Adobe has made some fantastic changes to Photoshop 2019 and also to Lightroom and
I'm going to show you my top five changes that they have made especially
coming from the viewpoint of a landscape photographer
hi my name is Tim shields I'm a landscape photographer and I create
videos to help you take your photography from good to great in this video I'm
going to show you my top 5 upgrades to Photoshop the 2019 version especially
from the landscape photography perspective and if this is the type of
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Photoshop and Lightroom changes for 2019 alright so to get started you need to
update your Adobe Creative Cloud you know the drill on this open up Adobe
Creative Cloud and it shows Photoshop CC and what I'm interested in is down here
Lightroom classic CCC so I am updating now I just click the Update button I
cannot have my Lightroom open while I'm doing the update and as soon as I'm done
that I'm going to update Camera Raw CC and then update Photoshop CC those are
the top three priorities for me alright the install is done so let's open up a
Lightroom I'm going to show you the first upgrade in Lightroom and then I
will show you the same one in Photoshop this for me is a very exciting upgrade
finally within Lightroom and Photoshop we are now able to create an HDR
panorama in one smooth movement so I have a single row panorama that I
have selected all the photos from right across the bottom and I'm thinking there
must be about seven different camera movements here with three photos each so
maybe there are around 21 files so I've selected them I right click I go to
photo merge HDR panorama and now Lightroom is going to pull up this
display here and I can as per usual choose spherical cylindrical or
perspective I find that for lansky cylindrical is usually my go-to and I'm
just going to pause the processing because it's going to take a while these
are massive files from a nikon d80 46 megapixels each so I'm going to pause it
we'll be right back when it's done okay so the preview has been rendered and
I've got it in cylindrical so I have two options here the first one is boundary
warp I like boundary warp because if I'm
trying to save the edges maybe I've cropped in a little bit too close and I
want to add some sky if you select boundary warp move up this slider it
actually warps the image at the edges so that it'll fill in any missing gaps now
if I don't want to use boundary warp I can choose this option here which is
auto crop just click that and it crops the existing image so for this
particular one I'm not true I'm not needing to add any additional sky I'm
going to use auto crop and I'm going to click merge and now Lightroom is
creating the full size HDR image this is actually it really is super exciting
because the old way of doing this I won't even get into it it was so
cumbersome and time-consuming and I ended up buying additional software to
be able to do this so this is just a fantastic feature that adobe has
included with this update for Lightroom and Photoshop now let's do the same
thing again super quickly in Photoshop so step one on this is to open up the
files that I want to use for this particular HDR panel and it's actually a
surprisingly simple process select the photos that I want click open and they
are going to be stacked up on the left-hand side in the raw editor now I
select all ctrl a or command a right quick merge to HDR panorama it is
essentially as simple as that the
process now is going to be very similar to what we already saw in Lightroom and
the preview image has now been rendered so I have two options in order to deal
with cropping right off the bat and just like in Lightroom I can use the boundary
warp which somewhat stretches the outer corners of the image in order to make it
fit or I can use auto crop which that would be applicable for me in this case
there is a button here that I can use that says apply Auto tone and color
adjustments I don't like to use any auto color adjustments for anything in
Lightroom or Photoshop so I'm not going to use that and then for the projection
options I have spherical syndra chol and perspective perspective I essentially
never use in landscapes spherical I rarely use and cylindrical I most always
use cylindrical adds a little extra height to what's going on in the
background there and that's what I want so now I'm going to select merge and
save and now Photoshop is chewing on the large file and creating it and it should
be done in about a minute the second update to Lightroom 2019 that I really
like is the content aware fill tool now take a look down in the river here I've
put I painted in a white dot and let's just say there's a boat down there and
we don't want to see that boat so what we can do is grab the lasso tool and
actually I'm just going to zoom in just a touch so that this will be even bigger
and I have got the lasso tool selected and I want to make this thing go away
so let's circle it with the lasso tool so what I want to do is go to edit and
then select content aware fill and what it shows me is a preview in the right on
the right hand side of what the fix is going to look like now I just did a
couple of practice sessions and in the previous practice session it
did it does not do such a perfect job this is kind of funny because it's like
it knew everybody was watching and this time around it did a fantastic job so
let's just do this again I kind of screwed that up and go edit
content-aware fill and it did a perfect job again that is the strangest thing so
what I was doing before is it was incorporating some land into the area
that it was fixing and so I had a chunk of land right here
so the fix for it is that everything that is green is used as the sample area
to to create this fix so if I hold down the mouse I'm removing the land from the
sample area so that the only thing left from the sample area is the water and
then that way I can be sure that my
resulting repaired image is going to be only water so there it is and if you
look on the side here in the sample preview pane which is brand-new of
course you can see that it's a very good fix there we go there so and then the
other way around is if you hold the alt button to the plus and if I was to say I
only want this area that I'm now painting to be the sample area so I
could subtract this area up here and that area from the side and let's take a
look at what it did for us and that looks great too so again if I use the
plus holding down alt and only selected this up here and then deselect the water
you're going to see that the opposite effect comes in and it's obviously not
what I want is putting land in the middle of the river so I want the
opposite I want to hold down alt I want this to be the sample area where I'm
going to do the repair from I want this white dot removed and then remove this
here and now we see the preview pane it's a perfect fix and my big white blob
is gone so if I click okay that's done so the
next thing that adobe has added to photoshop 2019 is the ability to go
backwards to step back after you've made an error now typically I had to hold
down if I wanted to step back to points or step back three steps four steps I
had to hold down ctrl alt Z or Z ctrl alt Z or ctrl command Z if you're using
a Mac but in this case finally with this update I don't know why this one has
taken so long we can just go ctrl Z ctrl Z and step backward as many steps as we
want and I'm going back through all the steps in my history elet and I love this
so now I don't have to hold down ctrl and alt the fourth fantastic improvement
to Photoshop 2019 is the adjustments and changes to the transform tool so let's
take a look at this situation I have two layers here and we're looking at the top
layer and let's say I want to reduce the size of the top layer and I'm going to
do that using transform so I hold down ctrl T and normally when I grab one of
the corners and start to move it everything would go out of proportion I
would lose my aspect ratio but now they have included it so that the default is
that the aspect ratio will stay the way that it is I actually really like this
change so I can even grab the image from the side and pull it in and the aspect
ratio will remain constant if I want to play around with the aspect ratio I just
hold down the shift key grab it from the side and then I can warp it however way
I want to just like before so I actually welcome this change I'm
clicking ctrl Z to go back but I really like this change because it's just one
less thing I have to worry about when I'm clicking and dragging so it's a nice
option so the number five the fifth new feature with Adobe Photoshop 2019 is the
changes that they made to the layer blending modes so we're taking a look at
the top layer at the moment and we can see the blending modes and now when I
mouse over the different blending modes I'm on color burn linear burn darker
color lighten screen color dodge you can see that the effect is being applied
right before your eyes so you don't have so you can just see it instantly I think
that this is a fantastic upgrade for Photoshop 2019 so these are my top five
changes to Photoshop 2019 it is a big deal when we consider that the HDR
panorama has been added this changes everything from a landscape
photographers perspective so if you enjoyed this video I would ask that you
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adobe has made to photoshop and lightroom do you like them is it enough
or there are other changes that you would like to see that Adobe makes
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