Lightroom Editing Techniques | Cropping, exposure, sharpening and more!
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- There are many lightroom editing techniques you need to learn how to use to become a proficient editor in Adobe Lightroom. In lesson 9 of 11 in her FREE Lightroom editing course, Janine gets stuck into the fun bit. Making the first physical edits to your image. Step by step tutorial.
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OMG Janine!!! Your SUCH a good teacher!!! Things are FINALLY starting to click for me and it is really helping being able to follow along and work this as you demonstrate with the class sample images!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Thank you, Janine for this AWESOME VIDEO! WOW!! Easy, crystal clear and to the point
Excellent! Great introduction to developing basics.
I have watched a lot of classes over the last few years. This is the first time that I have seen the trick about using the level next to the Angle icon. I always use the rotate handles to level a horizon. Now I can use the level and draw a line across the horizon to level the image. Seriously, and this is a basic intro.Always something new to learn.
Janine you an outstanding photographer, tutor and with a personality to match. you would make a wonderful professor (teaching). I have 50 yrs (in the trade), yes from feet of 35mm B/W film hanging up in the bathroom to dry. I am my worst critic and was proving it until digital came along + lightroom, back to being19 again. Yes given luck, time and dedication i do produce a frameable image but!!.... I have learnt more in two evenings of your tutorials on U tube than 5yrs faffing about with lightroom. Thank Steve B East Anglia UK.
Delighted to hear it. Thank you.
Thank you Janine. Because of our Lockdown here in the UK, and through boredom, I trawled through photography clips on UA-cam and came across the Pangolin
page. Hooked now, and never tire of seeing your lovely images and your tutorials with Lightroom.
Keep up the good work, we appreciate it. Looking forward to getting back to Africa someday. Many happy memories of Kenya and Tanzania safari trips. Maybe next trip will be to the Chobe River....
Thanks Oliver. Delighted that we are able to keep you entertained over this time. See you in the Chobe soon!
If you would like to enrol for the FREE 11-part Lightroom for Wildlife Photographers course visit: www.academy.pangolinphoto.com/
Appreciate the tips AND the introductory music! Thanks for helping me be a better Lightroom editor...pp
Hi Hurely, glad it helps - cheers Janine
Thank you so much for this series...
I am so glad it is helpful - cheers Janine
Fantastic Janine,you have such a nice away about your teaching. Welldone. Earlier you said that you never edit your folders. I presume that you are editing your "best of collection".......
One thing you can do to help keep noise minimal (on most modern cameras -- so cameras made in the last 3-5 years I would say) is shoot at a lower ISO (which will result in under exposure in most cases) but this will benefit you more in that there is less noise. Since post processing in Lightroom doesn't actually add any noise when you have to bring your exposure up, coupled with the capabilities of modern digital sensors, you can then bring up the exposure in post processing (Lightroom) with fewer impacts to image quality as it relates to noise since noise is recorded at the time of capture, and is NOT created in the post processing stage. Over processing can enhance existing noise (ie. make it worse) though, and you'll want to see how much you can under expose and then bring back in post processing before the image starts to degrade or you reach the limits of what you can do (such as shadow or highlight recovery) but in my experience (mainly being a landscape photographer that also dabbles in other areas) is that most can be bought up by about 2-stops without any major impacts to image quality. I would say that beyond 3 stops may be too much, but for many people, by under exposing by 1-2 stops this could mean the difference between a noisy image that may lose detail due to noise/noise reduction, to an image that's more manageable but may require increasing exposure in LIghtroom (so a little more work, but literally another 30 seconds to correct exposure to keep noise lower). Unfortunately, the higher your ISO is to begin with, the less room you have to work with -- so if you shot something at ISO 1600, you may only have 1-stop to work with before noise gets to be a problem to a point where it may degrade the image quality, whereas at lower ISOs like 400, you may be able to pull out 2-3 stops and maintain more dynamic range and possibly protect your highlight areas better. It does take some testing your camera and processing software to see what the limits are for what you have (the camera you are using as some will have more latitiude than others when it comes to doing this). Obviously it's not feasible to always shoot at really low ISOs, but if you can buy yourself another 1-3 stops while keeping a higher shutter speed but getting less noise at the time of capture, it may be worth look into.
You actually get the best results in the noise department by exposing correctly (ETTR Expose To The Right) not underexposing!
Thank you so much for this great video :)
You are so welcome!
Thank you Janine, this was very informative, I learned several things I was not aware of.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you Janine for a lovely video. One Q. What do you do with radius slider in Detail panel?
Superb tutorial.. excellent teaching skills
Thank you so much - cheers Janine
Hi Janine,do you do the editing in your folders or in collections after you have sorted all your images?
Hi Paul, I usually only edit the few pictures that make it into a collection rather than all... cheers Janine
Do we crop first and then edit or vice versa? Will a cropped image have less data to edit?
Only the bits you didnt want anyway will be removed. Crop first
@@PangolinWildlife thanks!
Marry chrimas to u madam.