The handheld panorama stitching is a most useful tip. You can stitch without having a tripod. This can make your bag much lighter, as you can do more carrying just a single lens and no tripod. Great for walkers and hikers.
I have not done panos yet. But, am I correct that you can shoot a simple pano handheld just by overlapping shots either horizontally, or vertically, or both, and lightroom will sort out what shots go where and stitch them all together.
It's a wonderful feature. Just make sure there's enough overlap between the images! Portrait mode works best for me. It's worth trying the different blend modes and playing with the boundary warp to see which settings work best.
Hello Nigel. Thank you very another very informative tutorial. One thing to keep in mind about Calibration is that, when you move a slider, you're changing the color in relation to all the other colors. In other words, if you move the Blue slider, you're also going to impact the Red and Green colors in the image. This is unlike the Color Mixer Tool where you impact colors individually.
Thanks Nigel. You might want to clarify and even expand on three of the most useful view modes in Lightroom. You talked about Reference view (shift+R when in the develop mode) but called it comparison view. Comparison view "C" is different but super useful, select 2 OR MORE images and comparison view shows the most selected in the left panel and one of the remaining images in the right hand panel as the candidate. The arrow keys will cycle thru the rest of the selected images in the candidate panel. Clicking on one of the selected images in the film strip will move it to the left "selected" panel. In the film strip a hollow diamond in the top right of an image indicates it to be the left image and a black diamond in the corner indicates it to be the right image in the comparison. The third view that I love is the Survey View "N" where we select any number of images and they will all be shown in the main panel, clicking on the X in the bottom left corner of a given image removes it from the group. As you remove images from the group the remining images are resized for easier comparison. Three incredibly useful tools. Thanks again for your content.
9:51 In the Develop mode, Settings > Update AI Settings will (usually) fix the ghosting you might get if you do the cloning or spot removal at the end. I have found this is usually necessary if edit a photo that was imported on an earlier version of Lightroom.
This video is so useful and rapidly converting me from using photoshop only. There’s so many tips and tricks to remember but I guess you experiment and use your favourites to create a default workflow. I think that’s why we forget some them if we don’t use the other tools regularly.
Thank you so much for the reminders! Some of those already knew but I had forgotten about them. Thank you for taking your time to do this video. I can't wait to see all the videos from your trips.
This was such a helpful video! When you've been editing in Lightroom for years you think you know pretty much all of it but definitely not. Cropping in Lights Out mode was an excellent tip also!
Thanks Nigel. I know this would be a tad boring - but could you do a video on how you backup all of your images (i.e. the steps you take from taking edited photos and putting them onto a hard drive). Do you then delete the images from your computer to save space? Do you save original images and edited images (i.e. TIFF or JPEG)? etc. Just a thought :)
Thank you Nigel, great tips going to try the panorama stitching, I dont like or use tripods very often so that sounds awesome. Looking forward to your Harris films. Thank you for taking us all on these trips.
Thanks - the Caps Lock at 11:17 to switch auto advance on and off - had you noticed that there is a default setting by checking Photo>Auto Advance if you always want that function on..
Thanks Nigel for those very useful tips. I've been using panorama for a few weeks now as my camera is a fixed lens and I'm finding the additional images stitched together are giving me more scope. I often use panoramas now when photographing individual trees as it is providing more detail to work with and more potential if I want to crop. I am finding that I need to take parallax into account if the foreground and background are not far apart as it causes problems when stitching images together to make a panorama. I've not had the same problem for more distant images.
What's important in a composition with both near and far subjects is to rotate the camera around its *nodal point*. Google "Nodal Point" and "Panorama". That should solve your problem!
Thanks Nigel, I'll be trying out the Masking Intersect feature, looks like it'll be a big help for me! Keep up the good work and hope that back is behaving its self.
Thanks for the video. Always enjoy different stuff with lightroom. When it comes to sharpening what I've done lately was just mask the area in particular I want to sharpen instead of adjusting the range.
great tips as always Nigel, thank you very much. I often take panoramas instead of using a wide angle lense because i want more pixels and details :D, the downside is that the filesizes are getting huge though ;) i also really love the new masking tools in lightroom, i dont even need to use photoshop anymore to edit my photos, so good!
Hi Nigel, thanks again for some great tip's even though I only use CC 23. Have you got an " index " to all the various tips/advice in your tutorials? It would be very vluable to (pureyl) hobbyists like myself. Can't wait to see your images of Harris beach.
Hello Nigel, thanks for these tips! I still don't fully understand the benefit of intersecting masks instead of just substracting/adding areas or simply using a brush mask to begin with. How does intersecting with a brush give me more control than the brush mask? Thanks :)
Thanks. Given the changes to Lightroom over the last 3 years, my use of Photoshop has gone way down. There are many things PS can do that Lightroom can't, but for standard photo editing, that list is pretty small. Focus Stacking in Light Room would be great.
thanks Nigel for the many useful tips and thank you for including my 'lights out tip'! It is so handy when cropping! Looking forward to the (long) videos from your 30-day Harris beach project, but don't feel pressured and do take your time we are patient :-), regards Nele (nhoreman1969)
Stitching panos in Lightroom is great for one reason: You get a .dng file as output which makes processing of the pano much easier. For easier landscape panos LR works great, but in my experience more complicated panos work out better in a dedicated panorama software. However, to my knowledge there is no pano software available which takes in raw files and delivers a .dng file as output.
Sir, huge fan of you..following you since long time..i need help on below when i am putting my iphone 13 footages on Premeire Pro timeline i am noticing color shifts. I tried Modify Clip->Interpret Footage->Color Management But everything is grayed out under Color Management,to enable Color Management ->Use Media Color Space from file i changed Project Settings->General->Video Rendering and Playback ->Renderer from Software to GPU Acceleration but unable to Enable Color Management Option and hence failing to change Color Management ->Use Media Color Space from file I tried this on Premiere Pro 2020 and 2023 as well. Whats the solution?
For Photoshop Elements users, any chance of a tutorial showing some tricks on there? For instance, does the "clarity" feature appear on Elements and where is it?
Re: the panorama stitching tip, an anyone recommend a tutorial for manual stitching in Lr or Ps? As good as Photomerge is with complex images with loads of details, they struggle with soft and subtle scenes
What’s the difference between intersect and substracting the undesired parts of the mask after applying the colour range (like deleting the sky or the sand with the brush). Thanks!
synchronizing settings across several images makes things a lot quicker. I was accustomed to copying and pasting settings to individual images, which is tedious.
This may only be useful for, me and or Canon shooters. I change the color profile from adobe to one of the Canon profiles for my camera. Then I start editing at that point. I believe this adjusts the raw image to look like the built in profiles if shooting in jpg.
AI Masks or selections - if the mask was placed by means of AI rather than manually assigned its position then you can still copy and past that mask. Upon pasting, the AI will search for where exactly to place the mask/selection/effect again and this take some time if you past to a lot of images - but it is much faster than manually doing this one by one.
Hi Nigel with the area sharpening, why don't you just use a lineal grad and slide that up the screen I think that's a much easier process than going into that screen that you went to before. In terms of shooting panoramic shots, I don't do it any more. I don't think they look very natural and they look squashed. And when I look at what my customers are ordering, no one wants pannos any more but I am based in Australia so people are a little bit different here and I can tell you no one wants panos on the wall any more. What people are wanting in Australia is bold colours not white skies with tinted blues. It is so different here Nigel and what people are putting on the wall in Australia. I don't know if you have any Australian contacts for Photography but have a look at some of the work they produce, and it is completely different here even the light is different here to deal with.. The other tips were good. I'm a big fan of using radial and linear grads because they are simple to use.
I noticed that there is a really hidden (undocumented) limit on how large your panos can be. Stumbled upon it when I tried to merge 3 pictures taken with an analogue medium format camera and scanned in. Ok, that would have been a pano with well over 100 megapixels but not anyway near a "gigapixel" picture... Anyone who knows more about this? (Had to use another stitching software without the limit.)
But seriously @nigeldanson my son is studying theoretical physics at uni and doesn’t do photography, I was saying to him that I know a lot of photographers that are musical and only on photographer who is a physicist- so my question is do you play an instrument?
Hi my name is auntie Keeler I am 27 years old. I’ve always been interested in the dog with me and then when I was 16 years old I’ve been photographer and then 24 years old is the cause of photography. Do you want us to green photographer you know 16 or 24 years old and now I’m on the way to 2627 open that I’m not too late to be a while on photographer. I have a learning disability, but would like to go to be a wildlife photographer from too late or too old
As great as all those tips are, I'm sure there are many people that aren't willing to pay minimum $10/mo to have access to Lightroom. I'm one of those people that believes that it's an absolute ripoff to pay a subscription, I'm not making money by selling my images, it's just a hobby for me that I enjoy from time to time. I challenge you Nigel to do this tutorial over using not necessarily free software but perhaps something that one can spend money on once and not be tied to a subscription. I'd rather spend my money lenses.
The handheld panorama stitching is a most useful tip. You can stitch without having a tripod. This can make your bag much lighter, as you can do more carrying just a single lens and no tripod. Great for walkers and hikers.
I have not done panos yet. But, am I correct that you can shoot a simple pano handheld just by overlapping shots either horizontally, or vertically, or both, and lightroom will sort out what shots go where and stitch them all together.
@@robgerety Yes! It's a phenomenal feature in Lightroom.
It's a wonderful feature. Just make sure there's enough overlap between the images! Portrait mode works best for me. It's worth trying the different blend modes and playing with the boundary warp to see which settings work best.
Hello Nigel. Thank you very another very informative tutorial. One thing to keep in mind about Calibration is that, when you move a slider, you're changing the color in relation to all the other colors. In other words, if you move the Blue slider, you're also going to impact the Red and Green colors in the image. This is unlike the Color Mixer Tool where you impact colors individually.
Thanks Nigel. You might want to clarify and even expand on three of the most useful view modes in Lightroom. You talked about Reference view (shift+R when in the develop mode) but called it comparison view. Comparison view "C" is different but super useful, select 2 OR MORE images and comparison view shows the most selected in the left panel and one of the remaining images in the right hand panel as the candidate. The arrow keys will cycle thru the rest of the selected images in the candidate panel. Clicking on one of the selected images in the film strip will move it to the left "selected" panel. In the film strip a hollow diamond in the top right of an image indicates it to be the left image and a black diamond in the corner indicates it to be the right image in the comparison. The third view that I love is the Survey View "N" where we select any number of images and they will all be shown in the main panel, clicking on the X in the bottom left corner of a given image removes it from the group. As you remove images from the group the remining images are resized for easier comparison. Three incredibly useful tools. Thanks again for your content.
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Always useful! Thank you Nigel!
Really good tips and despite being a long time user of Lightroom I didn't know some of them ~ cheers Nigel
Thanks for this vid. Nigel, I picked up some tips I hadn't known about even though I have been using Lightroom for eons.
9:51 In the Develop mode, Settings > Update AI Settings will (usually) fix the ghosting you might get if you do the cloning or spot removal at the end. I have found this is usually necessary if edit a photo that was imported on an earlier version of Lightroom.
Wow. What a useful video! I am gonna save it for later reference as well
Brush + Intersect = BRILLIANT! Thanks!
Thank you Nigel for more great content. Thank you too to those who contributed.
This video is so useful and rapidly converting me from using photoshop only. There’s so many tips and tricks to remember but I guess you experiment and use your favourites to create a default workflow. I think that’s why we forget some them if we don’t use the other tools regularly.
This seems to be a scam reply. I’ve noticed it on a a few more replies to comments on this video.
Super useful video! Thank you
what a great tool! thanks for the video!
Never knew it was that easy to do a panorama in Lightroom. Always thought it would be this epic and time consuming task lol
Thank you so much for the reminders! Some of those already knew but I had forgotten about them. Thank you for taking your time to do this video. I can't wait to see all the videos from your trips.
Thank you for the video 😊
This was such a helpful video! When you've been editing in Lightroom for years you think you know pretty much all of it but definitely not. Cropping in Lights Out mode was an excellent tip also!
These are brilliant tips - thanks so much! New subscriber!
Thanks Nigel, fantastic images, great, helpful tips - all in all a brilliant video! What more can one say! Very grateful. Thank you.
Great tips. So much capabilities with these programs.
Wow! Some awesome tips in this one. Thanks Nigel 😊
I knew quite a lot of them already but definitely some new ones too. I will for sure try the masking while sharpening tip. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Nigel. I know this would be a tad boring - but could you do a video on how you backup all of your images (i.e. the steps you take from taking edited photos and putting them onto a hard drive). Do you then delete the images from your computer to save space? Do you save original images and edited images (i.e. TIFF or JPEG)? etc. Just a thought :)
Thank you Nigel, great tips going to try the panorama stitching, I dont like or use tripods very often so that sounds awesome. Looking forward to your Harris films. Thank you for taking us all on these trips.
Thanks!
Already knew most tips but definitely learned some new ones. Thanks for this video.
Thanks - the Caps Lock at 11:17 to switch auto advance on and off - had you noticed that there is a default setting by checking Photo>Auto Advance if you always want that function on..
There's always something new to learn in Lightroom! Thank you for the extra tips I didn't know about!
I've been looking for "lights out mode" for a long time, thanks!
Can't wait to see the finished product. 👍🥂
Thanks Nigel for those very useful tips. I've been using panorama for a few weeks now as my camera is a fixed lens and I'm finding the additional images stitched together are giving me more scope. I often use panoramas now when photographing individual trees as it is providing more detail to work with and more potential if I want to crop. I am finding that I need to take parallax into account if the foreground and background are not far apart as it causes problems when stitching images together to make a panorama. I've not had the same problem for more distant images.
What's important in a composition with both near and far subjects is to rotate the camera around its *nodal point*. Google "Nodal Point" and "Panorama". That should solve your problem!
Thanks Nigel, I'll be trying out the Masking Intersect feature, looks like it'll be a big help for me! Keep up the good work and hope that back is behaving its self.
Thanks for the video. Always enjoy different stuff with lightroom. When it comes to sharpening what I've done lately was just mask the area in particular I want to sharpen instead of adjusting the range.
Awesome tips. Thanks Nigel
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome. Sundays do not come soon enough!
I have used pano quite a lot and stitched in lightroom but I had no idea or concept about also moving up and down
Thanks for your content! Pretty sure that Compare View in the Develop Module has been available for quite a long time in LR Classic CC
great tips as always Nigel, thank you very much.
I often take panoramas instead of using a wide angle lense because i want more pixels and details :D, the downside is that the filesizes are getting huge though ;)
i also really love the new masking tools in lightroom, i dont even need to use photoshop anymore to edit my photos, so good!
Hi Nigel, thanks again for some great tip's even though I only use CC 23. Have you got an " index " to all the various tips/advice in your tutorials? It would be very vluable to (pureyl) hobbyists like myself. Can't wait to see your images of Harris beach.
Great video. Lots of good information. Thanks.
May or June...YES! Sign me up for the book!
You changed my life a few months ago when you showed the intersecting masks tip
Awesome video Nigel!
I was looking at your gear, in the video description, to see what laptop you use. I’m looking for something for when I travel, that won’t bog down.
Hello Nigel, thanks for these tips! I still don't fully understand the benefit of intersecting masks instead of just substracting/adding areas or simply using a brush mask to begin with. How does intersecting with a brush give me more control than the brush mask? Thanks :)
Handy tips & great photos!
Thanks, I use Darktable and most of these tips also work in the free Darktable.
How about if a Macbook Air M2 is enough for Lightroom or should I get the Macbook Pro 14" lol?
Some useful tips thanks.
Thanks. Given the changes to Lightroom over the last 3 years, my use of Photoshop has gone way down. There are many things PS can do that Lightroom can't, but for standard photo editing, that list is pretty small. Focus Stacking in Light Room would be great.
Totally agree. Focus Stacking is pretty much the only thing I do in PS these days. Doing this within LR with DNG output would be awesome.
@Thomas Hecht fully agree, focus stacking is the one thing I really miss in Lightroom
thanks Nigel for the many useful tips and thank you for including my 'lights out tip'! It is so handy when cropping! Looking forward to the (long) videos from your 30-day Harris beach project, but don't feel pressured and do take your time we are patient :-), regards Nele (nhoreman1969)
cool tips and good explanation 🙂
I use a linear gradient when I want to change the color or tint on one part of a picture.
Stitching panos in Lightroom is great for one reason: You get a .dng file as output which makes processing of the pano much easier. For easier landscape panos LR works great, but in my experience more complicated panos work out better in a dedicated panorama software. However, to my knowledge there is no pano software available which takes in raw files and delivers a .dng file as output.
That was really really helpful. How you feel about editing with the mousè tracker instead of a Wacom board?
Sir, huge fan of you..following you since long time..i need help on below
when i am putting my iphone 13 footages on Premeire Pro timeline
i am noticing color shifts. I tried Modify Clip->Interpret Footage->Color Management
But everything is grayed out under Color Management,to enable Color Management ->Use Media Color Space from file
i changed Project Settings->General->Video Rendering and Playback ->Renderer from Software to GPU Acceleration
but unable to Enable Color Management Option and hence failing to change Color Management ->Use Media Color Space from file
I tried this on Premiere Pro 2020 and 2023 as well. Whats the solution?
Hi Nigel, off piste a bit, but is that a Peak Design strap you use on your camera, if so, are they any good?
For Photoshop Elements users, any chance of a tutorial showing some tricks on there? For instance, does the "clarity" feature appear on Elements and where is it?
Good content.
informative tips.
I will be so happy if i work with you someday :)
9:32 This is a great tip … and to quickly get back to the pre-zoomed screen, just press Z :)
In case you can't get the magnify short cut to work it only functions in edit mode. In mask or healing or crop modes it won't work.
Is there any way to flatten a stiched panorama in Lightroom Classic so that the file size isn’t so big?
Re: the panorama stitching tip, an anyone recommend a tutorial for manual stitching in Lr or Ps? As good as Photomerge is with complex images with loads of details, they struggle with soft and subtle scenes
Sorry but I don't understand the difference between synch settings and just using copy and paste develop settings?
What’s the difference between intersect and substracting the undesired parts of the mask after applying the colour range (like deleting the sky or the sand with the brush). Thanks!
I prefer to add the effect rather than removing it
@@NigelDanson interesting, I need to try myself!!
synchronizing settings across several images makes things a lot quicker. I was accustomed to copying and pasting settings to individual images, which is tedious.
You can copy and paste to multiple images so I'm trying to understand how synch settings is different?
This may only be useful for, me and or Canon shooters. I change the color profile from adobe to one of the Canon profiles for my camera. Then I start editing at that point. I believe this adjusts the raw image to look like the built in profiles if shooting in jpg.
Is it still a good printing option then? As everyone says for prints it should be in Adobe RGB?
@@horsemanshipper I have not heard of a printing issue. I do print to a Canon Pro-10, or Pictorem.
Can anybody tell me where to find the TIPS ?????? Thanks :)
I think if someone printed the user manual for Lightroom it would rival the Encyclopedia Britannica.
🤣
AI Masks or selections - if the mask was placed by means of AI rather than manually assigned its position then you can still copy and past that mask. Upon pasting, the AI will search for where exactly to place the mask/selection/effect again and this take some time if you past to a lot of images - but it is much faster than manually doing this one by one.
Can't remember if it was mentioned but but to zoom while in mask mode press space bar and left click
Most LR tips are wonderful. Unfortunately I’ll always forget far more of them than I’ll ever remember.
Hi Nigel with the area sharpening, why don't you just use a lineal grad and slide that up the screen I think that's a much easier process than going into that screen that you went to before. In terms of shooting panoramic shots, I don't do it any more. I don't think they look very natural and they look squashed. And when I look at what my customers are ordering, no one wants pannos any more but I am based in Australia so people are a little bit different here and I can tell you no one wants panos on the wall any more. What people are wanting in Australia is bold colours not white skies with tinted blues. It is so different here Nigel and what people are putting on the wall in Australia. I don't know if you have any Australian contacts for Photography but have a look at some of the work they produce, and it is completely different here even the light is different here to deal with.. The other tips were good. I'm a big fan of using radial and linear grads because they are simple to use.
I noticed that there is a really hidden (undocumented) limit on how large your panos can be. Stumbled upon it when I tried to merge 3 pictures taken with an analogue medium format camera and scanned in. Ok, that would have been a pano with well over 100 megapixels but not anyway near a "gigapixel" picture... Anyone who knows more about this? (Had to use another stitching software without the limit.)
But seriously @nigeldanson my son is studying theoretical physics at uni and doesn’t do photography, I was saying to him that I know a lot of photographers that are musical and only on photographer who is a physicist- so my question is do you play an instrument?
Interesting question... I'm an amateur photographer, I have a PhD in Physics, and I play piano, violin, viola and flute! 😊
When doing a panoramic like this it makes you wonder why bother with high mgpl cameras 👍🏻
medium format has a higher dynamic range usually as well
Hey, I made a Nigel video… I’ll count that as a win for the week
So there is no real need for photoshop as light room pretty much covers many bases?
Wish lightroom would make their zoom like photoshop
Oh oh bagsy me first!
I switched to capture one last month... idk about landscapes but for what I do, the only thing Lightroom does better is the ai masking
There is soo much in lightroom so its easy to forget some tools
Hi my name is auntie Keeler I am 27 years old. I’ve always been interested in the dog with me and then when I was 16 years old I’ve been photographer and then 24 years old is the cause of photography. Do you want us to green photographer you know 16 or 24 years old and now I’m on the way to 2627 open that I’m not too late to be a while on photographer. I have a learning disability, but would like to go to be a wildlife photographer from too late or too old
Crikey another 7…… one UA-camr found 15 the other day…….😂
These are not hidden features.
HIDDEN TIPS?
As great as all those tips are, I'm sure there are many people that aren't willing to pay minimum $10/mo to have access to Lightroom. I'm one of those people that believes that it's an absolute ripoff to pay a subscription, I'm not making money by selling my images, it's just a hobby for me that I enjoy from time to time. I challenge you Nigel to do this tutorial over using not necessarily free software but perhaps something that one can spend money on once and not be tied to a subscription. I'd rather spend my money lenses.
Adobe zii my friend.