lightroom tips

Tutorial 26, Chapter 1 - Bethany

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In this tutorial we'll take a nicely lit studio portrait and turn it into a dreamy high key image fit for a magazine cover. We'll start off using Lightroom 4 in this first chapter to fix some levels and colour issues and produce a rather nice colour version of the picture. Then in chapters 2 and 3 we'll use Nik Silver Efex to turn that into a bright, clean high key black and white image.

This tutorial was recorded in 2012 but not released until 2013. When it was recorded Lightroom 4 was still pretty new and Google hadn't bought Nik Software yet.

Tutorial 26, Chapter 1 - Bethany

PW165 - Tutorial 22, Chapter 1 - Tender Touch

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Today we start a new tutorial working on a tricky image with strong shadows and highlights. We use Lightroom first to recover some detail on those areas and then we do a black and white mix to bring out interesting detail throughout. Add in some dodging and burning, vignette and an interesting split tone and we'll be all finished. This tutorial majors heavily on the decision making process with an image. I talk a lot about what I'm trying to achieve with the picture and how I'm going to get there.

 

PW165 - Tutorial 22, Chapter 1 - Tender Touch

PW138 - Tutorial 21, Chapter 1 - Northwest Wales Sunset

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Today we start a brand new tutorial showing how I turned a very challenging exposure into a very pleasing seascape with rich blue, purple and yellow tones using Adobe Lightroom and then Photoshop. In this episode I use colour balance and graduated filters to add the colour toning and some sky darkening. I also bring back detail in the very light and dark regions by using the fill light and recovery sliders.
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PW136 - Importing your photos from laptop to desktop using Lightroom

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In today's Lightroom video tutorial I show you the best way to take photos from your laptop to your desktop when you've been shooting and editing your pictures on the road. You can keep all your RAW files and the lightroom edits intact and still merge those pictures back into your master Lightroom catalog. Learn how..
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PW133 - Tutorial 20, Chapter 2 - Adding Fashion Labels to your Slideshow

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In today's free Photoshop CS5 tutorial we continue making our fashion label by using the quick selection and refine edge tools then add our text using the type tool and give it some shape and texture with layer effects and texture inside a clipping path.
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