Hi everyone!
Welcome back to this Lightroom CC training course for beginners.
My name is Jesus Ramirez and you can find me on Instagram @JRfromPTC.
In this video, we're going to discuss Crop, Heal, Targeted Adjusmtens, and Presets.
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Below the Edit panel, you have the Crop tool.
You can press C to enable it or click on the Crop tool icon.
This tool works as you would expect.
You can click and drag on the corner handles to crop the image.
As you’re cropping, you can also rotate the image by dragging the Straighten slider.
Or press the Auto button to attempt to straighten the horizon.
Also, you can rotate the Crop Overlay, by clicking on this icon.
Which is labeled as the “Crop aspect” and even though the yellow tooltip that shows
up when you hover over this icon, does not show a keyboard shortcut, you can press X
on the keyboard to rotate the Crop aspect.
That is actually a photoshop keyboard shortcut that I tried here in Lightroom CC, and it
worked.
You can also apply a pre-defined crop aspect ratio.
By clicking on the Aspect dropdown and selecting any of these options.
When you select any of these option, notice that the lock icon locks.
Which means that the aspect ratio is locked.
So, clicking on this icon will lock the aspect ratio.
And that becomes useful when you manually set a crop ratio.
You can also rotate and flip the image by using these 4 icons.
By the way, there is a reset crop button here.
If you hold Alt Option on the Mac, the label does NOT become a reset button like they do
in the Edit panel.
Also, the reset does not affect the Rotate or Flip adjustments.
To apply the crop, Hit the Enter or Return on the Mac.
The next tool is the Healing Brush tool, which you can access by pressing H on the keyboard.
This tool allows you to paint directly over an object that you would like to remove.
The Heal tool matches the texture, lighting, and shading of the sampled area to the selected
area.
The Heal tool works on a raw image which means that you are processing the raw image data
directly.
and it can provide cleaner matches.
Also, since any edits and modifications to raw images are stored in sidecar files, this
process is non-destructive.
You can use the slider or the bracket keys on the keyboard to adjust the size of the
brush.
Feather is how hard or soft the edges of the brush are.
In most cases, it’s a good idea to have some feathering on your brush to avoid hard
noticeable brush strokes.
Notice that as I drag over the previous sliders, a brush overlay appears that shows how the
brush is affected.
The Opacity controls how much of the adjustment is visible.
You can simply paint over any distracting element, and Lightroom CC will find an area
to sample from to remove it.
If the correction is not what you expected, you can then drag the sample area and reposition
it to sample from somewhere else.
That will give you a different result.
Also, with the adjustment active, you can use the feather and opacity sliders to adjust
the heal even after you applied it.
To delete an adjustment, select it, and press the backspace key that’s delete on the Mac.
There is another mode for this tool.
Which is the Clone Tool, and it simply clones pixels from one area to another.
And the sliders are the same as the Heal Mode.
Next on the list is the Brush tool, you can access it by pressing B on the keyboard or
by clicking on the Brush tool panel icon.
The Brush Tool allows you to make targeted adjustments by painting directly over the
photo.
Any adjustments to these sliders will be applied to the areas that you paint on.
Start by making your brush larger; you can use the right bracket key on your keyboard.
Then paint over your photo.
You will see no changes.
and that is because we have not adjusted anything.
I will make a few extreme adjustments so that you can better see how it works.
This tool also has extra options.
Click on the arrow to expand the extra options panel.
Feather blurs the edge of the brush.
Flow Controls the rate of application of the adjustment.
Density Controls the amount of transparency in the stroke.
The Auto Mask Confines brush strokes to areas of similar color.
If I check that box, notice that when I pain over this area, it does not affect the objects
outside of it.
If you make a mistake and would like to remove your adjustment from a specific area, use
the erase option.
Enable it, and start erasing away the adjustments.
You could also hold Alt Option on the Mac as you paint to activate the eraser temporarily.
To create a separate adjustment, click on the plus icon, and start painting.
This adjustment will be independent from any others.
Notice the blue dots.
These are the separate adjustments.
To completely delete an adjustment, right-click on the blue dot representing the adjustment
and select “delete.”
Or select it by clicking on it and pressing the Backspace key which the delete key on
the Mac.
The next two tools work very similarly to the Brush tool, they are both targeted adjustment
tools, but are instead of painting, you click-and-drag to create gradients that adjust the photo.
The first is the Linear Gradient.
Press the L Key to enable it.
You click and drag to create the linear gradient.
That applies the same effect we had with the Brush tool.
You can, of course, make any adjustments that you like with the sliders.
To flip the gradient, tap on Invert, and it flips it over.
To delete it, you can simply hit the Backspace key on the keyboard that’s the delete key
on the mac.
The next adjustment is the Radial Gradient.
Press R to enable it.
This tool is very similar to the previous one.
It does the same thing but with round gradient instead of a liner one.
You could use it to create bright highlights.
Maybe even the sun glares.
Notice that my Invert button is checked.
By default, it is not, so if your radial gradient is affecting the outside of the circle, then
enable the invert checkbox.
Delete the Radial Gradient by pressing the Backspace key on the keyboard that’s the
Delete key on the mac.
Finally, we have Presets.
Click on Presets to expand the preset panel.
Before I show you how to use the presets, I’m going to disable Single-Panel mode.
Then open the Light panel and the Color panel.
Because I want you to see, that the presets are simply adjusting the sliders in these
panels.
They are “pre-setting” the sliders to create an effect.
You can open a preset panel category.
And hover over the different presets to see how they affect the photo
On the right-hand side, you can see how the sliders on the light and color panel are changing
as I hover over the presets.
To apply anyone of these effects, you can simply click on it, and it will be applied
to your photo.
You could also refine the presets by adjusting the sliders in the Light and Color panels.
You can click on the three dots in the preset panel.
And select “create preset” to make a preset out of the current look of the image.
In other words, Lightroom will remember the position of the sliders.
You can give your preset a name, and once you click save, it will be placed under “User
Presets.”
In the next video, we will be talking about exporting photos.
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Thank you so much for watching, and I will talk to you again in the next video.