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Hi, again.
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In this lesson, we're gonna be covering cropping
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and leveling, spot cloning and local adjustments.
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For me, cropping is one of the most important things
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you can do to your image.
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I like to crop for the image itself.
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Not for some arbitrary aspect ratio.
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I almost always start process of my images
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by cropping.
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Let's go ahead and try doing that now.
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I love the action in this image.
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I took this image recently on a trip I made
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to the Dominican Republic and we went
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to this lake where there were thousands and thousands
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of these flamingos and it was just a spectacular sight.
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What I wanted to do is capture a flavor
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of the motion that the flamingos took
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as they were taking off from the water.
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Now, what I want to do is I want to really focus
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the eye of my viewer into the flamingos themselves
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As you can see on the bottom of this image,
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I have a lot of negative space
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that really doesn't add a lot to the image itself.
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I wanna really focus in my viewer
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on the flamingos themselves.
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So, I wanna crop this image.
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I'm gonna create a more rectangular crop
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for this image.
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I can click on the crop tool up here
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on the upper right hand side of the Lightroom interface
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in the develop module or you can use the R key
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for crop on your keyboard.
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It's one of the easiest ways to get into
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the cropping mode.
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I'm gonna hit the R key and as you can see,
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the first thing that happens is I get an overlay
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over my screen, giving me the rule of thirds
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and that is the default overlay that you could have
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for the cropping tool and it's one of the most useful ones.
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As you look at the cropping tool,
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you can notice that what he has done,
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he has put a rectangle around my image
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and it has placed these little handles
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around the image at each of the corners
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and again, on the horizontal and vertical axis
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of the image itself.
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In order for me to crop the image,
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all I need to do is grab anyone of these handles
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and actually move them up
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and I wanna create a crop more like this.
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I may wanna crop a little bit on the right as well
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to really focus in the eye of the viewer
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onto my subjects.
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I wanna be careful as to where I am cropping the image.
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I don't necessarily wanna crop for example here
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on the right hand side.
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I don't wanna crop the neck of the flamingos themselves.
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I may actually not even crop on the right hand side at all.
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Once I'm satisfied with this crop,
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I can hit the return key and I will accept my crop.
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Remember Lightroom is a nondestructive editing tool.
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At any point in time, even though I've cropped this image,
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I could go back and re-crop my image.
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I can hit the R key again and re-crop the image
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to my heart's content.
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If we look here on the right hand side
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on the cropping tool panel, you'll notice
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a couple of different tools that you have
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at your disposal.
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The most important one to me is the aspect tool
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because this allows you to lock in your cropping tool
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to different aspect ratios.
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Let's say for example that you're limited
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to cropping your image to a specific aspect ratio.
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Let's say an 8 x 10 image.
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It will be hard to drag the controls of the handles
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in here to get that exact aspect ratio
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but what you can do is you can go over here
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under the aspect heading, pull down the little menu
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and Lightroom comes up with a bunch of different custom
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or default, I should say, aspect ratios
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that you can choose from.
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Let's say 8 x 10.
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I can click on the 8 x 10 aspect ratio.
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What you'll notice is it has a little lock
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now, kinda locked into place.
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It won't allow me to crop this in any other aspect ratio
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except an 8 x 10.
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I could do it in a vertical or horizontal axis
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if I wanted to by moving my mouse up diagonally to the right
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or down diagonally to the left.
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Let's say I wanna crop this image
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in a horizontal 8 x 10 aspect ratio.
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I can grab my handles and bring it out
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to that specific aspect ratio.
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Now, for this particular image,
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I don't wanna lock myself to a specific aspect ratio.
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I wanna have a more free form
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control over my cropping.
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I'm gonna grab this.
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I clicked on the lock and unlock the aspect ratio lock.
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Now, I can grab anyone of these handles
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and crop the image exactly the way I want to.
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Now, there's another way that you can use
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a cropping tool and that is by clicking along
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this little cropping rectangle or triangle here.
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I can click on that tool and now, I can draw
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on the image anywhere I please
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what my cropping area should be.
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It's another way of using the rectangle
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or cropping tool, I should say.
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In addition to cropping, the crop tool,
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also gives you the ability to straighten
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any crooked horizons you may have.
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Many of us have this problem where oftentimes
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we take an image and we look at our computer
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and we realize we didn't pay that close attention
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to the horizon and we need to fix that
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in post editing.
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Lightroom helps us do that very effectively.
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Let's take a look.
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Here's an image of some sandhill cranes
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in New Mexico during sunset and you can see
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that the horizon is not quite level here.
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Let's go ahead and try to level this horizon.
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There are a couple of ways in which you can do this.
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When you're in the cropping tool,
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you have this other section to the cropping tool
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that says angle and a little slider.
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I can take the slider and move it left to right
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to try to level my image and you can see
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what's happening here is that Lightroom
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is also placing a grid on the top of the image.
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So, it allows you to try to align any elements
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in the image that you are trying to key off of.
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For example, in this case, the water level
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but it's kinda difficult to move the slider
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and get everything perfectly lined up.
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Thankfully, Lightroom provides a much easier way
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to do this leveling.
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What you need to do is click on this little icon here
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next to the angle label and your mouse will turn
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into almost like a bubble level with a crosshair on it.
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And all you simply need to do with this tool
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is draw a line either horizontally or vertical
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that will then allow Lightroom
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to straighten out your image.
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Let's do that right now.
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I'm gonna click on this horizon line right here
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or this water line.
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Click in the left side and then I'm gonna draw a line,
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keeping that water line on the line
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that I've just drawn across the screen.
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Once I draw that line, and line it up
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as close to perfectly as I possibly can,
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I can let go of my mouse.
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In Lightroom, automatically levels your image out.
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You can see up here in the right hand side
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that this image just need a little bit of correction,
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1.52 degrees but it looks much nicer
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now that my horizon, my water line is level.
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Let's do that again with another image here
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of a lighthouse in Portland Maine.
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I'm going to go back into my crop tool
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by hitting the R key, click on the angle
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tool and I'm gonna draw a line here on my horizon
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to try to keep that horizon nice and level.
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Once I've done that, I can let go of my mouse
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and you can see this image needed
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quite a bit more correction.
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1.90 but now, my horizon is right and level.
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The way it should be.
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Now, this tool works not only for horizontal leveling
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but you can also use it for vertical leveling.
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Let's take a look at this other image.
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I'm gonna do leveling on this mast on the schooner.
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I'm gonna go back into my crop tool,
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click on the level tool and I'm gonna draw a line
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right across the mast.
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Right on the edge of that mast.
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On a vertical and now, you can see that the image
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was rotated 2.11 degrees to the left
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and now, my mast looks perfectly straight.
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Very easy to do.
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This is one of the best features in Lightroom,
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allowing you to level your images,
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as simply as drawing a line across your horizon.
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How many times have you taken an image
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and then when you reviewed it,
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you realized that you had a lot of dust
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on your sensor and you had all these different spots
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in your image or you took an image
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and you didn't realize that there was a power line
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behind it or some other obstruction
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that you wanted to remove.
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Well, this is where the spot cloning tool
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comes in handy in Lightroom.
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It helps you remove all of those issues
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that you may run across.
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Let's take a look here.
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Here's another image that I took in New Mexico.
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Again, these are both snow geese,
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as well as sandhill cranes during a beautiful
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morning sunrise but as you can see,
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up here on the upper right hand side,
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I have one big dust spot that was on my sensor
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or on my lens.
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I'm not exactly sure which and I wanted to remove that
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because obviously, that's very distracting.
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While the spot cloning tool is up here
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right next to the cropping tool on the right hand panel
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in Lightroom and you can go to it
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by hitting the Q key on your keyboard directly,
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that's a shortcut or simply by clicking
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on the little icon.
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Let's click on the little icon
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and work on this tool.
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Now, when you click on that icon,
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you see that the panel opens up
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and you have a couple of different options.
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You have, first, the type of
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cloning that you're gonna be doing
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if you're gonna be doing a cloning or healing
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and I'll go into the differences between those
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in a second.
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The size of the brush you're gonna be using,
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the feathering effect, as well as the opacity.
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And these sound a little daunting
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but I'm gonna go through them step by step
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and show you how this work.
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The first thing that we want to do is we want to clone
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this ugly spot that's on my image
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and one of the first things I need to do
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is I need to increase the size of my brush
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because right now, it's very small.
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As you can see here, it is smaller.
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Quite a bit smaller than the area
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that I want to clone but first, I'm gonna zoom in
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into that area and I wanna increase the size
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of my brush and I can do that by simply dragging
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the size slider here and you can see
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how my brush grows and shrinks
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as I move that slider or I can use the square bracket keys
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on my keyboard to step through the sizes
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until my brush is bigger than the spot
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I'm trying to clone out.
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Now, you'll notice that this brush or two circles,
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one inside the other and the property
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that determines the distance between those two circles
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is the feathering.
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What is feathering?
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Feathering allows you to control how soft or hard
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the edges are of your brush.
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If for example, I have a feather of zero,
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it means I have a very hard brush
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with very hard edges.
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If I have a feather of 100, what it means is that
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the edges that I am painting with, if you will
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or I'm cloning with are going to be soft
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and gonna blend in much better with my background
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and that's what the two concentric circles
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and to this between them designates.
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What this means is that in the interior part
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of my brush and will run across as another part
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of Lightroom and in the interior part of my brush,
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the effect, the action that I'm taking is being done
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at 100% strength and then the effect is feathering out
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or lessening from the interior circle
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to the exterior circle.
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Anything outside of the exterior circle
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is receiving no effect or no cloning
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but between our circle and the inner circle,
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it is being graduated between those two lines.
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Okay, in a case like this, I do want some feathering
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probably not that much as 100% but maybe
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let's go down to like say, a 75% or so.
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And all you need to do right now,
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if I wanted to clone this area is center the spot
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on my inner circle and click.
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And as we can see, what Lightroom did is,
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it sampled another area that it's going to use
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to copy and overlay over my destination area.
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Now, let's say that you didn't like the area
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that was sampled.
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You can grab the circle here and move it around
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and you can see that the arrow or the line
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that goes between the circle on the left,
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the source circle and the destination circle,
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there's a little arrow pointing,
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showing you what is being copied over
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and you can see as I drag this across,
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you can the effect in real time.
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And you can move this until you find
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a right spot that makes that area blend in
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with its background.
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You can no longer see that spot
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that we saw earlier.
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Now, what's the opacity?
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The opacity is how strong the effect is.
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In most cases, you wanna have 100% opacity
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but in certain cases where you're not trying
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to completely remove and encourage it into your image
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where there's a spot or a telephone line
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or something like that.
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You can decrease the effect by adjusting
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the opacity slider.
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Now, there are two types of cloning
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that you can do.
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Straight clone, which basically is copying
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the pixels from one area and placing them directly
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in the other area.
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In other words, sourcing the pixels
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from the source area and copying them
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over to the destination area
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In certain cases, that works really well
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and sometimes, not so well because you don't
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wanna copy pixel to pixel, otherwise,
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you may see repeating patterns in the scene.
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Oftentimes, using the healing brush
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as opposed to the cloning brush produces better effects
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and makes the image blend a little better.
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The difference between cloning and healing is that
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cloning copies pixel by pixel.
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Healing copies color but tries to retain texture
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in that scene so that it blends in a little better
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with a background.
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When should you use one over the other,
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it really depends.
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You gotta play with them and experiment them
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until you get the right effect that you're looking for.
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In this particular image, healing works better
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because I'm able to bring some other colors over here
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without creating a repeating pattern.
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If I try to do cloning, it may copy exactly
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this cloud pattern to my destination area
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and you may be able to see that repeating
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area very prominently.
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Okay.
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Let's take a look at another example.
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Here we have a cinnamon-colored black bear cub.
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I absolutely love this image
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but one of the problems with this image is
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if we look at the head of the cub,
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we see that there's some debris in the head
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and I want to remove that.
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In this case, I think the clone mode
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of the cloning brush tool will serve me better
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than the healing mode.
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Again, there are two modes to the cloning brush.
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There's a clone mode and a healing mode.
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It depends on the image that you're using,
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which ones gonna work best.
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For this one, I'm gonna to try the clone tool
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because there's a lot hair here,
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fur that I'm trying to clone from one place
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to the other to remove that blemish
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on the cub's head.
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I'm gonna select the clone mode
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in my cloning brush tool.
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I'm gonna place my mouse or my cloning tool
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over the debris and click and what you can see
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is that Lightroom has selected an area to clone
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from this area to my destination area
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to the debris that was in its hair
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and it did a fairly good job
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but it's not a perfect match because you can see
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the hair is not oriented in the same way.
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I may want to move this a little bit
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until I find an area that looks a lot more natural.
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And I think right about there, looks a lot better
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than what I had before.
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Now, as I zoom out on this image,
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you can see that I've completely removed
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that debris from the bear's head.
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Now, let's take a look at one more example.
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Here we have an image of some bison on the snow
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during the winter in Yellowstone
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and beautiful image except for some of these
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brightly colored poles that are really detracting
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from my image.
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The first thing I wanna do is I wanna remove those
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as quickly as I can.
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Now, you notice that these are poles.
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They're not specific dust spots like we saw earlier
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or little areas that we wanted to clone.
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These are much bigger in extensive areas
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that we want to clear up.
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The first thing I want to do is zoom in
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in one of these areas.
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Let's actually go to the right
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over here and bring in these poles into view
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that I want to clone out.
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The cloning brush allows you to not only do spot cloning
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but also paint cloning or brush cloning as well
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and that's what we're gonna do here.
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We're gonna select my healing tool
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and then we're gonna try now using the healing mode first
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to see how well that works and what I wanna do is
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click right where that pole is and start dragging down.
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Now, what you're going to see is you're gonna see
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this area kinda being masked out in white
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and that's okay.
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What we wanna do now is see what this effect
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is gonna look like.
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So, I'm gonna lift my mouse button
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and see how well, Lightroom did in getting rid
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of that pole and it actually did
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a really good job with the healing tool.
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I can now continue
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to clean out that area by painting some more with my brush.
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Now, I suspect that Lightroom is gonna have
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a little trouble in this transition area right here
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because the texture and the color is completely changing
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but again, as always I can move any one of these
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spots to actually match this line of snow
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to make it look a little more organic.
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I also wanna move this up a little bit
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because I'm seeing some red up here in this area
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and I can adjust the source area
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and the destination area as much as I want
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and I can have as many of these areas as I want
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in here as well and obviously, for this particular
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section in this particular image,
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I'm gonna have multiple cloning areas
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I'm gonna work with.
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Now, you can see this area over here
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on the right hand side, you can no longer see that pole.
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We effectively were able to remove it from the scene.
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I'm gonna use the before and after button
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or keyboard shortcut on my keyboard
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to actually bring that in and out,
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so you can see the difference,
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that's the before.
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And that's the after.
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Before and after.
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Pretty cool and effective.
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Now, you may have noticed that for this image,
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I had to do three different areas
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to clone out this one pole.
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Let's say for example that I made a mistake
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and I had an area that I needed to delete.
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I wanted to remove that area
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that I cloned and for whatever reason.
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Very easy to do.
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As you can see here, the three areas that I did cloning
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or designated by these three buttons.
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In the area that's active, it's designated
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by the button that's highlighted by that black marker
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inside of it but let's say I wanted to delete
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this one up here.
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I can click on the button.
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Select that particular cloning area
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and then simply hit the delete key on my keyboard
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and that cloning area complete disappears.
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It's one way to manage those cloning areas
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that you've done.
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I'm gonna bring that back by hitting the undo command
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or command Z or control Z on the PC to bring that in.
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And it's as simple as that.
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Remember what we just talked about
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about managing the areas that we cloned
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because those would come in handy
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in some other areas that we're gonna talk about
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a little later in this lesson.
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So far, when we made adjustments using the basic panel,
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we made what are called global adjustments.
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Meaning adjustments that apply to the entire image.
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Oftentimes, we need to make more localized adjustments.
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Now, we're gonna look at how to make local adjustments.
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And Lightroom provides a number of different tools
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to do that.
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How often do you take an image like this
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of a sunrise when you have such an extreme dynamic range
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where your foreground is all dark
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and your sky is all bright.
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Oftentimes, in order to make an image like this before,
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you would have to use what's called
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a graduated neutral density filter.
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I no longer carry those with me on the field
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because Lightroom provides a very similar tool
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to do that.
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We're gonna come over here, again,
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to a little toolbox on the upper right hand side
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and we're gonna select graduated filter
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or you can use the M keyboard shortcut
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to bring up the tool.
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I'm gonna click on that.
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This tool, what it allows you to do is apply adjustments
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to a part of the image separate from the rest
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of the image and you can do this to multiple
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different areas.
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When I click on the graduated filter tool,
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you'll see that I get a whole bunch of controls here
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for making adjustments to the image
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and coincidentally, these match a lot of the same controls
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that you have in your basic panel.
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You have exposure.
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You have contrast.
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You have highlights, shadows, even white balance
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and so forth.
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How do I use this?
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How do I use the graduated filter?
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In this particular image, I need to reduce
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the exposure on the upper half of the image
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but increase it on the bottom part of the image.
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What I need to do is simply
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with my mouse after I selected the tool,
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draw a line where I want that separation to occur.
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I'll click on my mouse and I'll draw down
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and what will happen is you'll see
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that there are three different lines
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that are drawn on your screen.
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And what this allow you to do is apply the effect
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that you control with the panel on the right
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independently on the top of the image
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versus the bottom of the image
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and the demarcation of that line is indicated
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by these three lines that I've drawn across.
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You have a couple of different options
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on adjusting these lines and I'll go into those
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in a second but first, let's apply our effect
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so you can see how this works a little better.
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I'm gonna decrease the exposure on the upper part
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of my image and I can just draw my exposure slider
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00:24:01,081 --> 00:24:02,121
down to the left.
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00:24:02,116 --> 00:24:04,856
Bring out some of the detail in the sky
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00:24:04,856 --> 00:24:09,056
and tone down that sun and you can see
529
00:24:09,057 --> 00:24:12,127
right here where the line of demarcation's taken place
530
00:24:12,123 --> 00:24:14,933
and I can move this line up and down,
531
00:24:14,933 --> 00:24:17,343
so you can see where the effect is.
532
00:24:17,339 --> 00:24:21,219
Now, as I mentioned before, there are three lines here
533
00:24:21,217 --> 00:24:24,147
and the three lines just as we saw before
534
00:24:24,142 --> 00:24:29,142
with the cloning tool, designate the level
535
00:24:29,239 --> 00:24:32,239
of hardness or the feathering that occurs
536
00:24:32,235 --> 00:24:35,495
between the upper part of the image
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00:24:35,496 --> 00:24:36,996
where the effect is and the low part
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00:24:36,995 --> 00:24:39,525
of the image where the effect is not applied.
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00:24:40,368 --> 00:24:42,868
Just to demonstrate that a little better,
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00:24:42,865 --> 00:24:45,215
what I'm going to do is I'm going to grab
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00:24:45,210 --> 00:24:49,180
the upper line and you can see what's happening here
542
00:24:49,175 --> 00:24:51,345
is that my effect is more feathered
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00:24:51,340 --> 00:24:53,720
between the top part and the bottom part.
544
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,760
My effect is being applied 100% here
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00:24:56,762 --> 00:24:58,502
in the upper part of the image
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00:24:58,502 --> 00:25:01,882
and then it's tapering down from 100%
547
00:25:01,881 --> 00:25:06,881
down to 50%, down to 0% depending on the distance
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00:25:07,487 --> 00:25:09,067
between these three lines.
549
00:25:09,927 --> 00:25:12,187
If I want to make that line a little harder,
550
00:25:12,190 --> 00:25:14,810
I can just bring those three lines together
551
00:25:14,813 --> 00:25:17,523
and you can see how the hardness of that line
552
00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:19,129
is increased.
553
00:25:19,609 --> 00:25:22,869
Now, I can grab over where the little pin is
554
00:25:22,870 --> 00:25:25,380
in the middle to actually place this
555
00:25:26,269 --> 00:25:29,349
exactly in the image where I want it to.
556
00:25:30,207 --> 00:25:34,287
Now, I can also adjust the angle by just grabbing
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00:25:34,283 --> 00:25:37,103
the center line and you can see that my cursor
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00:25:37,104 --> 00:25:39,584
turns into two different arrows
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00:25:39,588 --> 00:25:42,198
and I can grab that and adjust
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00:25:43,717 --> 00:25:45,697
where that effect is applied.
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00:25:46,921 --> 00:25:48,391
The angle in which the effect is applied,
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00:25:48,391 --> 00:25:50,361
so I can bring that down a little bit.
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00:25:50,644 --> 00:25:52,304
Look at that, we've done a huge improvement
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00:25:52,304 --> 00:25:54,124
on the top part of the image.
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00:25:54,127 --> 00:25:56,277
Now, I wanna also apply an effect
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00:25:56,274 --> 00:25:57,574
to the bottom part of the image.
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00:25:57,575 --> 00:26:02,575
Simply enough, I can add another of these masks
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00:26:02,705 --> 00:26:04,575
to create another effect.
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00:26:04,572 --> 00:26:08,222
I'm gonna click from the bottom up
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00:26:08,217 --> 00:26:11,617
and I'm gonna create another line across here
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00:26:11,618 --> 00:26:15,968
in which I am going to apply an effect
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00:26:15,972 --> 00:26:18,212
to bring the exposure up on the bottom part of the image.
573
00:26:18,213 --> 00:26:20,353
I'm gonna bring this one up really close
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00:26:20,357 --> 00:26:22,897
to my other one and then I'm gonna take
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00:26:22,900 --> 00:26:25,220
the exposure on that one and bring it up.
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00:26:26,836 --> 00:26:29,096
Now, I have to play a little bit with the place
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00:26:29,099 --> 00:26:30,819
into these two lines.
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00:26:32,580 --> 00:26:34,090
to make sure they don't overlap
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00:26:34,089 --> 00:26:35,809
and to make the effect look more natural.
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00:26:35,813 --> 00:26:39,603
I'm gonna bring this top line up a little bit.
581
00:26:41,466 --> 00:26:42,846
I gotta move these out of the way
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00:26:42,848 --> 00:26:44,938
in order to grab the one at the bottom.
583
00:26:49,372 --> 00:26:51,032
Bring the bottom one up.
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00:26:52,507 --> 00:26:54,817
To make the line a little harder,
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00:26:55,293 --> 00:26:56,313
bring it up.
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00:27:00,030 --> 00:27:03,090
And it makes for a very easy adjustment of an image
587
00:27:03,094 --> 00:27:07,534
in which you have very extreme dynamic range
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00:27:07,530 --> 00:27:09,050
between one part of the image
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00:27:09,050 --> 00:27:11,960
and another where there's a very easy
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00:27:11,964 --> 00:27:14,494
demarcation line between them.
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00:27:15,087 --> 00:27:17,097
In a little bit, I'm gonna show you an example
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00:27:17,095 --> 00:27:19,535
in which this may not be the case.
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00:27:19,789 --> 00:27:22,249
But let's now look at the next tool,
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00:27:22,250 --> 00:27:24,450
which the ray of filter tool.
595
00:27:24,654 --> 00:27:27,234
The ray of filter tool works very similar
596
00:27:27,231 --> 00:27:30,551
to the gradient filter tool that we just looked at
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00:27:30,915 --> 00:27:33,735
except it allows you to apply the same effect
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00:27:33,732 --> 00:27:37,662
in a circle or oval shape as opposed to in a straight line.
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00:27:37,660 --> 00:27:40,330
I'm gonna click on the radio filter tool
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00:27:40,331 --> 00:27:44,141
and I'm gonna draw a circle around my son here.
601
00:27:46,798 --> 00:27:48,878
I'm gonna move that circle down.
602
00:27:52,579 --> 00:27:55,099
And then now, I can make all the adjustments
603
00:27:55,098 --> 00:27:57,128
that I want on the effect panel here.
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00:27:57,130 --> 00:27:58,650
I can adjust the exposure
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00:28:00,326 --> 00:28:01,896
on the outside if I wanted to create
606
00:28:01,892 --> 00:28:06,892
a nice marquee effect or vignetting effect.
607
00:28:07,407 --> 00:28:10,087
I can decrease the saturation of the area
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00:28:10,089 --> 00:28:11,639
around the image.
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00:28:12,202 --> 00:28:14,772
Or I can increase the clarity
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00:28:14,768 --> 00:28:16,528
or decrease the clarity of the area
611
00:28:16,532 --> 00:28:19,212
around the image to make it even softer looking.
612
00:28:19,435 --> 00:28:21,355
Again, the effects are very similar
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00:28:21,350 --> 00:28:24,080
to what we saw earlier in the radio tool
614
00:28:25,062 --> 00:28:27,062
sorry, in the gradient tool
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00:28:27,062 --> 00:28:29,162
but the radio tool allows you to do this effect
616
00:28:29,164 --> 00:28:33,234
in a circular or oval fashion but again,
617
00:28:33,238 --> 00:28:36,858
you can also adjust all these different items
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00:28:36,861 --> 00:28:39,101
to this particular area.
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00:28:39,264 --> 00:28:42,034
For example, you can adjust the color temperature even.
620
00:28:42,029 --> 00:28:44,449
You can adjust the exposure or the contrast.
621
00:28:44,445 --> 00:28:46,565
You can even increase the sharpness
622
00:28:46,568 --> 00:28:50,068
or decrease the sharpness or de-fringe the image
623
00:28:50,063 --> 00:28:52,823
or reduce noise or add noise to that part
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00:28:52,827 --> 00:28:54,627
of the image as well.
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00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:56,460
You have also a feather slider here.
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00:28:56,460 --> 00:28:59,770
You can vary what the effect looks like.
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00:28:59,768 --> 00:29:02,318
See if I do no feather at all,
628
00:29:02,321 --> 00:29:05,341
you have a very sharp edge along the oval.
629
00:29:05,339 --> 00:29:06,859
If I increase the feather,
630
00:29:06,860 --> 00:29:11,260
it makes that edge a lot more blended in
631
00:29:11,260 --> 00:29:14,590
and more undetectable.
632
00:29:15,718 --> 00:29:17,058
We have looked at making adjustments
633
00:29:17,054 --> 00:29:19,534
with both the gradient tool and the radio tool
634
00:29:19,538 --> 00:29:21,998
but what happens in the case where you don't have
635
00:29:21,999 --> 00:29:25,499
a nice straight line in which you can apply your effect?
636
00:29:25,494 --> 00:29:27,294
Let's look at this image here.
637
00:29:27,293 --> 00:29:28,713
We looked at this image earlier.
638
00:29:28,710 --> 00:29:31,740
This is a lighthouse in the Portland Maine.
639
00:29:31,739 --> 00:29:34,299
And in this particular case, I want to darken
640
00:29:34,294 --> 00:29:38,374
my sky but because the lighthouse and the building
641
00:29:38,369 --> 00:29:40,249
is sticking up onto the sky,
642
00:29:40,250 --> 00:29:44,820
I cannot easily use a gradient tool to
643
00:29:45,592 --> 00:29:48,052
decrease the exposure on the sky
644
00:29:48,050 --> 00:29:50,010
and bring out some of those clouds.
645
00:29:50,255 --> 00:29:52,455
This is where the brush adjustment tool
646
00:29:52,450 --> 00:29:55,750
comes into play and this is the rightmost tool up here
647
00:29:55,747 --> 00:29:59,557
on the little toolbox on your right hand panel
648
00:29:59,554 --> 00:30:01,804
in Lightroom in the develop module.
649
00:30:01,946 --> 00:30:03,896
What the brush tool allows you to do
650
00:30:03,897 --> 00:30:06,977
is actually paint or create a mask if you will
651
00:30:06,972 --> 00:30:10,192
of any arbitrary areas in your image
652
00:30:10,189 --> 00:30:12,649
where you want to apply an effect.
653
00:30:13,114 --> 00:30:14,974
Let's take a look at that.
654
00:30:15,390 --> 00:30:17,850
I'm gonna click on my adjustment brush tool
655
00:30:17,851 --> 00:30:21,261
and again, I have my brush tool here,
656
00:30:21,258 --> 00:30:24,878
which again, as we saw earlier, is two concentric circles
657
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,000
and the distance between the inner circle
658
00:30:27,004 --> 00:30:28,924
and the outer circle denoting the amount
659
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,460
of feathering that's taken place
660
00:30:31,462 --> 00:30:33,742
and what this tool allows me to do is actually paint
661
00:30:33,738 --> 00:30:36,438
the area that I want to apply my effect.
662
00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:40,079
Now, there are a number of ways to use this tool.
663
00:30:40,077 --> 00:30:43,497
One way that people use that is to make a
664
00:30:43,501 --> 00:30:46,621
very significant adjustment to say, for example,
665
00:30:46,624 --> 00:30:48,204
the exposure tool.
666
00:30:48,203 --> 00:30:50,783
Then when you start painting, you can see
667
00:30:50,780 --> 00:30:52,580
the effect that's being applied
668
00:30:54,026 --> 00:30:59,026
but I prefer the showing mask tool.
669
00:30:59,847 --> 00:31:02,087
Again, we can bring up our toolbar
670
00:31:02,088 --> 00:31:04,128
by hitting the T key on our keyboard
671
00:31:04,364 --> 00:31:05,574
and on the very bottom here,
672
00:31:05,571 --> 00:31:09,761
there's a checkbox that says show selected mask overlay.
673
00:31:10,481 --> 00:31:12,321
What this setting will allow us to do is
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00:31:12,316 --> 00:31:14,566
paint in a color that will allow us
675
00:31:14,568 --> 00:31:16,868
to set a placeholder for the area
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00:31:16,867 --> 00:31:19,367
that we're designating up in which we're gonna apply
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00:31:19,365 --> 00:31:20,225
our effect.
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00:31:20,643 --> 00:31:25,063
I'm gonna click on that and then start painting
679
00:31:25,205 --> 00:31:27,465
and what you can see that's happening here
680
00:31:27,466 --> 00:31:30,266
is that everything is turning red,
681
00:31:30,269 --> 00:31:32,009
the areas that I'm painting
682
00:31:32,011 --> 00:31:34,031
and as I'm painting here, this red is really
683
00:31:34,031 --> 00:31:36,851
a temporary placeholder that is designating
684
00:31:36,852 --> 00:31:41,852
which areas are going to receive whatever effect I apply
685
00:31:42,227 --> 00:31:45,237
by adjusting my sliders on the right.
686
00:31:45,547 --> 00:31:47,487
Now, I'm painting this area up here
687
00:31:47,486 --> 00:31:51,806
on the sky very rapidly because this area
688
00:31:52,510 --> 00:31:54,890
doesn't need a lot of detailed work.
689
00:31:54,892 --> 00:31:57,842
The detailed work that I'm going to be doing is going to be
690
00:31:57,841 --> 00:32:00,621
around the lighthouse and around the buildings
691
00:32:00,616 --> 00:32:04,396
and right across the horizon there.
692
00:32:04,397 --> 00:32:07,377
Now, that I painted this whole area up here.
693
00:32:07,873 --> 00:32:12,423
I'm gonna zoom in into this area here
694
00:32:12,427 --> 00:32:15,007
and I'm gonna show you how to create a mask
695
00:32:15,004 --> 00:32:18,604
that follows the contour of these buildings
696
00:32:18,603 --> 00:32:22,293
without spilling into the building itself
697
00:32:22,292 --> 00:32:24,252
or painting within the lines.
698
00:32:24,638 --> 00:32:27,998
There's a setting down here called auto mask
699
00:32:28,281 --> 00:32:31,691
and what auto mask allows the brush to do
700
00:32:31,686 --> 00:32:36,086
is to paint only in one side of the demarcation line
701
00:32:36,086 --> 00:32:37,806
that you may have in your image.
702
00:32:37,805 --> 00:32:41,845
For example, in this case, it would be the horizon line
703
00:32:41,845 --> 00:32:43,725
and the building and I'll show you
704
00:32:43,726 --> 00:32:44,706
what that looks like.
705
00:32:44,701 --> 00:32:48,191
Showing you probably will explain a little easier.
706
00:32:48,192 --> 00:32:50,272
I click on my auto mask tool
707
00:32:50,270 --> 00:32:52,730
and you can see that my brush has
708
00:32:52,731 --> 00:32:54,861
two concentric circles and in the middle,
709
00:32:54,864 --> 00:32:57,414
there is a crosshair.
710
00:32:57,999 --> 00:33:00,659
I can start painting on this area
711
00:33:00,657 --> 00:33:05,277
and as long as my crosshair does not cross
712
00:33:05,278 --> 00:33:10,278
into the bottom of the horizon or onto the building,
713
00:33:11,102 --> 00:33:15,212
the mask will be created only on one side
714
00:33:15,208 --> 00:33:17,228
of that demarcation line.
715
00:33:17,832 --> 00:33:21,732
This is a very easy way and effective way
716
00:33:21,733 --> 00:33:26,733
to paint along edges without letting the work
717
00:33:27,073 --> 00:33:29,913
that you're doing bleed onto a different area.
718
00:33:29,998 --> 00:33:32,898
Now, it's not absolutely perfect as you can see.
719
00:33:32,901 --> 00:33:34,651
We had a little bleeding going on here
720
00:33:34,654 --> 00:33:35,874
on the lighthouse.
721
00:33:36,596 --> 00:33:39,766
But it goes a long way in making the job
722
00:33:39,762 --> 00:33:43,622
of creating a custom mask a lot simpler.
723
00:33:43,922 --> 00:33:46,982
Now, one of the drawbacks of using the auto mask
724
00:33:46,986 --> 00:33:50,306
is in areas like this where you have a cloud.
725
00:33:50,423 --> 00:33:52,853
The auto mask may get confused with the cloud
726
00:33:52,848 --> 00:33:54,648
and may not paint the whole area.
727
00:33:54,649 --> 00:33:57,209
You end up with a Swiss cheese effect.
728
00:33:57,207 --> 00:33:58,957
When you're painting in areas like this.
729
00:33:58,953 --> 00:34:01,503
I would encourage you to turn the auto mask off.
730
00:34:02,260 --> 00:34:05,370
To paint those areas with the auto mask off
731
00:34:06,348 --> 00:34:08,868
and then switch back to the auto mask
732
00:34:08,867 --> 00:34:12,957
to paint along the edges to create that nice,
733
00:34:12,954 --> 00:34:16,914
perfect crisp mask.
734
00:34:18,249 --> 00:34:20,399
I'm not gonna bore you while I create this mask.
735
00:34:20,396 --> 00:34:22,136
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go ahead
736
00:34:22,137 --> 00:34:23,307
and create this detailed mask
737
00:34:23,310 --> 00:34:25,190
and I'll be right back when I'm done
738
00:34:25,191 --> 00:34:27,041
to show you how to apply the effects.
739
00:34:27,041 --> 00:34:29,061
Now, I've created this detailed mask in here
740
00:34:29,062 --> 00:34:31,662
but as you can see, the detailed mask
741
00:34:31,662 --> 00:34:32,682
is not perfect.
742
00:34:32,684 --> 00:34:35,884
The brush adjustment tool using the auto mask
743
00:34:35,888 --> 00:34:39,328
is not perfect as I had a little bleeding going on
744
00:34:39,324 --> 00:34:41,324
right here along the lighthouse
745
00:34:41,321 --> 00:34:43,361
because the contrast wasn't very great
746
00:34:43,365 --> 00:34:45,525
between the lighthouse and the sky.
747
00:34:45,525 --> 00:34:47,925
Luckily, I have a number of different brushes
748
00:34:47,926 --> 00:34:50,806
that I can use including an erase brush
749
00:34:50,807 --> 00:34:52,687
and I can click on the erase brush
750
00:34:52,686 --> 00:34:57,536
and erase out that line where my red
751
00:34:57,540 --> 00:35:00,940
or my mask that's being used to apply the effect
752
00:35:00,941 --> 00:35:03,241
as encroaching on the lighthouse itself
753
00:35:03,241 --> 00:35:05,941
and clean up those edges some.
754
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,570
Another quick way to actually switch
755
00:35:08,569 --> 00:35:10,869
between the A brush or B brush
756
00:35:10,866 --> 00:35:13,006
and those are just two preset brushes
757
00:35:13,004 --> 00:35:16,764
you can create by setting the size, the feather
758
00:35:16,765 --> 00:35:18,065
and the flow.
759
00:35:19,204 --> 00:35:23,264
But one way to switch between the painting brush
760
00:35:23,265 --> 00:35:25,945
and the erase brush is by holding down
761
00:35:25,948 --> 00:35:28,868
the option or alt key on your keyboard
762
00:35:28,863 --> 00:35:31,883
and that will switch your brush temporarily
763
00:35:31,885 --> 00:35:34,845
to the erase brush, so you can do some quick erasing
764
00:35:34,847 --> 00:35:36,497
and then by releasing it, it goes back
765
00:35:36,495 --> 00:35:39,075
to the painting brush for you to continue
766
00:35:39,072 --> 00:35:41,532
touching up your image.
767
00:35:42,125 --> 00:35:44,615
Now, that I've created this mask.
768
00:35:46,348 --> 00:35:50,498
I'm gonna uncheck this show selected mask overlay button
769
00:35:50,497 --> 00:35:52,917
at the bottom or checkbox at the bottom
770
00:35:52,993 --> 00:35:55,503
to make all that red mask go away,
771
00:35:55,501 --> 00:35:57,781
which is only allowing me to see which areas
772
00:35:57,776 --> 00:35:59,636
I'm gonna apply my effect to
773
00:35:59,633 --> 00:36:02,443
and now, I can adjust my effect over here.
774
00:36:02,918 --> 00:36:06,008
I have all these tools that I could use
775
00:36:06,006 --> 00:36:09,306
to adjust the image anywhere I like.
776
00:36:09,304 --> 00:36:11,004
I'm gonna start with the exposure side
777
00:36:10,999 --> 00:36:12,799
or bring the exposure down a little bit
778
00:36:12,799 --> 00:36:17,799
just on the sky and I can increase my contrast some.
779
00:36:18,034 --> 00:36:21,494
Maybe my clarity to define those clouds a little more
780
00:36:21,493 --> 00:36:23,933
and increase the saturation of that sky.
781
00:36:23,931 --> 00:36:26,791
I'm gonna bring down my exposure a little more
782
00:36:26,790 --> 00:36:29,850
so that allows me very easily to adjust that sky
783
00:36:29,853 --> 00:36:31,923
even though I have this lighthouse protruding
784
00:36:31,919 --> 00:36:32,849
right into it.
785
00:36:32,853 --> 00:36:34,903
Something I would not have been able to do
786
00:36:34,907 --> 00:36:38,197
with a traditional graduate or neutral density filter
787
00:36:38,193 --> 00:36:40,103
that I put on my camera.
788
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Now, let's take a look at the before and after
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using our backslash key.
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That's the before
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and that's the after.
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Pretty dramatic results.
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The last tool we're gonna look at
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in this lesson is the red eye reduction tool.
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The red eye reduction tool is on that tool panel
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on the upper right hand side of the develop module
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and it's very easy to use.
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What I wanna do is I wanna zoom in on this image
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with a red eye.
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I wanna click on my red eye tool
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and all we want to do is highlight the area
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of the entire eye.
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I'm gonna click on the center of the eye
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and drag out until I create a marquee
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that surrounds the entire eye
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and then let go of my mouse.
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And I'll do the same thing for the other eye.
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And that's it.
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Reducing red eye is as simple as that in Lightroom.
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Now, I have some homework for you.
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Select a few of your images
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where gradient filter could improve your images
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and practice using it.
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Practice makes perfect.
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In the next lesson, we're gonna talk about
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making your images the best that they can be.
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(lively music)
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