Transforming Raw Exposures into Polished Images Lightroom CC – Create Stunning Images using the Basic Panel http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/tag/the-basic-panel MY WORK FLOW: 1- Basic Panel - Exposure – make any adjustments
- Highlights and Shadows – View image
- Reduce Highlights by moving slider to left;
- Open up shadows by moving slider to right
- White/Black Balance – Alt (Mac-Opt) Click and move white slider to right until little white comes through then back off until it is gone (Sun, glare should remain white. (Look at image too.) ; Alt (Mac-Opt) Click and move black slider to left until little more black comes through. (Most images benefit for some black. Images with fog almost always benefit from Black in foreground to show there is fog.)
- Clarity 50-80/Vibrance 25-40 to taste.
- Saturation – I do not use this.
2 – Tone Curve Panel - Minor adjustments – try medium contrast point curve
3 – Color/BW Panel - Set on Saturation
- Based on picture, pick colors to adjust and move left for less or right for more.
- Switch to Luminance and adjust same colors to taste
4 – Split Toning 5 – Detail Quick fix – Sharpening 70-80, Detail 30-40, Luminence 40-60 depending on noise - Crop Picture to taste
- Make fine adjustments with Adjustment tools – SEE BELOW
6 – Lens Correction and Effects - Pick/click “enable profile corrections” and “remove chromatic aberrations”
- Apply minimum vinyet – usually black (slider to left)
ADJUSTMENT TOOLS 1 – Crop (R) - Level horizon
- Pick custom or size (e.g. 8x10)
- Unlock if “custom” - eg landscapes
- Cycle Overlay - “O”
- CROP to taste
2 – Spot Removal (Q) - Pick “Clone” or “Heal” - Clone – copies pixels, Heal – copies “color” texture remains
- Adjust size of brush “[“ or “]”
- Click spot, move sample area to suite
- Or, Click and Hold and select an area
3 – Red Eye 4 – Graduated, Radial Filters and Brush - Work more or less the same
- Radial Filter – has a mask that can be switched
- Brush – like Spot Removal has brush variants
- Color Adjustment is through temp/tint control, or via a color dropper
- Adjust all basic functions within a specific area
- Color Adjustment is through temp/tint control, or via a color dropper
- Adjust brush size and paint with mouse
- Click erase button and paint to erase
REFERENCES: Anthony Morganti : http://www.AnthonyMorganti.com Serge Romelli: http://photoserge.com/ plus their You Tube channels J. Kost List of Tutorials --- Something for Everyone http://www.jkost.com/lightroom.html Lightroom is a software tool used by many digital photographers who need a way to catalog, organize, develop, and print/output your images. Lightroom includes a map module showing where images were shot using Google Earth, a photo book creation module, a slide show module, a web module and an easy way to email photos. All work in Lightroom is non-destructive so you can always get back to your original image. You can work on an image in Lightroom and then send it to Elements, Photoshop CS-CC, and various third party products such as NIK, HDR programs, etc., for further developing. You can also publish directly to Facebook, SMUGMUG, and other internet sites to display your images. Meetings usually start with questions and answers from the members. A member then presents a topic that was selected at a previous meeting. We may watch a video, have a live demonstration, or a combination of both. The SIG meets the first Monday of the Month from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Game Rooms 1 & 2 in the Activities Center. |
