Hi and welcome to photography tips in today's episode. I'll give you five
tricks about Lightroom
My name is Benjamin Jaworskyj, I'm an adventure photographer from Germany
getting it all on YouTube and in this video we have five nice tricks in Adobe
Lightroom that you even don't know when you use Lightroom quite often.
Tip number one. When you're editing photos on a small screen like I do now on a laptop
you have all those disturbing buttons sliders and other things in the way you
main editing pictures just as big as navigate a picture on the left side.
So what can you do? You can now push every arrow button in each corner and make
things invisible or make them visible again but you can also use a shortcut
and my favorite shortcut is Shift and Tap simultaneously you push it together
and everything disappears. Except the picture in the middle and if you
need the sliders back just go to the right side click on the arrow and all
your sliders are back and now you can edit the photo on the big screen which
is actually a small screen.
Tip number two have you ever pressed the alt button
during your development just give it a try with any slider push the alt button
for example with the whites and then a black screen will appear but if you
slide it to the left or to the right you might see that oh there comes a red and
then comes white and some bluish and some yellowish kind of things and that
shows you when you picture is overexposed. As soon as the white thing
appears in the picture your picture is overexposed you can also see it there in
the right corner and it shows you in your picture where something might now
here get overexposed and as soon as it's white it is totally overexposed and you
don't have any information yet it's just pure white you can do it with the white
button, you can do it with the exposure button for example go to the right go to
the left if something is very overexposed you can see if you can
recreate all the highlights or anything. You can do it with sharpening just give
it a try hit the alt button and push any slider you will see awesome things.
Tip number three. Sometimes when you're editing your
photos you want to know how the before picture actually looked there's a nice
trick for that just hit the Y button and the before picture appears on the left
side and it's also written down here on the top before and after and it's called
the Y button because everybody wants to know why why did you make me look so
saturated and I'm not sure and blah blah blah whatever. Just hit the shift button
with the Y button together and you get a different view and just hit the awesome
alt button together with the Y button and you get an other awesome
before-and-after view and just hit the Y button again and the Y button again
and then it's all back again nice and saturated and colorful and I love it.
Tip number four. Have you ever tried to edit your photos with different backgrounds
or just view your pictures with different backgrounds then give it a try.
Just hit the right button of your mouse or your trackpad
right next to the picture and then you can choose between for example of white
or for example also black other gray tones when you watch for example a night
photography picture on a black background it might appear that your
black is not actually black in the picture but kind of greyish. You can now
adjust the picture and get a better overview of your awesome photography
pictures. Or just put it back on medium grey and if you just want to put your
picture on the big screen with a black background you can just hit the F button
and it says full screen and now you have a nice full screen with black background.
And tip number five. Have you ever noticed that when you put your picture
from your SD card into Lightroom or into Photoshop that your pictures are kind of
grayish that might be because of Adobe standard it's a picture profile and you
might have activated a different picture profile inside your camera and you
always thought oh it's just on the jpg but it can be activated on the raw as well.
Just switch from camera profile Adobe standard to your camera profile
that you've already chosen while taking the shot for example I in that situation
took landscape with a Sony camera if you have for example a Canon camera you have
different presets here you can take portrait as well or standard which I
usually take because not that colorful but different and not that greyish from
Adobe standard. Adobe standard is great for for example nice-guy photography
because it's not that oversaturated but in most situations I take camera
standard or camera landscape and it's one thing I do after I imported photos into Lightroom.
Those were five awesome tricks for Adobe Lightroom I hope you
enjoyed the video if so thumbs up and if you have other tricks for Adobe Lightroom
then post it in the comments section below I'm looking forward to
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time and never forget "Sag mal Einstellung Digga!" so if I want to edit 1000 photos
it will take me quite a long time so I choose the best photos.