auto mask, flow all the way up, and I'm going to click on the sky here. Now you
can't see anything happening because I don't have anything going on, but if I
press o you can see what areas of the image are affected. When I do that I
clicked again on another area of sky that wasn't affected you can see it's
done a pretty good job of masking out the sky now it's not perfect we're gonna
have some fringing if we take it too far in the corners here but for our purposes
all we're going to be doing reset this brush by holding alt and clicking reset
I'm just going to grab my highlights and pull them down and my exposure down very
slightly just so we get a little bit more detail in that sky so you're not
going to notice any of the fringing cuz I haven't really affected it that much
now if I wanted I could also warm it up just a little bit just looking a little
blue great now one more thing I'm going to brighten up our couple here and
darken our image overall so to do that I'm just going to grab a radial filter
I'm going to drag it out like this press o so I can see what areas it's affecting
press the apostrophe key to invert the mask and what I'm going to do is just
take the contrast down on them a little bit what that's going to do is just
subtly brighten them up in this image not much that you notice it just very
very subtly and drag my feather all the way up so you can hardly notice it great
so this image is looking pretty good I could add a little bit of clarity maybe
drop the highlights if I wanted to a little bit more shadows up just lightly
that's okay for me pretty good now I'm going to go into what's really the meat
of this tutorial and that's getting that autumn fall look how do you do that it's
with your HSL panel so we're going to go to our yellows and our greens and we're
going to grab those drag those bad boys all the way to 100 below perfect you can
see just like that we've gone from green kind of nice day to fall fall fall fall
fall fall that's perfect okay so that is most of it you can stop the tutorial
right now if you want or I'm going to add a few other little tweaks here just
add a little S curve here now obviously that's way too much so we're going to
dial back our contrast now great move on I could add some more fall vibes
if I want it with split toning so we could just add some oranges and
highlights make a little bit warmer take that way down so it's super subtle and
shadows if we wanted we could do the same thing but the only other section
I'm going to do for this tutorial is the calibration now using camera calibration
I can actually dial in the colors a little bit more to look slightly more
natural I could really up that magenta or take it down towards green I think it
looks a little bit more natural if I take it very slightly up now my Reds I
can do the same thing just experiment right you'll find some things work some
things don't depending on the image - we're gonna grab our greens and take
them more towards yellow rather than green that's going to enhance that red
effect and subtlety is key so you might be looking at this image and saying oh
that's way too far don't worry you don't have to go this far I'm just showing you
what's possible and we can do the same thing with our blue primary and just add
more red to the image and desaturate if it's looking too intense for your tastes
great so I'm happy right around there I'm going to take my blacks up a little
because it's looking tiny bit too crushed great and if you want to add one
last thing and add kind of that filmy vibe to your image you can just take
your tone curve double click here and what that's done is it's turned all of
the completely blacks up to the very dark shadows just the same shade so this
is just enhancing that kind of filmic look by adding kind of a fade in there
you can do that if you want and I find doing that a little bit in the greens
can really make a big difference in just giving it a kind of filmy moody look and
this may or may not be your thing you can feel free to skip this port part so
there's before and there's after and again we're looking really contrasty so
I'll dial it back a little bit and that is how you go from zero to fall in about
two minutes okay so I'm going to save this as a preset and make it available
for free we're going to go create preset you can make your own preset if you want
autumn fall vibes signature edits and we're going to save everything except
for white balance exposure and our graduated radial filters we can then
just copy those and paste and you can see how quick and easy you can get that
fall look in one click so go ahead and check out
the link below to download your free preset today I will see you in the next
video hey and if this was helpful please hit that like button don't forget to
subscribe for more great content and I'll keep it coming happy fall