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In this video, I wanna show you a really cool trick
where I take a photo, which is taken into the daylight
and using local preset,
which is one of the most powerful tool in Lightroom,
I turned it into a night photo.
I'm gonna show you a really cool trick toward the end
of this, so stay until the end,
you're gonna love this.
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Ladies and gentlemen (speaks foreign language),
what you're about to witness is what I think the most
powerful feature that there is in Lightroom.
And it's what I called the local adjustments.
So, I've built a whole bunch of local adjustment,
that you can get for a very small price.
The link is right on this video,
and I'm gonna show you how it works.
And I'm gonna turn this photo
into like a blue hour photo.
You see, one thing I learned in photography
a long, long time ago.
One thing I learned in photography a long time ago,
is that an object,
which is partially LED is more interesting than an object,
which is fully LED.
So, more you complexify the light, better and nicer,
it's gonna be a photo.
So, I'm gonna turn this into what it should look like
about 20 minutes after just using local adjustment preset.
So, these local adjustment preset are tools.
You've got like three different tools
that I'm gonna show you,
that we're gonna be playing around with.
The first thing I'm going to do
is, I'm just gonna add a lot of blue
because it's supposed to be blue hour,
a little bit of purple because I can,
and then I'm gonna underexpose this photo,
I'm gonna make a black point.
I'm gonna hold on the option key
and just make sure that about 1% of black point
and little bit of white.
But I want to have, like a blue hour atmosphere, okay,
I'm gonna crop this 16 by nine because I think it's,
it works better and voila.
And now check this out.
So, I'm gonna click here to zoom in on these slides,
and I'm gonna turn the lights on.
Yes, sir, so, I'm, I'm zooming in,
here is the level of zoom you can go to right now.
I find that two, two, dot, dot, one is good.
So, I'm gonna click here.
And now when you click here on effect,
you've got a whole bunch and I'll show you
at the end of this video, how to install this.
A whole bunch of pre designed effects.
So, SR stands for Serge Ramelli, that's me.
And then, then you have the tool,
which is like the brush, the circle, the gradients
or the eyes of the portrait section.
I'll do a whole other video
on how to detach portrait with this,
and so what I'm looking for is called the SR
Duke light up, light up strong,
actually, that's the one I'm on.
Light up strong, okay, I'm gonna click and drag.
And right now it's happening everywhere.
But inside of the circle, I don't want that.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to invert it,
and I'm gonna put the feather all the way here.
And that's gonna make it a much more believable, okay.
Then I liked that value,
it's basically turning on this light,
then I'm gonna right click duplicate
and put the same thing on that lamp here.
Make sure it doesn't glow over there,
cause it doesn't look real.
This is like, what is a strong light.
click, right click duplicate and put it over here, okay.
And one thing you can do to make it even more believable
is you can go here,
in range mask off,
go to luminance and move this to the right.
What that's gonna do is it's gonna make,
the lamp go really inside
and it's gonna avoid having some halos.
So, usually what I do is I do a little bit of that,
and I click and drag,
an outside of I'm just looking at the photo.
I'm like, "Okay, is the lights too strong
"or not too strong?
"I think they are good."
Once I'm happy, I'm gonna right click duplicate.
I'm gonna put it on every lamp
that you can see in this photo,
and I'm going do this in very fast mode.
So, I don't bore you to death, but the idea is,
you right click, you duplicate, you put it over the line,
make sure you, and every time you go further away,
the lamps are gonna be smaller.
So, what you wanna do is you wanna make sure
that you make your circle smaller, okay?
And I'm not gonna bore you with that,
cause that's gonna take a while, so...
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Let's (indistinct)
And if you see glowing around the light,
you can just move the range mask.
That's gonna help take the glow out,
or, make sure the circle is very small.
And basically the range mask is just gonna mask it.
Anything which is kind of dark in font,
is gonna go in front.
So, it's gonna look like...
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Okay so this is where we stand.
You can see here,
I'm gonna, one thing you have is you can see
the before and after of the circle, by going here,
you see that little break that's the before
and that's the after.
Now, if the lights are on,
normally it should radiate, right?
So, what I'm gonna do now,
is I'm gonna go back to my circle,
but instead of taking the SR cycle light up strong,
I'm gonna take ray warm, for example,
let's see what ray warm is gonna give me.
Make sure, so, as you click and drag, it's gonna be outside.
So, make sure you invert it and you feather it, okay?
So, that one is too strong.
But what you can do is you in real time,
you can go to like this and go to light rays, for example,
and see if that looks better.
Yeah, that looks way better.
All I want is a bit of, that it radiates.
Also one thing that's kind of important
when you're work in these tools,
is that the edit pen is on auto.
If it's on, always what's gonna happen
is you're always gonna have the little pin which can,
which is kind of found a wink, cause if you go out there,
you cannot appreciate the photo without the pin.
If you go on to selected,
only those selected pin will be active,
but then how do you select the other ones,
and knowing us also, if you go to never,
well, you never have the pin.
And the best really is auto,
because what auto is going to do
is when you're on the photo, you got a pin,
but when you're out of the photo, you don't have the pin.
So, that's the best way to do that.
Okay, so now we did that.
Now I need to do something about the sky.
Sky is way too good, so let's use that as a local tool.
I'm gonna click here and drag,
and I'm gonna go here to a gradient,
and let's take cold drama, for example, click and drag.
Whoo cold drama is good, maybe a little strong.
Let's see what else, we've got the great in classic.
That's a little too light, let's see here, warm drama.
Now, actually warm drama is not that bad.
Actually, it matches better, it's pretty cool.
Okay, and then now that we did that,
I can go back to zero role.
Maybe I'm bringing on the highlights,
open the shadows a little bit,
not too much Chanel that opened the shadows.
This is too bright, so I can go back here,
clicking as a gradient and maybe use the same one
that we use on top,
or I can go to, let's see,
let's go to cold drama for example,
Now that's too blue, way to blue, so classic.
Yeah, classic is good, classic is good.
I'm gonna add a lot of contrast to this.
And so that's pretty good, I really like that.
I really, really, really like that.
I think that I wanna add a little more kind of a sunset
feeling, cause the sun was coming from there.
You can see here, so I'm gonna go here, mechanize a circle,
And this time I'm going to invert it.
So, by the way, if you don't feather something, you can see,
it's very definite, you wanna really always feather it.
And then I'm gonna go to circle.
I think I wanna have something that's kind of like,
where you warm, yeah, ray warm is kind of fine.
That's where the sun was and I'm gonna just add it here.
So, we have a little bit of a glow,
like this coming from the right side, and, and voila.
I mean what you can do
is maybe make it even darker,
make the blacks a little stronger,
the whites a bit and the highlights are a bit lower.
I love this photo.
So, check it out, we came from this,
to this is beautiful drama.
It's crazy, just using local preset.
Let me show you an even more crazy example.
So, this is a photo I shot of Lamizo house in Murmet.
It was just actually, they were closed that day.
So, there was no lights on.
So, I'm gonna use the same technique.
I'm gonna create what we call an American night.
So, I'm gonna add a lot of blue,
I'm gonna lower the highlights a lot.
I'm gonna crush the blacks,
on this one I'm gonna open the shadow a little bit
too strong at first,
because I wanna see where I put on the light.
I'm gonna zoom in by clicking on it,
and I'm gonna take my circle,
and I'm gonna go back to the circle light up strong.
Okay, strong, remember you need to feather it
and you need to invert it.
And check this out.
So, this one might be a bit strong.
So, remember your always, you can go to range mask off,
if you have a, like an aversion from a couple of years ago,
and I'm just gonna duplicate
and put this on all the different lamps,
that there is, in this beautiful place.
Let's make it maybe a little bit bigger.
Let's even, let's even lower this so that it's not there.
It's just like a little hotspot.
I mean, I just, I just love the looks that it does,
and I tried this kind of retouching on social media,
and it really does really well.
I got a lot of exposure with this technique.
And by the way, if you purchase this local preset,
and you use it in your Instagram,
you can basically just post the result on your story,
and using the hashtag photo surge.
And I do that almost every day,
anybody who uses my presets on my local preset,
I'm gonna, if the photo is good and the result is good,
I'm gonna repost it to over 115,000 people.
So, don't forget just post it as a story,
and tag me, at photoserge.
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And I'm gonna turn on that window.
I'm gonna turn that window on.
So, I'm gonna really boost it even more.
So, when it comes to window,
you really need to use the trick that I showed you
of the, the illuminance mask, like all the way.
Actually, this one's bigger.
I just want the glow to come from the window.
Maybe a little more yellow or saturation.
I'm gonna add, you see, this circle has minus clarity,
which makes it like very diffused.
So, on this one, I'm just gonna add even more saturation
that doesn't do very much, but anyways.
Okay, so, that's my first run.
Okay, I'm gonna, so now I'm gonna start lowering the shadows
'cause I want to get a really strong, look, so now, oh wait.
I'm not done yet. I am not finished yet.
I got some more to do.
I forgot there is all the lamps at the bottom here.
So, I'm gonna duplicate this one, duplicate this one.
It's just so fun to do,
you should try on your photos you know.
It's just a great way to create drama.
I believe that photography is all about creating art,
creating an impact and emotion.
I used to study like some of Ansel Adams retouching
and they used to spend like over 20 hours,
retouching a photo and taking things out,
and things like this, so, don't feel bad
if you retouch your photo.
I'm not a journalist,
I'm just trying to create art and create interest.
There's a hundred million photos
being posted on Instagram everyday,
you'll need to stand on.
And that's a good way, it's a great technique.
So, now let's make another circle.
I'm gonna right click,
duplicate this one, and for the glow.
I want a big glow, but this one is way too strong,
I wanna be closer.
So, let's take another value, lets take light tray.
Light ray maybe not strong enough, light up,
Yeah, light up is good, light up is good.
So, I'm gonna make one light up here.
So, what comes from this and clicking and duplicate
and maybe make another smaller light up here.
Make sure the feather is all the way, which is the case.
Okay, light up is just the radiation from the glow,
from the hotspot there,
you have a hotspot and you have a glow.
So, I'm gonna duplicate that and put that here.
You have to make it smaller as you go far away,
and then duplicate it and put it here,
cause there's another lamps here.
And I just love doing this thing.
And you should give it a shot on your photo,
it can do really well.
So, then I usually look at your photo,
and that's when I decide what to do,
I'm gonna add definitely more contrast
then the lower even more the exposure.
I think I'm gonna add some more magenta,
or some yeah, maybe even lower their exposure even more,
So, and you can always go back,
because this it's totally nondestructive.
So, like I think some of these hot spots
are a little too strong,
so you can go back and you select them,
and you adjust them,
so that it looks more realistic.
You have to adjust the tool.
This is the color, this is the power, there's some defusing,
along with this tools that you're gonna get one hour
with like 13 different projects on how to use these tool.
I'm sending this normally for about 57 dollars.
You can get it for 19 dollars, the link is under the video.
It's a, it's surprise we've never done it so cheap,
but it's not cheap, it's a really cool thing.
It also helps support this channel
if you like what I do.
Okay, let's I kind of like that, that's kind of cool.
So, let's do some dramatic sky.
So, I'm gonna click and drag,
and this time I'm gonna go to skies,
so it's has the old value, so great in cold drama.
Yeah, cold drama is good.
Cold drama is good.
And on this one, I'm gonna use a range mask off.
So, it goes a little bit behind the building.
Yeah, something like that, voila.
And then usually what I do is I take a brush,
and then I go on the brush, I'm gonna go into detail.
A Dutch classic, Dutch classic is kinda cool.
I'm just gonna make some parts of the photo
where the line is, with a brush even brighter
because I can.
Something like this, voila.
Maybe even add a little more let's check my black point.
Yeah, we can go strong on a black point.
Check my white point, gets at the max.
This has already blown away.
And a lot of people have seen this photos,
like they had no idea, it was a daylight photo.
It was like, "Oh, I love the mood of this photo.
"I love it, it's really cool."
So, let me show you that's the before,
and that's the after, pretty cool.
And, so just let me show you how to install it.
Once you purchase this preset,
all you have to do is go to your library on my website
on photoserge.com and you can see here,
so you you've got the training here.
This is like a 13 videos of training.
That's gonna show you a lot more
on how to use every local tools,
and then you have the, so you have the Gradient Preset,
and basically it's all gonna be a zip file.
So, let me show you, I put everything on my desktop
and you can see that's the zip file that I did.
I double click on them to unlock the zip, to unzip them.
And then you select all of them, once they're unzipped,
the folder, not the zip version.
You right click, you click on copy, you go to Lightroom.
You basically go to Lightroom Classic.
You go to Preference, on windows, it's the same thing.
I think it's just Lightroom
it's preference might be in the edit section.
And then you just go to the second tab called Preset.
Now, if you've got an old version of Lightroom,
you will only have one button that says, Show Presets.
Now, since to use, the edit two buttons,
Which is Show Lightroom, Develop Preset,
and show all other Lightroom preset.
So, I'm gonna go Show All Other Lightroom Preset,
I'm gonna click on this one.
And so if you have an old version of Lightroom,
just click on the same button,
it's gonna take you to the same place
which is this Adobe folder.
What you're looking for is the Adobe Lightroom.
Lightroom, what you really wanna see,
very, very important is Local Adjustment Preset.
Do not put it into the Develop Preset,
which is a here do not put it here,
but in a Local Adjustment Preset,
I repeat Local Adjustment Preset.
You see, I've already done it, I've got the four folders.
You have to restart Lightroom and you are good to go guys.
So, get this package, it's unbelievable.
You can get it for 19 dollars for a very short time.
Post your best work with this package on Instagram,
tagging me at @photoserge,
and I will share with 115,000 people the best work.
I hope you enjoy this, and I'll see you in the next video.