Lightroom Classic: Additional Image Processing Controls

Name: Lightroom Classic: Additional Image Processing Controls
Author: Jeff Shaffer

In these lessons, you’ll learn more about the Enhance Details feature in Lightroom, and how you can apply it to multiple images at once. You will also learn…

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Hello, in today's lesson, you'll learn more about the enhanced details feature in Lightroom. Edit in Photoshop, enhance details is available in the desktop version only at this time. Enhanced details is available under the photo menu. Enhanced details. Enhance details only works on raw files from cameras that have what are known as Bayer sensors such as those for major brands such as Canon, Nikon, Sony, and others, as well as Fuji's x trans sensors. A list of unsupported camera sensors and formats can be found in the online help menu accessible from Light Rooms help pull down menu. This page also explains the minimum system requirements to use this feature. To use it select the image that you want to enhance. Go to photo, enhance details. The image will load. You can mouse around the image and see with and without enhanced the effect there on the image. Once you're satisfied with this click on enhance. It will create another image, a DNG file, with an enhanced image here. So I can click both of these and do a comparison side by side. Here's the enhanced image. Here's the candidate image here. I zoom up on that, We'll sync the zooms. So we can look at them side by side. And see if the enhancement, achieved the desired result. Now, I would like to also demonstrate how you can use edit in Photoshop. I'll click on this image here. We're going to choose photo, edit, Adobe Photoshop which will take me to Photoshop with the image. Photoshop has more retouching options than Lightroom has as well as the ability to make precise selections, composite images. Here we are in Photoshop with our image. I'll begin by choosing select, subject. Photoshop recognizes the objects. Indicates the ones that are selected with a dashed animated line that appears around them. I can see that it's, did a pretty good job of selecting all the images although, it's missing some of this particular image here. So I will go to my quick select tool, hold down the shift key to put it into the add to selection mode. And I will make sure that it picks up the rest of that image there. From here, I will go to the layers panel. I will create a new layer via copy. Layer, new, layer, via copy, command, or control J. This will create a new layer of the selected area, of these images. Now that I have this new layer here, I will eliminate my bottom layer and I'll create a new layer below which I'll drag below here in the layers panel. This layer, I will create a gradient on the background using the gradient tool. I'll click on that triangle there. I'll click on that pull down menu there to choose blues, twirl that down and I'll choose a gradient that I like or maybe this one. With the gradient tool you can simply click and drag either horizontally, vertically, or at a diagonal to create a gradient. The distance that you drag will create either a very abrupt gradient or a much smoother, gradual gradient. And there you can see I have a new background behind the images. I do have a bit of a black line around some of these so I can modify my selection simply by clicking on that image there, holding down the command key and clicking on that thumbnail to re-select the images. Then I can go to my selection, select and mask. It will bring up a new interface here. I'll put it into a overlay view, so I can see a red overlay on what is being masked out. And then I can adjust my mask. So I'm going to shift the edge a bit to kind of bite into the image here. Let's do that. Increase the contrast, smooth the selection, adjust its radius. So you can see it starting to eliminate some of those black edges. I can view it on my layers now. See how it's looking on that. Definitely a little bit smoother. You can even smooth it a little bit more. And when I'm satisfied with that, I'll click okay. This point I can de-select my selection. And I would save the file. Once it is saved, if I go back to Lightroom. There you can see it is added in right next to the original image in my catalog with the file name, edit.TIF as the file suffix. So there you've seen that it's possible to use the enhanced details and edit in Photoshop and Lightroom classic. In the next lesson, we'll take a look at merge to HDR. Let's go check it out.

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Course Description

In these lessons, you’ll learn more about the Enhance Details feature in Lightroom, and how you can apply it to multiple images at once. You will also learn how to shoot and process High Dynamic Range (HDR) images using Lightroom Classic. HDR images extend the image capture’s tonal range significantly. It is a technique often used in landscape images shot in extreme lighting conditions.

What You'll Learn

Enhance photo details using the Enhance Details feature in Lightroom Classic
Apply detail-enhancement techniques to multiple images at once
Shoot and process High Dynamic Range (HDR) images using Lightroom Classic
Merge images to HDR and work with panoramas and HDR panoramas
Integrate Lightroom Classic with Lightroom for image processing

Key Takeaways

The Enhance Details feature in Lightroom can be applied to multiple images at once.
HDR images significantly extend the tonal range of an image capture.
HDR is a technique often used for landscape images shot in extreme lighting conditions.
The course covers merging to HDR, working with panoramas, and creating HDR panoramas in Lightroom Classic.
Lightroom Classic can be integrated with Lightroom as part of the image processing workflow.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It covers the Enhance Details feature in Lightroom and applying it to multiple images at once, plus shooting and processing High Dynamic Range (HDR) images using Lightroom Classic, including merging to HDR, working with panoramas, HDR panoramas, and integrating Lightroom Classic and Lightroom.

What is HDR and when is it used?

HDR (High Dynamic Range) images extend the image capture's tonal range significantly. It is a technique often used in landscape images shot in extreme lighting conditions.

What skills will I gain from this course?

The course develops skills in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Album, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Image Mastering API, Photographic Processing, and Progressive Enhancement.

What lessons are included?

The lessons are Enhancing Photo Details, Merging to HDR, Working with Panoramas, HDR Panoramas, and Integrating Lightroom Classic and Lightroom.