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What's New in Lightroom 4 beta
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Everyone's talking about Lightroom 4 beta at the moment. But what is new in Lightroom 4 beta? Kate Breuer sums up the most important new features.
When you open LR4beta for the first time you will soon realize that there are new modules in the module bar. Kate Breuer explains the Map and the new Photobook modules and shows their possibilites.
In addition she explains the functionality of the new sliders in the Develop module. There are new ones and others have been replaced. This can be a bit confusing but you will like the new sliders soon.
Creating Film Grain
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Film grain makes a picture look like it was captured on film. This analogue effect is something, many try to achieve.
In this video, Kate Breuer shows different possibilities, to achieve this effect.
At first, Kate Breuer explains the usage of Lightroom (or another RAW converter tool) to create film grain using the effect panel.
Then, Kate shows, how to achieve the effect, once you are in Photoshop using grey layers and different Photoshop filters.
In addition, Kate uses two filters of the Niksoftware filter plugin ColorEfex Pro. Each of those solutions creates an analogue film grain effect, but each of them with different possibilities and advantages.
Watermarking in Lightroom
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With the advent of digital photography and the Web came one of the major benefits, sharing photographs online, to be viewed instantly by people around the world.
This has, however led to people's photography being used without their permission, thereby depriving them of potential financial reward and credit for their work. One way to help prevent this, is to watermark your photos. We've all seen photographs with either some text, or a logo, superimposed on a photograph to identify the photographer. Using an image manipulation program, such as Adobe's Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, it is possible to add a watermark, but without some considerable technical know-how, it's difficult to add one to multiple images.
This is where Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes to the rescue. In this tutorial, Mike Le Gray will guide you through setting up Lightroom so that you can batch-process your completed images, not only adding a watermark, but also converting color-space, file type, adding sharpening, etc.
Adjusting Angled Images
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When photographing without a tripod, one often gets angled images. To straigten them up is really ease, once you know how to. Learn it from Kate Breuer in this video.
Kate Breuer shows different solutions to straighten out angled images. She explains a way to adjust the angle in Lightroom using the Crop Overlay Tool.
As an alternative, she uses Photoshop's cropping tool and the ruler to straighten out the image, either estimating the right angle or letting photoshop set the rigth degree to rotate by.
Lightroom Smart Collections
Picture Import in Lightroom
Quick Ways to Rate Your Pictures
Summary:
One of Lightroom's main strengths is it's cataloguing and sorting tools, making organising your thousands of photos a breeze.
Mike Le Gray, a photographer and trainer, shares with us his methods of organising your photos in such a way that locating and working with them becomes almost effortless. He explains exactly what Smart Collections are and why we should use them.
He then goes on to illustrate the difference between these collections and the standard 'non-smart' collections. In the process, he throws in a few tips about rating with stars and colours, such as why you may want to use stars and colour labels, and why you can utilise this practise to further improve your Smart Collections. As we watch, we see how to set multiple rules in a Smart Collection and then how and why we may want to export one.
The Lens Correction Tool
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Once again in what is most probably the most popular RAW workflow program, we are taken through Camera Profiles by photographer and Lightroom aficionado, Mike Le Gray. He leads us through both automatic and manual lens corrections, as well as adding/removing vignetting, Chromatic Aberration and Camera Calibration.
He also gives us an insight as to how we can correct the perspective distortion we get when shooting up at a building. Whilst it can't always be corrected 100%, we can, in just a few simple steps, hugely improve the final image.
Double Processing
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Mike Le Gray shows us how, in this tutorial, we can make a single RAW image into a high range image, similar to when we process multiple exposures.
He explains how double-processing a single RAW file for a bracketed effect is actually pretty straight-forward, using smart objects within both Adobe® Camera RAW® and Photoshop® to blend two exposures. He gives us two ways of doing it, one by blending layers and the other, by using a layer mask.
So jump in and see how to bring out the dynamic range of your photos!
The Crop Overlay Tool
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In this tutorial, photographer Mike Le Gray takes us through the Crop Overlay Tool in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom. Not only does he explain the Crop tool itself, but he also shows us numerous ways to straighten our photos, both by eye and by using the Straighten Tool.
In addition to this, he shows us a fantastic new way to crop our images without any of the interface or tool palettes to distract us. This is a really handy little tip and he tells us that it'll knock our socks off!
The Spot Removal Tool
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Bonn-based photographer and trainer, Mike Le Gray, takes us through the paces with the Spot Removal tool in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® and also demonstrates how to create Virtual Copies of our photos.
He shows us that this tool is more than just something to remove dust spots on our photos and explains that not only is it a great tool for retouching your model's skin, but emphasises that as we're working on RAW images, the edits we make are completely non-destructive.
So, join Mike and see how you can incorporate this tool into your retouching workflow.
The Targeted Adjustment Tool
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Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® is a digital tool for cataloging and perfecting your photographs with the least amount of effort and is used by beginners and professionals alike.
This tutorial introduces you to the 'Targeted Adjustment Tool', which eliminates the need for masks when changing colour characteristics in your image. This highly 'intelligent' tool can detect the colour you wish to change and is capable of altering hue, saturation and luminance, simply with the drag of a mouse!
Join Mike Le Gray as he teaches you how to make the most of this amazing tool, so you can add it to your daily photo-editing arsenal.