FOUR Hidden Lightroom Tools (and where to find them)
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- If you're a landscape photographer who uses Lightroom, then you're going to love the hidden tools I'm about to show you in this video. These "secret" features require a few extra clicks to access or set up...BUT provide some VERY handy shortcuts to important information about your photograph, which makes your time in Lightroom more fun and productive!
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0:00 Overview
0:23 Histogram: Tonal Group Overlay
2:39 Monitor Clipping in Color Channels
6:08 LAB Values for Pixel Lightness
8:52 Using Pins to Preview Masks
11:55 Conclusion and Further Learning
Great video, thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks, happy you enjoyed it!
Great tutorial Christopher. I almost missed it because I thought I already knew all of LRC's trick, but I was wrong! Thanks for your free course as well which I am going to download right now. Thank you.
My pleasure, happy you like it....and I hope you enjoy the course! Feel free to email if you have any questions.
Wonderful insights !!!! Thank you Chris....
My pleasure! Thanks for watching :)
This is a great video Christopher. Thank you so much! 😊
Thank you Charlotte, glad you liked it! :)
Thank you Christopher, lots of information thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! :)
Excellent tutorial!! Appreciate how lucidly you have demonstrated these helpful techniques 🙏🏻
That is excellent to hear, thank you for the thoughtful feedback!
Great video, Christopher! And very helpful tips to all those photographers out there!
Thank you, I'm very glad you enjoyed it! :)
awesome video thank you
My pleasure TJ!
This is an excellent video, one of the best. I have been using LR for years, and still learned a lot from this one. Thank you
Thanks for the great feedback, glad you found it useful!
Very useful information, good job
My pleasure!
The histogram section is something I will be using often from now on. Thank you and sub'd!
Glad you found something useful....and I appreciate the sub, thanks!
You are a phenomenal teacher, Christopher ! Cleared lot of my doubts in the use of Luminance range !🙏🙏👌
A small query ..... is there a way to transfer a mask created in ACR as a selection in Photoshop ?
I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful, thanks for the kind words! As of now, I'm not aware of a way to transfer a mask in ACR to a selection in Photoshop. However, as a workaround, you can convert the mask overlay to White on Black, take a screenshot of the image only (not the entire screen), and bring that over to Photoshop as a new layer lined up on top of your photograph...then use a luminosity mask to create a selection based on the lightness value of that screenshot (white, grey, black). Not perfect, but it's all I can think of at the moment and will be easier than trying to replicate that mask manually. Hope that helps!
great video...subscribed
Happy you like the video....and I appreciate the sub, thanks!
I did not know that! Subbed!
Happy to have you here! :)
***** Excellent
Thanks!
Found it thanks
Great! Feel free to email me if you have any quesitons.....hope you enjoy the course!
This is great thanks, I couldn't see the link to the video?
Glad you like it Robert! The link is under the description for the video. It may be hidden under the fold, so you would need to click "more" to see the entire description.
good stuff, Christopher, thank you!
Now, suppose we have overall exposure okay, but blown-out reds. How do we adjust that?
Directly in the histogram: no
Would we go to the tone curve and reduce the red channel until the over-exposure goes away?
Any other ideas?
Glad you like it Norbert....and great question! So if those red pixels are clipped, then you need to adjust the LIGHTNESS in order to recover that detail. The tone curve set to red channel will not work here as that is a color shift....dropping it will push those reds into cyan. I have an in-depth video here on my channel about curves which explains this in more detail, but what you would want to do first is make sure you're in the best color PROFILE. The profile tells Lightroom how to define your colors...it sets the environment...which pixels should be categorized as red, etc. So if you find that your colors are getting clipped, I would check the profile first and see if switching to something more neutral (i.e. Camera Faithful or Adobe Neutral) will pull more detail out of that raw file and scale back on the clipping. From there, I would then use the Point Color tool within a mask (or the mixer if its more straightfoward) to reduce the Luminance of that specific color. Hope that helps!
If I see that I'm clipping a specific color, how do I adjust just that color instead of everything?
Hi Andy! That's going to depend on how much clipping is occuring, and how much of that color is in your image. For example, if you're clipping just a few small areas of blue, then it would be ideal to first isolate that area with a mask and then adjust the lightness value of those blues. Your first step though is to make sure you're using the proper color profile, as this defines the environment that you're colors are in. If you're using a profile that's not suited well for your image, then it can clip your colors unnecesarily. From there, you can use the Point Color tool within a mask.
Great video, but I'm not clear how you "switched over to color channel" with your histogram. Pretty sure I've never seen that before and I've watched this segment three times and I'm not clear on what you did to bring that up. Thanks!
Thanks, glad you like it! You don't actually "switch" to a specific color channel, but rather you're able to SEE each clipped color channel as an overlay (instead of the standard red for all clipped highlights and blue for all clipped shadows). This will not let you switch to that specific color channel to adjust them independently...but once you know which color is being clipped, you can then pick one of your Develop tools and recover that data. The Point Color tool within a mask is your best bet, but also switching color profiles to a more neutral one can instantly recover those clipped pixels.
@@christopherodonnell thanks so much for the courtesy of the reply! I think I get it now hearing you explain it this way. Again excellent and helpful video! Appreciate it and the time you took making it!
@@Argolich My pleasure, thanks! The bigger point of this feature is that sometimes, when you've blown out pixels, you can recover them by only adjusting the lightness of a specific COLOR rather than the more global adjustment with your tonal sliders (exposure, highlights, shadows, etc). This is usually more accurate than adjusting all colors of a pixel.
Sorry can't see the link
Hi Judith! The link is in the description for the video, but you may need to click "more" to expand and see it. Here's a direct link: creativeraw.com/lightroom-behind-the-mask/
Hope you enjoy the course!