this week I'll show you 5 tips for quick editing in Lightroom
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together and I use them on a daily basis if you
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when you're editing a lot of images in Lightroom it can take a long time but
there are certain things that aren't that obvious that can speed up your
workflow dramatically so here are five things I do on a regular basis to save
me so much time no one really talks about this Auto button but I find
sometimes you can hit it and it gets the image spot-on other times you'll press
it and it gets it way out so it's a little bit random but sometimes you can
press it tweak the settings and then you'll get your image to where you want
it to be a lot quicker than you normally would in just dragging individual
sliders sometimes I'll be working on a job where I'll get groups of shots that
have pretty much the same settings I shoot in manual and sometimes when I'm
shooting with a flash the settings will be exactly the same in this instance
I'll edit the first image and then use sync settings to change all of the
images in that group I'll select the ones I want to change keeping the first
image is the selected one then I'll click on sync settings sync all settings
and click OK this will make sure that the settings are exactly the same from
the first one to the last one that you selected you may have to tweak some of
the settings in each of these images but it will speed up your workflow if you
shoot with a mirrorless camera you'll know all too well about dust spots in
your image a spot removal tool is a great function to get rid of these dust
spots however some of the dust spots are quite hard to see and they won't stand
out until you process your image now you can set this to heal or clone I normally
have it on heal with quite a soft edge however it's sometimes really hard to
see the dust spots clearly so just click on this check mark at the bottom and the
image will turn into a black and white negative this then shows at the spot a
lot more clearly and it makes it a lot faster to remove these dust spots to
increase the contrast just to the point of a complete range from pure black to
pure white hold down alt and then click on the black or white sliders this will
then show you any parts that are under or overexposed you can then get the most
out of your image by pushing the blacks down until they are just touching pure
black and then pushing the white slider up until it's just touching pure white
this will quickly give you the most luminance range for your image making it
more contrasty but not losing any data this will make sure that you're getting
the most out of your image without clipping the highlights or crushing the
shadows up until recently if you wanted to mask off any part of your image you'd
have to use Photoshop but now they have Auto mask and range masking this is
nowhere near as good as Photoshop masking but in certain circumstances it
works really well so first off we'll look at Auto mask click on the
adjustment brush and then make sure auto mask is checked this will then paint up
to contrasting colors but not beyond that line unless you really go over it
it makes it easier to select certain areas that you may want to change so if
i zoom in you can see auto mask is painted up to this line but not over it
if I unselect show selected mask overlay and make any changes it will only change
the land where I selected with the gradient tool select the area you want
to change make the changes you want in this gradient area you'll notice it
makes changes to everything darkening any mountains that protrude into the
gradiated area so go to range mask and select luminance select show luminance
mask and then pull the left-hand tag up this will lessen the effect the mask has
on darker parts of your image so when I unselect show
it's masks you can see it gives a much more natural look and that's about it
Lightroom is quite a complex program and there's lots to learn in it you may find
that it takes ages to edit your photos but with these five quick tips you can
speed up your workflow no end as always if you like what you see you give me a
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