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Hello this is Eddie with Eddiemakes.com and today we are talking about the best photo
editing software! As you can see I have Adobe Lightroom open and because I don't like suspense
I'm just going to go ahead and say I love Adobe Lightroom -- it's perfect for weddings
and batch editing or just editing a whole bunch of photos at once (and even just one
photo if you want to mess with one photo) it's really intuitive and fun to work with!
This is actually a picture of my grandfather, here's my mother and my uncle. But I just
edited this pretty quickly and I got rid of a bunch of issues with it, check out all these
things that I took out! And they're just magically gone. Let's take
a look, let me make a virtual copy, and we'll play around with it. So here's a really quick
tour about why I love Lightroom. So! Zooming in, let's take a look at this
area. This is called the healing brush. If I turn it off, all of a sudden you see all
this muck. Getting rid of this thing right here was as easy as making this big enough
then clicking and dragging to a spot that's clean, and then letting go.
That's it! It's just gone. and I did it for all of these, just by clicking, dragging,
clicking dragging, letting go. clicking dragging, letting go.
Past that, I cropped it. I actually filled in the bottom down here too, because it was
a circular crop so I wanted to make that look right so I just copied some information (take
a look at the circles I copied) and it's just amazing!
Past that with the temperature (white balance) I warmed it up a bit (you can pick anywhere
you want), if you want just real world or if you want a little bit warmer and then tint
-- everything's just so accessible, take a look at this, exposure, and just watch this
histogram as it goes, it gives you all the information you need.
Of course I rarely look at that unless I'm trying to figure out whether I'm blowing things
out or not. But it's a lot of fun to play with and it's got -- check this out -- highlights
-- you can turn down the highlights without turning down everything else, you can just
turn down the highlights, so look at see all these whites up here? Watch up here. I'll
turn down the highlights and watch what happens to them. Just that section decides to fall.
So and then look at their faces, first they may be a little too blown (white/bright) and
then it's all recovered. Super fun, double click to bring it back to
the center. I bring the shadows up sometimes. Sometimes you think you want to raise the
exposure but that just makes it look washed out -- I actually ended up turning down the
exposure with this photo and turning up the shadows, and that's -- watch this section
-- that's just bringing this section up! So, on and on, you can change the whites,
the blacks, the clarity is fun, that's a fun little thing. Look at that! It's amazing what
it can do. Vibrance, which is different than saturation, so it's good to have the option.
Tone curve, both luma (which is everything, RGB) and just separated out, if you wanna
mess with the, with just the lower part of the reds and the upper part of the blues,
you can do it (this is new in Lightroom 4 so that's really cool).
I'm actually going to put that back because I just made it look horrible. Or I'll just
bypass it. And then going here -- luminance of every
single color (saturation and hue, too) IT'S AMAZING WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH THIS SOFTWARE.
Now of course I don't spend all this time, you know, doing this on every single photo,
but it's super powerful. You can actually click here too, and then click and drag and
target very specific areas, so if you want to, if you want to say well I want that blue
to be different, come down here, click the blue! And then all of a sudden you can see
it's pulling blue (it's also pulled magenta and purple because those are a part of that
blue). let me turn that off and move on.
Split toning -- I don't use this a whole bunch but it's fun. Let me try to do it quickly.
Andd I'm just making it look horrible but you get the idea -- highlights are blue, shadows
are red/pink. Moving on--
Sharpness -- this is good! This is a good thing. And then oh my gosh the noise reduction!
The noise reduction is friggin amazing. Now in this kind of picture, it's not showing
it, you know, as good as you can but just take a look at (I left the grain in because
I liked it) but take a look at all this grain. And just look at how this smooths it out.
Now obviously you lose some sharpness in the meantime, but it is AMAZING what that does
for some certain shots. It's just it's unbelievable. And then the color (I don't think I can show
you an example of this) , it's like red green and blue in where the blacks are, it shows
red green and blue (let me see if I can find an area that has...that...). No I'm sorry
I can't!
But this is amazing! This is an amazing tool. So, oh lens corrections -- oh my gosh, you
can get rid of chromatic aberration , which is like, you know, around windows, it's got
like a little green fringe kinda thing, you can get rid of that fringe automatically.
You can mess with the shape of the ..where is it... the shape of the picture if you want...if
there's some distortion, you just mess with it just like this, and then sometimes with
some lenses there's some vignetting too, so just based on the lens it just automatically
changes.
And then of course the old vignette. Which you can modify any way you want. Roundness...how
much do you want it to feather off, or do you want it to just snap, and obviously I'm
making it look horrible but you get the point!
Adding grain! Course on this picture we do not need to add grain at all. But it just
gives a lot more character to some photos -- the size and the roughness you can change.
So it is just fantastic what you can do with this thing!
And then past that, there are certain profiles that you can pick -- I have a few plugins,
something called vsco cam, but as you can see here I can change the color really easily,
and then some of these have profiles that will affect this.
Right now since I'm not using a Canon picture, it's not doing what I want it to do. But it'll
unlock certain parts of Lightroom that aren't even accessible because they're kind of in
the background. But it's just amazing. And then, just the fact going through the images,
you can flag images really really quickly, so if you did a wedding of 4,000 images you
can get through and just flag flag flag, unflag unflag and just burn through a whole bunch
of images at once. With photoshop you have to open every single one, and close every
single one. With this, they're all open, you just click to the side and you're good and
you NEVER CLICK SAVE, you just...whatever changes you make, they're automatically saved.
So, that is my vote for the coolest, best photo editing software -- you should totally
try it, I bet you anything, there's a free, a free demo you can try. Please download it!
And mess with it, play around with it. And ask me if you have any questions!
Hope you learned something. Bye!