How to EDIT Landscape photos in LIGHTROOM
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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Lightroom is a beast of a software. Lots of confusing words, hundreds of tools, and thousands of ways to achieve the same results.
In this episode, I want to teach you a full process for taking a RAW file and transforming it into an amazing final image.
I’ll cover a lot, so download the RAW files and practice alongside me.
I’ll teach you the tools you NEED to know, leaving behind the ones you don’t need right now.
I look forward to seeing your edits!!
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00:00:17 - Importing a Photo in Lightroom
00:02:25 - Understanding Catalogs
00:03:53 - Using the Develop Module
00:04:58 - Before you Make any Changes…
00:05:40 - Lens Correction
00:06:48 - The Basic Panel
00:12:25 - Cropping and Straightening
00:13:40 - Local Adjustments
00:13:55 - Masking - Understanding Masks, Gradients, and Adjustment Brushes
00:21:15 - Color Grading
00:23:00 - Fixing Dust Spots, Scratches, and Other Issues Using the Spot Healing Tool
00:25:25 - Painting Light to Boost Contrast
00:26:06 - Adding Glow Using an Adjustment Brush
00:26:30 - Checking Your Results from the Masking Edits
00:27:19 - A Million Ways to do This - Which is “Best?”
00:28:04 - Another Image - What Are We Going to Do?
00:28:44 - Basics - Exposure, Sky, Highlights, and Shadows
00:29:40 - Lens Correction - Chromatic Aberration and Profile Correction
00:30:04 - Straightening the Image
00:30:17 - Saturation, Vibrance, and White Balance
00:30:50 - Adding Contrast to the Sky and Foreground
00:32:49 - Adding Texture or Clarity
00:33:27 - Color Grading to Warm Up the Highlights and Mid-Tones
00:34:26 - Tweaking the Water
00:34:50 - Detail Tab - Sharpening Elements
00:38:41 - Exporting an Image From Lightroom
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Thank you. I love learning to edit in a way that the eye naturally sees things.
Will. The most comprehensive tutorial introducing Lightroom I have watched, and I have studied a fair few of tgem. I wish this had been available 5 years ago. Even now, I picked up so many gems contained in it - so it teaches old dogs new tricks, even privides a sound workflow taking a shot from import to trophy. All I need now is get the subject matter and composition cracked. Seriously, an utterly awesome video.
Kev, that means a lot. Thanks so much mate!
Super video, William, thanks for sharing! Just recently started editing in Lightroom, currently struggling with the "auto adjust" curse. So many youtubers out there recommending "auto" for a good starting point for editing, but so far, I tend to disagree. Only find myself dialling everything back again, which is really annoying. The simple approach and basic principles that you present in this video suits me perfectly.
Really appreciate that mate and glad you enjoy my workflow and approach. I definitely disagree with using ‘auto’ that’s for sure haha.
Thanks Will. As a previous viewer mentioned this is the most comprehensive tutorial on getting started with Lightroom that I’ve viewed. Thanks for taking the time to make it- very very helpful!! I like your straight to the point style with clear dialogue about what your aim is followed by straight forward instructions how to achieve your aims. 👍
Really appreciate that Jacqui, thank you!
Enjoyable and informative video as always. Thanks Will!
Legend, thanks mate!
What a fantastic tutorial! So much more effective to have files to work along side you step by step as I watched the video instead of just watching somebody else editing photos. Just took 2+ hours to work through your 42 minute video, bouncing back and forth between UA-cam and LrC, following your edits and then experimenting on my own. Pretty obvious that a "less is more" approach is the way to go, and you sneak up on your final image. Can't believe how much I learned, and only 3 days into my LrC experience I'm ready to start applying what I've learned to my own photos. Very generous of you to provide RAW files with so many of your videos. Thanks a lot!
(Edit: Just purchased your Lightroom for Landscape Photographers and Zero to Hero courses plus Presets package... and so I proceed farther down the photography/Lightroom rabbit hole. My wife is becoming concerned. LOL)
Excellent - now using the Color Grading for the first time, what a tool - thank you Will, looking forward to seeing more of your tutorials.
Awesome thanks Andy!
Will, Iam a rookie amateur photographer and still learning, recognising that you are always learning. I find your approach so logical and easy to follow. Now I just need to practise more. Thanks
Thanks a lot Dave, I’m glad you enjoyed it. If you’re enjoying the whole process, then it’ll lead to you doing it more often and getting desired results. Practice is certainly key though. All the best on the journey and I’ll see you in the next video :)
I have always shied away from raw because tutorials always made editing raw files just too complicated. This video has been an eye opener. Thank you.
That’s great, thanks a lot Arthur. Reach out anytime!
I have watched about 3 million (no exaggeration) editing tutorials and your way is definitely the easiest, most enjoyable and also most effective.. this is a good reminder of all we covered before… I might be sliding into taking it too far again 🤣🙈 only thing I do a little differently is use the calibration tab for vibrancy as it adds a bit of luminance but as you say, a million ways to do it 😊thanks!!
Haha, thanks a lot Fi. Every image will obviously need its own workflow but I hope this gives people a solid foundation here. You know how it is!
Another incredibly generous video. Thank you Will!
Really a treat to see your workflow process and tips. Thanks for sharing so much great information!
My pleasure mate, thanks!
What a fantastic video. A genuine thank you for this. 🙌
A genuine thank you for the support and comment. Glad it helped :)
Hi William you make your tutorials great to view and follow, some of my images are looking so much better since following you, cheers for that, if I ever get near your level I’ll die a happy man 😂
Haha thanks mate really glad to hear it’s helping :)
Very powerful video, very comprehensive, insightful. Learned a lot about local adjustments which I didn't know how to use, specially the color grading and sharpening.
Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work.
Thank you!
i recently switched over to Lightroom classic. This is what I needed to get up to speed on editing landscape, especially how to do local editing. Really helpful.
Glad it was helpful :)
Excellent tutorial. I leaned a lot from this one.
Glad to hear that. Thank you!
You make it seem easy ❤
Thanks Will. Excellent and comprehensive tutorial for introducing beginners to Lightroom post processing. One of the best I've seen. Your methods answered some questions and made a lot of options make sense. Thanks for clearing the fog!
My pleasure, thank you!
I like your style. So minimalistic and yet so powerful and effective.
Thank you so much!
Thank you, most informative and useful information.
Thanks mate!
This is amazing 🤩 thankyou Will
My pleasure, thanks again 🙏🏻😊
For whatever reason, this was easier to follow along with than some other videos I have watched on this subject and was well explained imo. Thanks!
Going to watch this again in the future for sure. I haven’t played too much with the masking changes and not at all with the color grading so lots to do!
Thank you David.
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography You’re welcome.
Fantastic work! I've never really thought about using the brush and using a little bit of white to make the light in the scene a little bit brighter. I'm definitely going to use that. I also like the tip where you dehazed the background to add separation. That's an awesome tip. Always something new to learn. I'd love to see an advanced one from you.
Thanks a lot mate. That’s my main tool for all images. Check out the pinned comment if you’re interested in a longer tutorial. Thanks!
Many thanks for this video. I am slowly learning to use LR Classic and this has cleared up many problems. I will keep it and refer to it often.
Thanks a lot Peter, happy to have helped :)
Thank you so beautiful tutorial!!!
You are so welcome!
Thank you Will, a very informative video. I usually do most of my edits in PS but I can see myself using LR more.
Thank you again 👍
No worries mate. I don’t use LR personally, just PS with the majority done in ACR. No right or wrong, just personal preference.
concise and powerful video Thank you
Cheers Pat!
Great tutorial, thank you
You are welcome!
What a fantastic tutorial, and you didn't talk a million miles an hour and have fancy graphics like some! I love your simplistic editing approach just using the brush! I have been using radial, linear, luminace filters etc etc but this was so simple! PLus dodging and burning, orton effect, do you not use these tricks? Anyway thanks so much for sharing this.
Thanks a lot mate. No, no need for anything else in my opinion. Check out some of my other processing videos and you'll see it is all just the brush. Cheers :)
Thanks a lot for the lesson!
Thanks mate!
Excellent video. I followed along with one of my own quite low exposure photos and picked up so many extra tips along the way. Is there a way to go straight to Photoshop from the edited image like you can in ACR? Thanks very much for creating this video Will - much appreciated by many I would say.
Thanks as always Leanne! Yeah you can right click on the file and select to open in Photoshop.
I bought the Master Class Series... this wasn't included... but now I get it for free! I was hoping for this... as the Photoshop class was great but I hoping for simplicity from Light Room? Or just different features? Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you for the support mate. I decided to make this one recently, after the masterclass was made. I’ve also got a longer course on Lightroom where I run through many more example images. Hoping this free one can at least give people a really solid foundation. Thanks again.
Thank you so much!
Cheers mate 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
I keep learning new things from your channel. Only channel of 2 that I subscribed to (the other being That Icelandic Guy).
So recently I watched a video that demonstrated that details further towards the horizon are more light, the middle is greyer, and the closest foreground is greyer still or going towards black. This is natural to the eye, oil painters apply the same principles in landscape painting, and it was proved further by inverting the colors - just doesn't work.
So here's my question: would you make a local adj. pass over the foreground that is the opposite to what you do to the horizon (dehaze), or would that be over-editing territory? Trying and seeing is always the best practice, but I'm asking if it's worth considering as a general rule.
Thanks. And yes, that’s exactly what I teach. Essentially, the tonal range needs to decrease as we travel into the distance. I’ll often add dehaze or increase foreground contrast :)
Hi thank you so much for making wonderful video, amazing... i have one question for print what the format you would preferred, even though social media. can we keep exactly same raw quality(16 bit) pixel and color details. my problem after export compare than raw format, my images(jpg) color and pixel reduced. how to maintain that
Thank you. For print, you need to change the file size (in inches) and either export as a TIFF or for smaller print just use jpeg. I have a couple other videos on preparing for print. Check those out :)
Hi there! It was the best tutorial around for doing landscape post processing! However, I am still confused on how to do the angle slider on the crop tool? What did you use? Brackets? Or what? Thank you for your help!
Thanks Rebecca! On that slider, I highlight the numbers and then use the up and down arrows on the keyboard, to make the small adjustments. Cheers!
@@WilliamPatinoPhotography Oh I see!! Wonderful!!! Thank you for your help!!
@@rebecca7243 no worries!
I know this is a slightly different way of doing it well, but something I teach people when I first get onto Lightroom and this is probably a good way to learn more than anything about using the auto setting. So when I upload an image I often just hit auto and I then can work from there and sometimes it's a really good way to see what the auto setting has come up with it usually is a little bit overexposed. Sometimes the highlights are a little bit too much but I can then just go down and look at all the different sliders and see what the computer has actually come up With from a learning perspective it's useful not necessarily using that auto edit but I definitely feel that it's a not a bad way to go for beginners to learn what each of the settings does often, if you're trying to teach somebody that do a slider to the right or to the left, and then the largest something else and then they get completely lost and they get frustrated however what I do with the students I teach to hit the auto button initially and then they can see what potentially an image can look like it might not be exactly what you desire, but it will be relatively close in terms of exposure and highlights, and then you can work from there, what do you think of this method? Tell me if I'm crazy but I definitely have used it for beginners, especially younger students around that 15 to 20 Mark
Just a follow-up comment to well I really like the way you edit it. It is very similar to actually how I edit. Oddly enough. I was actually a painter before I was a photographer and the brushes for me so intuitive because essentially we would layer oil paints one over the oth to create these masks. We did it in charcoal we did it in drawing and we did it in painting and many people comment that my images kind of have a painted look at the. I say well that's definitely true because I was a painter and I don't saturate. You can achieve some amazing light sources without saturation, but there is a time for some subtle saturation in certain areas, but if you've got a drawing or painting background, it is really useful. I often teach students Lightroom by getting out some charcoal initially and some drawing paper and I show them how this actually works.
Interesting video
Thanks for the visit
Do you know Andris Apse? He and I are both of Latvian descent and like you he is a landscape photographer in NZ .
I sure do :)
What is the version of this lightroom
Lightroom Classic, filmed at the end of 2022.