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 the Effects, Detail, Optics, and Geometry panel.
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The Effects panel gives you control over Clarity, Dehaze, and Vignette.
The first adjustment in this panel is Clarity which adds contrast to edge pixels.
This effect can really make your images and pop and stand out.
However, with portraits remember keep the Clarity to a minimum since it can damage skin
tones.
Dehaze removes haze from photos.
This photo does not have much haze, but I will open this photo from a Rain Forrest in
Costa Rica, with a lot of haze.
By dragging the Dehaze slider to the right, you will remove the haze that is found in
this image.
You can also Hold Alt Option on the Mac as you drag to reveal clipped dark pixels.
Those are the areas that have lost all detail and are now pure black.
Vignette, allows you to add a vignette to your photo.
Dragging the Vignette slider to the left makes a black vignette.
Dragging to the right makes a white vignette.
I also want to point out that this is the first slider that also has extra options.
That is what this light gray arrow in a dark box represents.
If you click on it, you will expand the extra options for this slider.
These extra option sliders, unfortunately, do not have an animated tool tip explaining
how they work like the parent slider.
Feather allows you to set how blurry the edge of the vignette is.
You can adjust the midpoint to determine how far the vignette edges get to the center of
your photo.
Roundness controls how round the vignette is.
The Highlights slider controls the highlights that will pop through the dark vignettes.
In this photo, it is more noticeable in the sky.
If you reset your Vignette to slider, it will disable the extra options.
Next, select the Detail panel.
This panel allows you to increase the sharpening of your image, reduce noise, and add film
grain.
When working on this panel, I recommend working in the 1:1 view.
This allows you to view the actual size of the photo.
You’re viewing it at 100%, and it will give you a better representation of the changes
that you make with the adjustments in the Detail panel.
Start by increasing the Sharpening.
If you hold Alt option the Mac and click on that slider, it will hide the color.
Sometimes it's easier to see the sharpening effect that you are applying if there is no
color distracting your eye.
Sharpening also has extra options.
To reveal the options, click on this arrow.
Radius Adjusts the size of the details that sharpening
is applied to.
Photos with fine details generally need a lower setting.
Images with larger details can use a larger radius.
But never push the radius too far since it can result in unnatural-looking edges.
Hold Alt, Option on the Mac, as you drag to see an overlay that shows you how the adjustment
is affecting your photo.
Detail Adjusts how much high-frequency information
is sharpened in the image and how much the sharpening process emphasizes edges.
Lower settings primarily sharpen edges to remove blurring.
Higher values are useful for making the textures in the image more pronounced.
Once again holding Alt, Option in the Mac, as you drag reveals an overlay that shows
you the edges affected.
Masking Controls an edge mask.
With a setting of zero, everything in the photo receives the same amount of sharpening.
With a setting of 100, sharpening is applied mostly to areas near the strongest edges.
Press Alt or Option on the mac while dragging to reveal a great visual representation of
how this slider works.
Anything that is white will receive the sharpening effect, and anything that is black will not
be sharpened.
Much like a layer mask in Photoshop, white reveals, and black conceals.
And of course, we’re hiding or revealing the sharpening effect.
Next, we have Noise reduction This image has very little noise, so I’m
going to open a different Image.
This photo of London has a lot more noise, and it will do a better job showing us how
this adjustment works.
You can reduce the noise in this photo dragging the Noise Reduction slider to the right.
Holding Alt, Option on the Mac as you drag removes that color so that the adjustment
is easier to see.
This also true for the extra option sliders nested under the Noise Reduction adjustment.
I’m going to click on this icon to expand it and reveal those extra options.
Detail controls the luminance noise threshold.
Meaning, how much detail do you want in the blurred noise.
Higher values preserve more detail but can produce noisier results.
Lower values produce cleaner results but may also remove some detail.
Contrast helps you to regain any contrast loss that
might have occurred by increasing sharpening.
This photo contains no color noise, but you could use this slider to remove the color
noise in your photos.
The extra options are Color Detail
It Controls the color noise threshold.
Lower values remove color speckles but can result in color bleeding.
Higher values protect thin, detailed color edges but can result in color specking.
Smoothing Adds a softening effect to the speckled color
tones.
The Grain Slider Adds a film grain effect to the image.
Holding Alt or Option on the Mac does not do anything as you drag.
The extra options are pretty self-explanatory.
Size controls how big the grains are and Roughness controls the regularity of the grain.
Basically, how rough or smooth the surface appears.
Open the optics panel.
Optics gives you two options.
Remove Chromatic Aberration and Enable Lens Corrections.
I’m going to go to the Film Strip and open the Venice image and zoom into this area here.
Check “Remove Chromatic Aberration, ” and you'll see how the color outlines are removed.
Chromatic aberration is usually shown as a magenta or a green glow around the edges in
your photo.
Chromatic aberration is a common problem in lenses, which occurs when the colors are incorrectly
refracted, bent, by the lens, resulting in a mismatch at the focal point where the colors
do not combine as they should.
as a result, the image can look blurred or contain noticeable color edges.
Especially in high contrast areas.
I’m going to fit the image to screen so that you can see it all.
then I'm going to select “Enable lens corrections.”
Which corrects distortions in common camera lenses.
If you're working with a RAW file, Lightroom CC will know the camera and lens that you
used to shoot your photo based on metadata.
And it will use a lens profile to compensate accordingly with any lens distortions and
lens vignetting.
You can tap on this icon to reveal the extra options.
Distortion Correction and Lens Vignetting both allow you to customize the correction
applied by the profile.
The default value for both is 100 which is what the profile indicates as the proper compensation.
But you can reduce or increase that compensation applied by the profile with these sliders.
I find that the default settings usually give me a good result.
Finally, we have the Geometry Panel.
The Geometry Panel allows you to remove perspective distortions.
This panel works great in photos with crooked horizons or buildings with vertical and/or
horizontal lines that aren't straight.
In this photo, there's not a lot of distortion.
So, the change will be subtle, but I will open a different photo that will give you
a much more dramatic result.
Lightroom CC has four Upright modes that you can use to automatically fix perspective ─ Auto,
Level, Vertical, and Full.
I always try Auto first, since Lightroom CC does a fantastic job figuring out the adjustments
that photos need.
But try the other as well in case you find something you like.
After applying an Upright mode, you can adjust the image further by manually modifying the
sliders below.
They are self-explanatory, so I will not go through each one.
You could also use the Guide Upright Tool to draw two or more guides to straighten horizontal
and vertical lines.
You can simply click and drag lines that follow lines along your image, and Lightroom CC will
automatically make the adjustment.
I’m going to go back into the Image we have been working all along this training video.
By the way, you can press the backslash key to see the original photo.
And press the backslash key again to see the edited photo.
As you can see, this is a much better-looking image, and it was all accomplished by dragging
a few simple sliders.
In the next video, we're going to talk about Crop, Heal, Targeted Adjustments, and Presets.
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Thank you so much for watching, and I will talk to you again in the next video.