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Hello people! Welcome to this video! I will show you here how to apply nice effects
on photos with Adobe Lightroom 5!
Check the quick index in the video description to look for your best photo effect!
Have a look in this show to get your first steps with this software, if you need.
Let's consider this photo and add a color filter. To do this, it's enough to use
Hue and Saturation in Split Toning section. The more Saturation you apply, the stronger
such filter will be. Remember that Highlights changes the color of the lighter parts of
the image. You may need to add colors for Shadows as well. Choose the
color through Hue.
Let's see how to make this picture Black and White. Simply go to Basic section, and
choose Black & White instead of Color. At this point you are done, but you can
improve this effect through the options in Basic section, turning on the Contrast.
You can even correct the single main colors through the H&W section more at the
bottom.
How about a Vintage effect? It is a way to make images a little older, like taken in
the 70's. In Basic section, increase Exposure and decrease Contrast a bit. Then, in
Split Toning, add warm colors for the Highlights and cold ones for the Shadows.
We can put vignetting on photos in one touch. In the Effects section, under
Post-Crop Vignetting, you can add one, and modify its properties through the
options below. Black and white aren't the only colors: we will see later the Radial Filter.
How to make a very old photo effect? Let's see step by step. Go to Basic section
and select Black & White. More at the bottom put Highlights and Contrast at minimum
levels, increase Shadows and Clarity at the max and decrease Exposure a little.
Now add the characteristic old color. Go to Split Toning and add for
both Highlights and Shadows a gold color with around a 50-60 value for Saturation.
The photo now looks good! We can further improve this effect adding a light vignetting
in Effects and some Grain, using its maximum Size and Roughness.
Let's see now some cool effects to make photos similar to paintings.
A Watercolor effect is made simply reducing details. In Basic section, put the maximum
Contrast, reduce a little Clarity and then go to Detail section, putting the maximum
Luminance level, and the minimum for Detail.
Another one is the Pastel effect, where your photo will seem made by hand. In Basic
section put Contrast at -100, Clarity and Vibrance at +100, and reduce a little
Saturation to make colors less strong. Then, in Detail section, put Amount
and Detail at +100.
Let's see now the Matte effect. This is totally made by the Tone Curve. Reduce
Highlights and increase Shadows as much as you like.
Let's see how to distort the photo. This can be used to change the point of view.
All is inside Lens Corrections, in Manual section.
Under Lens Corrections you can further put personalized points of view
through Profile section.
Last effect to see is the Gradient. Right below the Histogram, go to Graduated Filter.
Then click and drag on the picture. The black point is placed in between of the gradient.
Drag it to move the gradient. If you approach it, you can set the inclination.
To increase its feather, drag the external parallel lines. One side is the original
picture, the other side is set through the options inside the new window opened
on the right.
Under Edit section, you can change the modified side in any possible way, from
Saturation to Contrast. You can apply the effects going to Close. You can come back
editing the gradient going to Graduated Filter and clicking on the gray point interested.
Delete one gradient pressing Delete, using your keyboard. To add another
gradient, just click on New.
The I/O button turns on and off the effect.
New in Lightroom 5 is the Radial Filter. This sets a radial gradient. You can manage
it in the same way, as seen with the Graduated Filter. The inner side is the
original photo. The outer side is edited through the window on the right.
This can be used for a better vignetting effect, since you can even decide its color.
Use Invert Mask below to edit the inner side instead of the outer one.
If you like the effects just seen, you can download the presets in the video
description.
Check the other videos in this show, to get into Lightroom 5. Thanks for watching!