Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography right here on
AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace.
Well this is the second part of a
two-part video series on using
Lightrooms develop modules specifically for
beginners. There are two things we want
to do, we want to do global changes
that's what we did in the last episode.
In this episode we're doing specific
local changes. We're going to be changing
things in specific areas of our image.
This video is for beginners,
if you didn't see the last episode,
make sure you watch that
and we're going to continue making an image
go from drab to pretty fab
so let's take a look right now.
There are five local adjustment
tools in Lightroom Classic.
There is the spot removal tool,
the red eye removal tool,
the graduated filter, radio filter
and adjustment brush now we're going to
work with all these except for the red
eye tool it's pretty straightforward you
can click on that and learn how to do it
all on your own we're going to start by
getting in here to the adjustment brush
because understanding this is really
going to help us understand how all of
these other tools work now these behave
a little bit wonky when you first start
using them it might not make sense to
you so let's talk about how this works
so once you select a brush or a tool you
do that just by clicking on it,
you'll see that this new panel shows up here.
This panel is going to define what it is
that you're doing to the local area on
your image and so what we want to do is
we want to choose an effect so we have
all of these predefined effects here.
I want to choose exposure then I'm going
to double click effects
because that's going to reset the exposure to zero
and that's going to give me a nice brush
with nothing at all happening
and then I'm going to take my exposure down
to -4 that's just going to help you
see something that's happening
on the screen. So what I'll do here is I'm going
to get my brush,
I can change the size of this brush
by going down here and clicking making this really large
or really small,
I can change the feather
that's how much the transition area is
taking up, I can do that here
or I can just use the mouse wheel
it makes it much, much easier
and then I can paint on to my image.
So what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to paint over this escalator here
and I'm painting on an exposure of
negative for now you can see that over
here on the right, I can now edit this
I can take the exposure up or down in this
area, make the contrast really high.
You can make the saturation really high
I can do whatever I want,
just to this area that I've painted,
if I want to see
exactly where I've painted
and this is true of all the brushes
I can hover over this little dot right here
with my hand and it glows red
towards glowing red that's showing where exactly
that effect is because sometimes
these effect are really subtle
and so you might want to see that.
Now let's say I wanted to do
something different,
so over here on Am's face
perhaps I want to well let's
desaturate her face.
What I need to do is
get a brand new brush, so that I don't
have the same thing happening
because if I paint right now,
the same thing then I have two areas
that are doing the same thing,
so if I take the exposure down
notice these two things are connected,
if I go up?
These two things are connected.
I don't want that,
so what I want to do is have two separate things,
so what I'll do here is,
I'm going to select this dot,
this brush,
hit the Delete key.
That is going to get rid of this thing
that I just did.
Now I'm going to get a new brush
make the exposure -4,
paint over this escalator over here,
then I'm going to go get a new brush,
then I'm going to choose exposure
make the exposure back to zero
by double clicking the effects
and I'm going to take the saturation down to -1 here
and just paint over Am's face.
Now notice we have two separate areas
we have a Am's face,
I can see that by hovering
over we have this escalator over here
I can see that by hovering over.
I can select which brush I'm using,
which area that I'm editing
by clicking on the dot.
Notice these two things have dots,
if I click over here on this first dot,
I'll click on that,
notice that I can do a few things.
Now I can change this to positive or negative
exposure I can change the whites or
blacks or clarity or anything else
I want. I can also click and drag this to
move this around. That's why you
want to have two different areas so each
brush is going to do its own thing.
If I want Am's face over here click on that.
I'll reset the saturation
and maybe I'll take the clarity down
so that it looks a little bit,
like her skin doesn't have any details at all.
So there's all kinds
of things you can do with that
just remember each time you want to do
something different make sure you go get
a new brush,
reset that by double clicking effect
and then tchoose the thing you want
to do like increase the contrast.
Let's paint that in down here
so you can do whatever you want.
It's really cool.
If I want to get rid of one
of these areas
that I've painted so
let's say I want to get rid of this,
this paint that I did here
this clarity on Am's
face, I click on the dot,
notice it has a dot inside the dot
and then I can just
hit the Delete key,
get rid of that
or I can hit the reset button over here
and that gets rid of every adjustment
that I've made
so this is a global get rid of everything click.
So that's how these all work
so let's give a practical example of this.
So over here we have this area
on the right-hand side of the screen
that's sort of bright.
I want to fix that but instead of painting
this all in I'm going to use a graduated filter
and then what I'll do here
is the effect I'm going to double click
take the exposure down by -4,
so you can really see that I'm going to click
and drag and what I have here is,
I have one side of
this centerline where the effect
is taking place. So this is a -4 exposure
and then these two lines
on the outside of the center line
show the beginning and the end of the transition
so this line here,
we have the effect
fully enforced so -4 exposure
and then it transitions to nothing over here.
I can change things
so I can click and rotate this effect
by getting the centerline
and then I can just rotate that around that Center dot,
I can grab the dot,
I can move this over,
so now it lines up with that pole right there,
you can change the transition area,
by selecting one of the outside lines
and moving that farther or closer together
and then of course I can
change how much of this is actually happening
by using my sliders over on the right
hand side and you can see that we really
quickly affected this large section over
here.Iit works just great and it works
just the exact same way that
the adjustment brush did.
If you want to do this in a different place
click New,
get a new brush
and do it again.
It works wonderful so the radial filter
same exact thing,
so I'll click on the radial filter here,
I'm going to double click effect to reset everything.
I'm going to take my exposure down
by -4 just so you can see
what's happening.
Then I'm going to click and drag
and I'm going to move this over Am's
face, now notice that everything outside
this circle, this oval is a -4
I don't want that,
what I want is,
I want it to be the inside,
so over here on the right side
there's an invert so I can click invert here
and then exactly the opposite
is happening now the inside of this filter
is what's happening, not the outside,
I can change the shape of the filter
I can rotate this around,
I can elongate it.
So anything that sort
of roundish that's what this is for
so we wouldn't do this maybe what we
would do is we would increase
the exposure to make her face glow
just a bit, maybe it could lower the contrast
whatever but you can use this
to sort of highlight different areas
and once it's where you want it to be,
you can hit close and there you go.
It looks pretty cool
so we've changed different areas
let's talk about this spot tool.
The spot tool is wonderful
it is used to clean up
spots that were created by dust
on the sensor,
that's one thing,
the other thing you can do is you can clean up areas
on a person's face or arm you can do some
skin retouching. So let's start by using
this to clean up some sensor dust so all
I need to do is click on the spot
removal tool there are two options up
here there's clone and heal you want to
use heal 95% of the time we'll show you
the difference here in a little bit but
to use this all you need to do is get
the place that you want to
clean out, this spot right here,
click it, that's it.
What's going to happen is Lightroom is
going to choose a place that it thinks
is similar as the source and take the
texture from this
and then heal it over this other area,
so here's another dot.
I'll click on that that's going to heal
that just fine you might have to do some
adjustments for example if I click on
this what might happen is whoops look at
that it took this really bright area to
this dark area and so it's obvious that
we've done something so I can click
and drag that source area over to somewhere
that looks similar, now it's taking from here,
putting here and look it is
transparent. You can't really tell
anything that's happened,
it cleans it up just great.
So what I'm going to do now
is I'm going to go over here we're going
to use this for some skin retouching,
so I'm going to grab this spot removal tool here,
I've got heal selected.
I'm going to increase my brush size with my mouse
wheel, it's going to click
right over here on this little blemish.
What we want to do is we want to have the source
be very similar to the destination so I'm
going to click this, drag it down here
looks wonderful,
I'm going to move this up here,
get a new spot removal tool,
click on this little scar right here,
click that, make sure I choose some skin
that looks very, very similar.
That looks great.
I'll make this very, very small,
click on this little beauty mark right here
I think that's going to work great.
Okay you can see that one, two, three,
all of those just went right away.
So what is the difference between heal and clone?
Well clone takes the exact source
and sticks it to the destination,
so what I'll do is here I'm,
I'm going to click right between
her eyes and then say take this her
eyeball as the source
and notice it just takes this exact thing
and plops it in right there.
If I said heal,
what it's going to do
it's also going to take this texture,
I'm just going to try to blend
that in so one of them is just doing an
exact clone,
the other one is going to
take the texture and try to blend it
with the luminosity underneath,
so what we want to do is you want to
try to take some skin,
it looks a little bit more similar
to where we're trying
to heal and that'll work just fine.
So that is how that works if you want to
get rid of that again
hit the Delete key that goes away we
will close that
and voila we are done.
So we've made all of our local adjustments.
We've made our global adjustments.
I'm going to kick out these side panels here
hit Y so we can see before and after
and look what we did.
Normally all of these adjustments
would take us about two to three minutes
and we can make our differences
in our images very, very quickly.
It's really awesome and that's all there is to it.
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