A Beginner's Tour of Photo RAW - ON1 Recorded Webinar

so inside photo ah you start instead of the Browse module so inside of the Browse module this is where you're going to find your photos and you can also organize inside of the browser module by rating in Kolding well inside the browser module let's just start with this left side over here and we're gonna start with this Browse tab right here so inside of our Browse tab don't worry about this area right here with catalog folders your the more you start using the program you'll definitely get into catalog folders but for just now let's worry about this area right below that and that's our local drives we have our local drives right here and this is going to house anything that's mounted or stored on our computer so if you have an SD card an external hard drive or your actual computer computer's hard drive that's where you can view these areas on this folder right in this area here if you plug in on the ste card you can instantly see that SD card and you can immediately start browsing through those photos you actually don't have to import anything into photo raw to start using the program of course you can import so if you do want to import and that's your prerogative which a lot of photographers really like to import their photos so if you want to import your photos head up to your top bar here go into file and then you can just click import and so now we have our import dialog we can choose a source so we can go and choose an SD card or an external hard drive or whatever folder we want to import from and it will import in there and we can choose all of these different modifications for importing but if you don't want to import and you simply just want to browse your photos this is a really good place to start below our local drives we have our cloud storage and cloud storage is an awesome way to keep track of your photos so you have access to them across all of your devices and one of my favorites is my Dropbox so connecting a Dropbox or a Google one account or a Google Drive account is really easy with in photo ah just click on this and it will it will navigate to you how to find the Dropbox folder and you can easily install it to use it with photo ah so now that we know where to find our photos within these local hard drives let's go ahead and browse through these different photos to show you how easy it is to find your images so inside of my local drives here I think the majority of my photos were kept just on an external hard drive and I usually keep them on this DK my passport and I actually just bought this hard drive about a month ago so there's not too many files on it so we'll just go into this hard drive right here so let's say I'm you know I've inserted this hard drive into my computer I can just click on it and these are all of the different photo folders on that hard drive well in this middle area of photo Raw this is where you're going to view the photos and all of the different folders so if I want to make these thumbnails bigger pull this over here so if I want to make these thumbnails bigger an easy way to do that is just to go down right in this area here and I can modify the thumbnail size with this slider right here to either make them smaller or bigger depending on however I want to look at them so if I want to go into a folder there's two different ways I can do that so I can actually just click on the folder preview and it'll take me into that other folder or I can go into my local drive section here and I can just use these arrows and I can navigate to that folder manually but once we go into a folder here you can see that we have all of those different photos that live within that folder and you can look at these photos just by double clicking on them and now we have our detail view for that image and there's a few different ways that we can actually view the photos or our library of photos inside photo row so this first view is our detail view mode you can also access that by hitting e on your keyboard well we were just in our grid View mode so if we want to go back to grid view mode where we have a row of different thumbnails we can just hit G on our keyboard so G has taken us back into our grid view where we have all of these different thumbnails inside of our folder but if we want to go back into detail we can just hit E on our keyboard and another fast way to look through your photos is to pull up your filmstrip EEMA which you can access by hitting F on your keyboard so now I have all of these different photos that I can browse through on the bottom of my photo while it's pulling up a thumbnail preview of the actual photo up top I'm just gonna go back into detail view mode and then I'll hit G and I'll actually go back into grid view mode and so inside of brows like I was saying earlier it's kind of the place you want to find your images well it's also an area that you can organize as well so if I want to organize inside of brows I can do a few different things to do that one of the things that I can do is I can create subfolders within folders really easily so if I want to create a subfolder I can just select a group of photos oops I should probably hold down shift and once I have that group of photos selected I can just right click and I can add a subfolder so I can just type in each scene and if I click Add it will move all of those photos into a different subfolder so if I have a subfolder like I do in here an easy way to organize folders or photos is just a drag-and-drop so if I wanted to drag the subfolder into a different area on my hard drive I could just click on that and I could drag it into a different area on my local drives or my cloud storage also in brows one thing that I really like to do is I'd like to create albums and creating albums just allows you to access photos quickly whenever you reopen the program so for webinars every time I have a new webinar I go in here and in my albums pane I used this plus button and I click on it I create an album and I always create a new album for my webinar so next weeks I think is creative editing with filters so now when I prepare for this webinar I can go in and if I go into a subfolder here let's say I want to add a few of these photos I can just click on these shots I can drag them over to my creative editing with filters album it's drop them in there so now if I close the program or I leave into a different module and I go back into browse I can always go back into this album and if I click on it there's those photos that I have stored on that album well one album I made was this guided tour so I have an album made with a few different images that I want to show you how to edit so when we're inside of browse and we found a photo let's take a look at this photo for example let's say we're looking at this photo instead of browse inside our detail view mode well let's say we want to go in and actually edit the shot a quick way to transfer between modules is to use your keyboard shortcuts so to transfer between my brows module into my edit module I usually hit the D key on my keyboard so if I hit D on my keyboard by hitting D on my keyboard that's going to tell photo ah to take me into my develop tab inside of my edit module so now I'm inside of my edit module and this is where we're going to actually modify our image this is where we're going to apply different adjustments creative filters and local adjustments so for those of you who are just starting out with photo aa I'm just going to do a quick overview of the edit module here so in the end of module to the left over here is going to house your tools so all of these different tools are what you can use to fire image now if you're not sure what that tool does just simply hover over it it will give you a little animation of what that tool does and you can also click on this learn how button and I will send you to a video that will explain how to use that tool so just hover over the tool and it will give you a nice description of what that tool does to the right of that we have our presets now this is just going to house all of the different presets inside photo raw it comes with a bunch of different preset presets that are already loaded into the program but you can also add in custom ones or import ones that you've downloaded from on one or gurus or whoever it might be so this is our preset pane here and if you're not really interested in presets or you just want to hide this to have a bigger view of your photo go down here into the left corner right here you can click this button and it will hide that preset pane so now I have a larger view of this image and it makes it easier to edit so obviously in the middle of the frame we have our photograph so this is going to show our picture and then to the right over here we have our top pane which is going to give us our navigation so if we want to zoom in we can click on these four icons here either 150 25 and then we have levels which is going to show us our histogram we then have info which is going to give us our camera info and our metadata and then we have history so this history pane is going to show us all of the edit history and adjustments we've made to this image so I'm actually going to leave this history pane open while we edit this image so you guys can see all of the different adjustments that we make to it and once we've made any adjustments if we go back into our info pane here this settings applied area if we click on it we should have some different settings applied and some different highlighted areas in the settings applied section so we'll go back into this history pane over here to leave this open well below our history pane we have our layers here so this is going to house all of the different layers that are on this canvas so we only have one here because we've only opened up one photo but we can use these different buttons down here to add and modify different layers because this is a beginning webinar we're probably not gonna get too deep into layers if at all but just to know that it's right there this is your layers pane below that we have the different tabs inside of our edit module and this is probably where you're going to be spending the majority of your time are in these four tabs here so this first tab here is our develop tab and the develop tab is great for modifying the raw data in your image or if it's a JPEG just the data and your photo you're going to be adjusting the exposure the contrast sort of setting your foundational look for the image and inside this tone and color pane we also have our color so we can modify the color to correct for color casts and remove too much saturation below that we have details so we can actually use this to modify the different sharpening and noise reduction and then we have lens correction which is automatically going to detect a lens for you so let's actually start out with this the tawny color pane and the first thing we're going to do this photo is we're gonna crop it real quick so as I go into the edit module one thing I like to do when I first start out is I crop my shot and then I go into tawny color so let's start out with those two areas first and then we'll move on to our effects and our local adjustments tab so I've just gone into the edit module by transferring from browse and I'm like what should i do first well I really like to crop first so for this particular photo because I do have a horizon line here it'd be great to see if it was level and I'd also like to remove this kind of blurry head from the bottom of my frame so to grab your crop tool and if you're not familiar with the keyboard shortcuts in fedora all you have to do is hover over one of the tools and it'll show the name of the tool here right here and then in parenthesis it will give you the keyboard shortcut to grab that particular tool so for crop it looks like it's a C so I'm just gonna hit C on my keyboard and now I have my crop tool so for this particular shot I think we just need to check the leveling and then pull up on it to remove this little head here so to make sure it's level I go up to my leveling tool right here and I can click on it and if you click down you can drag on a horizon line and it will straight in your photo or not straighten it will level your photo automatically for you and now I can just pull up on it a little bit there we go and I've removed that head sitting there from the bottom of my frame so that's the crop and so now we've cropped the photo we can head into our develop tab and now we can start actually making different adjustments using our tone and color and if we go to our history pane here you'll notice that it says crop so it's actually recording that we've made that adjustment and it's showing us that we've cropped our photo if we go into our info pane here we go to settings applied we have crop and level is highlighted telling us that we've modified our crop okay so instead of the develop tab with our toning color one thing that I really like to do and I'm sure if you've watched webinars in the past you've seen me doing this but I typically shoot raw and it's not a big deal if you don't shoot raw you know a lot of people shoot with compressed files and that's completely fine but one thing that I like to shoot in RAW for is the ability to change my camera profile and this area this camera profile section can apply a lot of style in detail with just one click so one area I like to check out before I you know modify any of this area inside of my tone is I go into my camera profile and I usually put it on on one landscape just to see what it does to my shot and I can see that it's brightening it up a little bit too much so I'm actually just gonna leave my camera profile the standard but just keep in mind that you do have all of these different camera profiles that you can access within this tone and color pane and so inside our tone we have the you know kind of normal sliders for adjusting a photo we have our exposure or contrast our highlights or mid-tones well one thing that you can use to really help out when you're modifying the exposure is to hold down your J key and a lot of people don't really know this but if you hold down your Jake it will show you your true white and your true black in your photo so if I hold down my J key here there's nothing being shown on my shot because there isn't any true white or true black but as I start to pull up on the exposure here maybe a little too much so start to pull up on the exposure here you can see that there's true white coming into my frame well this is a good way to show that you're over exposing your image so whenever you're modifying this exposure slider it's always a good idea to hold down your J key and then if you're removing exposure or let's say we have our exposure set and we add in contrast if we add in too much contrast it'll show us our true black without any detail in blue so these are just a few different ways that you can show yourself either a I'm over exposing this image or B I'm adding in too much black so we'll just set the tone here and I'm actually just gonna pull back on the exposure a little bit just to bring a little bit more detail under these clouds and by pulling back on the exposure I'm obviously removing brightness from the image well the cool thing about photo raw here is we have this mid-tone slider which really helps pull out areas on a subject and so your mid-tones are probably your grayish tones in your photo so there's a lot of gray tones sort of in this rock here so if I pull up on my mid-tones it's just bringing in a little bit more of that mid-tone boost to the rock so that I can see some more of that detail and now let's go down and I'm probably just gonna pull back on my black slider to add in some contrast and whenever I'm pulling back on my black Sider I typically hold down on my jakey because watch as I pull back on my blacks well maybe not but if it were an image that had a lot more contrast you could see the contrast right away but this image is pretty flat so we can pull back on the blacks quite a bit perfect and you can see up here in my history pane that this is recording all of the different adjustments for this photo so let's say I wanted to go back from that black point and my mid-tones so let's say I just wanted to go back to when I modified my exposure well I could go to this history paint here and I could just click on exposure and now it's taking me back to where I have no mid-tones or blacks modified and so you'll see up here in my history pane here that these two areas are unhighlight 'add well watch as I go down and make another adjustment I'll just pull up on the shadows this time you'll see that after I pulled up on the shadow tones it removed those top two and put in that other history element well that's because it removed those two adjustments that I made when I click below back to the exposure so now I'll just add in a little bit more true black like we did earlier and then I'll warm up the photo a little bit by going to my color paint here and if you're shooting in RAW and you're going in to modify your color and it's showing up as zero and not as a Kelvin you can click on this K and now it will show up in Kelvin so now I can pull up on my temperature slider to warm up the photo a little bit perfect so when you go into the Edit module those are probably the first two things that I like to do is crop and then set the basic tonality for the photo so after I've set the foundational look for my image I typically like to go into effects and this is where I start adding different creative styles to the image so let's go into effects here and in our effects tab this is where we're going to add in different filters to our image and on one photo raw has a ton of different filters already pre-loaded into it so if I select add filter I can see I have all of these different filters that I can apply to the image and if I'm confused on what a filter does or I need a better understanding of what that looks like on my shot you can just hover over any of these filters it will give you an explanation of what that filter does and it will also show you what before and after with that filter being applied to a photo another cool thing is you can actually search for filters with keywords so let's say I'm in filters and I want to apply a filter that that adds detail I can just type in detail and now I have all of these different filters that will allow me to apply detail to my photo well let's actually add this dynamic contrast filter here so now we've added that dynamic contrast filter to our image so if I turn this filter off and on you can see it's applying a nice bit of detail to our photo well inside all of these different filters every single one of these filters in here there's a bunch of different options that you can use to modify each of those filters so inside this dynamic contrast filter and probably ninety percent of the filters it's going to be the filter name opacity so you can change the opacity of that filter there's going to be a row of preset styles and then a more menu that you can choose from and then you're going to have different adjustments and modifiers that you can use to either crank up the contrast or remove it from your photo so inside dynamic contrast you can see we have these three different main sliders that we can use so we have small detail medium detail and then we have large well watch as I pull up on this small detail you'll see it supplying detail to the small contrasted areas on this photo so that's an easy way just to go in and modify your filter and remember each of these filters is going to have different adjustments that you can use to modify it let's say I've gone in and I've modified a filter so we'll pull up on the small a little bit maybe I'll pull up on the shadows add some black some white and then we'll get in some color with some vibrance well well let's say I really like that filter and I want to add that style in so that I can apply it later whenever I applied this filter to other photos so if you have a style in one of these filters that you like you can actually save it as a preset so I can go into this more area right here and if I click more I can go down to save new style and I'll just save this as fav dc4 favorite dynamic contrast so if I hit enter now I can go into that more and I can click on that fav DC style and it will apply that preset style to my images so inside of effects that's how you add in a filter and you adjust the different styles within that filter well another area that you're probably most likely going to be modifying photos in is this local adjustment tab here so inside of our local adjustment tab this is where we're going to use different local adjustments to modify our image and local adjustments work a little bit differently than effects whereas local adjustments aren't applied to your photo automatically so you'll remember that when I added that filter inside of effects and I turned it off and on it was applying detail to the entire image well you'll see here if I turn this adjustment off and on nothing is happening well that's because we have to with selectively apply local adjustments to our photo using different masks so with a local adjustment if we go into our local adjustment masking options here we can see that our masks view is completely black that's because it's revealed that's been sorry that's because it's concealing the entire local adjustment from the photo so white reveals and black conceals so if we want to apply this adjustment to our photo we're going to have to do it using either an adjustment brush or a local adjustment gradient well for the purpose of this webinar we're just going to start out with the adjustment brush so whatever I add in a local adjustment layer it's giving my giving me my local adjustment brush already you can see I have my local adjustment brush with this circle and then the plus sign within it well over here you can see that that local adjustment brush is selected because it's in blue well any of these tools over here are going to have a top tool modifier bar section so when I select a tool from this area I'm going to have different modifiers that I can use to adjust the power and the impact of that tool on my photo well for this particular tool right here I have my adjustment brush selected and if I hover over it it's telling me that I can also grab my adjustment brush by hitting K on my keyboard so K will take you to your adjustment brush and I also have my mode right here which is telling me it's set to paint in and there's two modes paint in and paint out well paint in is going to paint in an adjustment or a filter whereas paint out is going to remove an adjustment or a filter and then if you're familiar with brushes we kind of just have you know basic digital brushing options we have our size our feathering for the hardness of the edge and then our opacity for you know how little or how much of that adjustment we paint on so for this particular photo here I'm actually gonna raise my brush size with the bracket keys on my keyboard so I'm just hitting the right brackets on my keyboard and I'm just gonna brush this adjustment on the bottom area of my photo here boom so I brush it so I brush that adjustment on the bottom area of my photo so now if I go over to my local adjustment tab here I can see that in this mask view there's a little bit of white on the bottom so if I view this mask I can see that this white area on this mask view is representing where I've brushed that adjustment on so if I go back and view this photo and I turn this off and on you can see that adjustment is strictly being brushed on to the bottom part of this image well in this adjustment I can always go over and I'll just actually lower the opacity so that's not so strong on my photo well there we go I think it does a good job of just kind of toning down the look on the water a little bit so now if we go back into effects here and we go into our dynamic contrast filter we can access the masking options for that dynamic contrast filter by clicking on this masking icon here so before when we added that filter and we turn it off and on it was applied to the entire photo already well that's because this mask view if I view this mask it's entirely white because white reveals and black conceals so because this mask view is white its revealing this entire dynamic contrast filter on to our photo well inside the masking options here one basic thing that will really save you a lot of time when masking is just to hit this invert button if you want to brush it on selectively so if you want to do like we did with the local adjustment layer and just brush it on to an area that we want we'll just click invert here and so now the mask view is completely black and whenever we're modifying masking options in a filter we're going to be using our masking brush now over on this left side you'll see that we have our masking tools selected whereas before we had our local tools selected well are masking brush and our adjustment brush are the exact same thing they do the same thing they can be modified the same ways the only only difference between the adjustment brush and the masking brush is that the adjustment brush is strictly for local adjustment layers whereas the masking brush works on effects and layers so because we're working inside of the effects tab and we're working with filters we're going to be using our masking brush you can also grab your masking brush by hitting B on your keyboard so with our masking brush selected right here we now know that if we want to paint in an adjustment or a filter we have to change our mode to paint in I can also change the size of my brush by using the bracket keys on my keyboard so I'm just going to lower my brush size with the left bracket key and my feathering and my opacity is at a hundred now I'm just gonna brush this dynamic contrast strictly onto my rock sweet so now if we go over to that dynamic contrast filter and we view our mask you can see where we brushed it on - and that white is representing where that filter is being applied to on our image so now if I view that photo again and I turn this dynamic contrast filter off and on you'll see it's strictly being applied to the rock area and it's not being applied anywhere else on this image and so if we go up under our history tab you can see that it has all of those different adjustments that we've applied to our photo and then if we go into our info pane inside of our settings applied we have a few different areas where we have a bunch of settings applied to this image so let's move on to another photo and we'll move on to a more advanced editing technique and we'll use different gradients so let's go back into browse here and one thing I can do to transfer between the modules and go back into browse is just to hit G on my keyboard so if I want to go back into browse from edit I can just hit G on my keyboard and it will take me back into the Browse module awesome so let's go back into that album real quick and we'll grab another photo here unless I actually work on this be shot and again so I have this photo selected I'm in detail view mode and I can know I'm in detail view mode because if I look down here in this area right here I can see that my detail View mode one is selected whereas this is grid and this is filmstrip so detail View mode and now if I want to go into the develop tab I can just hit D on my keyboard so now that we're in the develop tab here we can go up to our history pane and you'll see we have nothing applied to the shot yet and in our info all of our settings applied is set to nothing so again whenever I go into the edit module the first thing I probably do is I like to crop the photo so again we can just hit C on our keyboard that will grab my crop tool and by grabbing my crop tool I have again if I choose any of these tools up here I'm gonna have a top tool modifier bar within my crop tool modifier bar I can choose a preset crop with this menu here if I choose original ratio I can actually modify the ratio customize ibly and if I want to make this a vertical image I can just go in between the width and height and I can click it and I will switch it to a vertical or a landscape it's gonna switch it back here and I think a 4x5 looks pretty good yeah we'll just leave it at that we'll just pull this over a little bit more perfect okay so now let's hit enter on our keyboard and we have a cropped photo so now that we've cropped our photo we can head into the develop tab here and we can go over to our tone and color pane and this camera profile let's check and see what happens boom I mean a huge difference just by using a different camera profile so if I turn this off and on you can see that on the landscape profile really brings out some detail some contrast and pulls up some exposure from the photo so now inside of my tone and color paint I don't really have to do too much to this image to make it pop all I'm gonna do is I'm going to pull up on the exposure a little bit I'm gonna pull back on the highlights I'm gonna boost the mid-tones a hair and then I'm gonna pull back on the whites a little bit so if I hit the backslash key my keyboard we have a nicely cropped photo and we sort of set the foundational look for the shot already so let's go into effects here and we'll add a filter and one of my favorite filters to add on the photos is this curves filter here and inside the tone curve a lot of people don't like to add the tone curve because it seems a little daunting but the tone curve is an awesome awesome filter that really allows you to pull out all of the tones within a photo so inside the tone curve here an easy way to explain it is this left area is your shadow tones or your blacks this middle area is your mid-tones and then we have our highlights so in this area down here between our mid-tones and this black point is gonna be shadows so if I pull on this line right here and I pull up its going to reveal shadow tones and if I pull it down its going to add in shadow tones to add in contrast well a fun thing with the tone curve is you can actually modify this curve to pull down shadow tones and boost mid-tones so if I pull this down a little bit prob about right there to add in some shadowy contrast well I can go back and I can boost the mid-tones a little bit and now we'll add in a nice bit of color to this photo well one cool thing about photo ah is that you can access a lot of the different masking and blending options for any of these filters local adjustments or layers really easily and blending modes can be really kind of daunting as well but there's a couple that are really really simple and anybody can use them so we'll use one of those right now so inside of my curves pane here if I turn this off and on you'll see it's brightened up the color brought back some nice saturation in this photo but it's added in a ton of contrast and there's a lot of black where there could be some detail so what I want to do with this tone curve here is i strictly want to apply it just to the color so that there's no tonal contrast so if i want to do that i can go into my curves filter here and if i click on this blending mode icon now I have my blending options well this is going to show me all of my blending options so if I click on this mode here don't pay attention to any of these just yet I know there's a ton and they can be really confusing but just strictly pay attention to these two here this luminosity and color the luminosity blending mode is strictly going to apply whatever filter or local adjustment to the luminosity or the tones in your photo so that's basically going to apply adjustments to the brightness and the contrast and the tonality is in your image whereas this color blending mode is strictly going to apply it to the colors in your photo so now if I click on this color option and if I go back to normal see how it's it adds back in all of that contrast but if I go down in the color it only applies this tone curve to the color so that's just a quick way that you can boost up color strictly by using this a gear icon here so I really like what this color is doing to this B here but I feel like it's a little bit distracting in this flower area so if we want to apply just this color tone curve to our B we can do it by using a masking bug so there's masking bugs and adjustable gradients so if I want to use a gradient to selectively apply this curves filter I can grab my masking bug by hitting M on my keyboard so I'm in my tone curve filter and I've hit em on my keyboard so now if I go over to my my tools over here you can see that this mask tool section is highlighted again but if I go up to the tool modifier bar here this middle tool is being highlighted and not my masking brush while your masking brush works like a masking brush wood and it brushes on different filters and layers but your masking bug works by using gradients to do the same thing so with your masking bud you can use different shapes to modify and blend layers and filters and local adjustments so now that I have my masking bugs selected here I can choose a different preset and if we go into the preset menu here and if you look at these different thumbnails I don't know if you can see them very well but you'll notice that on the thumbnails there's an area that it has black and an area it has white well in these thumbnails that's showing me the area that that filter is going to be revealed and where the filter is going to be concealed well because I want this filter only revealed on to the right area the area in your mind be here I can go up to my preset menu and I can choose linear left because I can see that that white area is on the right side of my frame well to black that's going to conceal all of that filter is applied to the left so now if I drop this down here and I turn this curves filter off and on and you it's kind of hard to see but if you look just strictly in the B here and I turn this goes for the first filter off and on see how a boost of the color in this region only and it leaves this left side of the frame alone well that's because I'm using a masking bug and the cool thing about the masking bug is that you can actually modify the feathering and the rotation really easily so inside this masking bug if I want to move the masking bug I can grab this big handle right here and I can move it around if I want to feather the masking bug I can feather with this perforated edges right here so I can either make it a little more feathered or a little less feathered and by feathering I mean the softness of the edge so if I go into my curves filter here and I view this mask you can see that the softness of the edge is right here and this left side where the black is there's nothing being applied and this right side where the white is is where that curves filter is being applied another cool feature with masking and the basics of masking is just a copy and paste masks so with this area I can see that this curves filter is only being applied to the right side of my photo well if I want to use this same sort of mask and apply settings to the same sort of area I can actually copy that mask and apply it to different filters so if I go in here and I copy this mask I can add a filter and I'll just add a vignette and if I turn on big softy you can see it as an awesome job but it kind of tones down this area to the right here and I don't really like what that's doing around this kind of winged area so if I go into my masking options I can paste this mask that I just copied and you'll see by pasting that and I view this it's applying that filter to the right side of my frame so if I view this photo and turn this off and on it's strictly applying that vignette to the right side well if I want that oppositely applied I can just click invert here and now it's applied to the left side of my frame so now if I turn that vignette filter off and on does a good job of kind of toning down these highlights in this flower area okay so now we can move on here and let's actually go into our local adjustments tab and let's add our in this new local adjustment layer I'm actually gonna go in here and I'm gonna go into more and I'm gonna choose magic eye fixer so with this magic eye fix her it's raising the exposure it's adding some structure and it's removing some haze so that's just basically going to boost up some exposure add in some detail so if we want to add in a little bit more detail and sort of a exposure boost to this area on our B here we can just use our masking brush to do so so I'm just gonna use my bracket keys on my keyboard and now I'm just gonna brush this on and with local adjustment layers whenever you apply a local adjustment layer and it seems too strong what I like to do is I'll head over to my local adjustments tab here I'll go into my opacity and I can lower that opacity to zero then if you incrementally pull it up it can really help to save some time and also make it look a let make it look a lot less crunchy and oversaturated sweet so now let's go back into our develop tab here and let's say we've modified this photo quite a bit so we have some different adjustments applied to the shot well there's a few different ways that we can actually save these settings as a preset so if we want to save these settings as a preset one way we can do that is we can head up to our top bar here we can click settings and then we can click save settings as a preset another way to do that excuse me inside of each of these tabs except for our portrait and our local tab inside of the develop tab here we have this icon right here to the left this icon is save preset so if you click this icon it's going to pull up your save preset dialog and now inside this save preset dialog we can use this to modify which adjustment we want to add into this preset so we could just name this be macro and we could go into this menu here we could add a new category if we'd want by clicking on this top bar here you could add in a new category bees and then in here we can choose different adjustments to add into this preset so if I wanted to add in that crop and level I could do that if I retouched I could do that if I added text I can go into my develop tab and I can modify each of these different adjustments so if I don't want you know let's say contrast or I don't want shadows I can turn those off to modify this preset and if I want to add in the masks that I used I can actually go into my local adjustments and my effects and I can select apply masks and so whenever I add in this preset to a different photo it will automatically apply the masks as well you can also do the same thing by going into your effects tab here and right here to the left right next to our masking options for our filters or our effects tab as a whole as I can actually click this save preset icon as well

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Keywords: Photo Editing, Image Editing, Photo Editor, Image Editor, Lightroom Alternative, Photoshop Plug-ins, Lightroom Plug-ins, Lightroom, Photoshop, ON1, Photo 10

Id: TfkQl04acz4

Length: 45min 1sec (2701 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 23 2019