Lynda.com - Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials 2. Enhancing Photos with the Develop Module
In this installment of the Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials series, author and teacher Chris Orwig guides photographers through the process of improving images with creative color, sharpening, and other effects in the Lightroom Develop module. The course covers each of the tools and features in the Develop module, and shows how to perform basic adjustments, such as exposure enhancement; how to improve image quality through noise reduction and clarity adjustments; how to apply creative effects, such as split toning and vignettes; and how to perform advanced tasks, such as correcting for lens distortion.
Topics include:
Improving tone, color, and contrast with the Basic panel
Adjusting hue, saturation, and lightness with the HSL controls
Performing local edits using the adjustment brush
Converting to black and white
Split toning to create a sepia tone
Understanding sharpening
Correcting distortion
Removing chromatic aberration
Adding or correcting vignettes
Using the post-crop controls
Adding film grain effects
Understanding camera calibration in Lightroom
Introduction 2m 1s
Welcome 1m 17s
Using the exercise files 44s
1. Getting Started with the Develop Module 22m 4s
Develop module overview and essential shortcuts 4m 13s
Panel navigation tips 4m 53s
Using the Develop module presets 3m 32s
Creating your own presets 4m 1s
Using the Snapshot and History panels 3m 40s
Working with the tool strip 1m 45s
2. Develop Module Workflow Tips 15m 20s
Working with legacy Lightroom files 6m 53s
Viewing the before and after 4m 29s
Comparing and surveying images 3m 58s
3. Working with Color Temperature and White Balance 19m 42s
Understanding white balance and color temperature 2m 43s
Using the White Balance Selector tool 4m 22s
Correcting white balance with a color checker 3m 52s
Working with white balance presets and fine-tuning white balance 4m 24s
Color correcting multiple images at once 2m 42s
Creativity and white balance 1m 39s
4. Masking Basic Tonal Adjustments 23m 5s
Getting familiar with the tone controls 3m 19s
Deconstructing the tone controls 5m 39s
Using the tone controls to enhance photographs 5m 28s
Correcting clipping with the tone controls 4m 53s
Synchronizing tonal adjustments with multiple images 3m 46s
5. Improving Vibrance, Saturation, and Clarity 22m 31s
Understanding vibrance and saturation 5m 6s
Working with vibrance and saturation 5m 38s
Color creativity with temperature, vibrance, and saturation 3m 19s
Understanding clarity 2m 34s
Using clarity in collaboration with vibrance and saturation 5m 54s
6. Basic Panel Workflow Reflections 10m 37s
Basic panel workflow 3m 38s
Using Auto Tone 1m 42s
Workflow considerations 5m 17s
7. Cropping and Composing 18m 27s
Cropping 3m 29s
Changing the crop aspect ratio 1m 47s
Straightening with the Crop tool 2m 49s
Working with the crop overlay 3m 4s
Crop creativity and orientation 2m 36s
Synchronizing crop settings 2m 36s
Exploring how to improve the composition of your photographs 2m 6s
8. Retouching Tools 15m 55s
Retouching with the Spot Removal tool 8m 26s
The Spot Removal tool: Clone versus Heal 4m 56s
Fixing red-eye 2m 33s
9. Using the Graduated Filter 16m 43s
Introducing the Graduated Filter 5m 14s
Darkening the sky with the Graduated Filter 6m 10s
Enhancing a sunrise with the Graduated Filter 5m 19s
10. Making Localized Adjustments 45m 51s
Adjustment Brush overview 7m 45s
Using Auto Mask 5m 55s
Burning and dodging a black-and-white image 6m 44s
Reducing noise 5m 40s
Minimizing moiré patterns 3m 18s
Painting in localized sharpening 2m 14s
Improving the eyes 4m 6s
Dimishing a distracting highlight 3m 42s
The Adjustment Brush and Basic panel workflow 6m 27s
11. Modifying the Tone Curve 15m 38s
Demystifying the Tone Curve controls 5m 5s
Using the tone curve to correct exposure 2m 16s
Changing tone and color with the the point tone curve 3m 39s
Making creative RGB adjustments 4m 38s
12. Changing HSL and Color 13m 36s
Understanding the HSL controls 4m 4s
Using the HSL Target Adjustment tool 1m 40s
Brightening tones with HSL 3m 21s
Using HSL to bring out warm and cool tones 1m 47s
Creative color with HSL 2m 44s
13. Converting to Black and White 36m 35s
Introducing black-and-white conversion 2m 38s
Converting to black and white 2m 16s
Modifying black-and-white tones with the Grayscale panel 5m 26s
Enhancing black-and-white images with the Adjustment Brush 9m 4s
Using presets to convert to black and white 5m 13s
Black-and-white workflow with virtual copies 5m 29s
Black-and-white images and collections 4m 22s
Creating better black-and-white photographs 2m 7s
14. Creative Color with Split Toning 14m 2s
Split-toning essentials 3m 34s
Advanced split-toning tips 2m 44s
Split toning a color image 3m 5s
Split toning to create a sepia-tone effect 2m 22s
Using split toning to enhance a sunrise 2m 17s
15. Noise Reduction and Sharpening 12m 21s
Introducing noise reduction 5m 10s
Understanding sharpening 5m 2s
Sharpening workflow 2m 9s
16. Making Lens Corrections 13m 35s
Using the Lens Correction controls 1m 56s
Correcting distortion 2m 45s
Making subtle adjustments to composition and tone 4m 10s
Removing fish-eye distortion 3m 18s
Removing chromatic aberration 1m 26s
17. Adding Vignette and Grain Effects 12m 55s
Adding and correcting vignettes 2m 24s
Using the Post-Crop controls 4m 5s
Adding a post-crop vignette 4m 26s
Working with film grain 2m 0s
18. Using the Camera Calibration Controls 5m 34s
Understanding camera calibration in Lightroom 3m 20s
Creative color with camera calibration 2m 14s
Conclusion 21s
Goodbye 21s
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