All language subtitles for 79 - Radial Filter

In this lecture we'll be exploring
light rooms graduated filter tool

for this exercise.

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Before we begin, let's discuss
the goal of this exercise.

Here we have a landscape shot
that includes a lake and mountains

in the lower half and a skyline
in the upper half of the shot.

See, for example,
we wanted to do any of the following

Decrease the exposure of this sky

while increasing it
for the lake in mountain areas.

Change the color of the sky or the lake.

Decrease the clarity of the lake
for a slow shutter effect.

We can accomplish these objectives
in many more using light rooms.

Graduated Filter.

Let's start with the first objective,
which is decreasing the exposure

value of the sky.

First, select the

graduated filter tool over here.

Next,
we need to instruct Lightroom on exactly

which area
we want to target, in this case, the sky.

But we need to be careful.

We want to make sure that the graduated
filter applies our exposure adjustment

only to the sky
and not to the lake or mountains.

So the first thing I'm going to do
is I'm going to start off

by drawing the graduated filter
and it looks like this

just three horizontal lines.

Now we can move the entire

filter up and down

just so you know

which way to position
the graduated filter,

go ahead and increase your exposure
to something dramatic.

Just so we know exactly what areas
we're targeting,

we know we want to apply
an effect to the sky,

and we don't want to apply
any effect to the mountains.

So we
can see here that the graduated filter

is impacting the right areas.

We'll go ahead and expand

this top line here.

So what this does is it
creates a gradient effect

based on the adjustment here
that you that you apply.

So since our goal was to decrease
the exposure value of the sky,

I'm actually going to go the opposite way
now that I have

the right area targeted.

So you can see that

it's a very smooth transition
from the new exposure value

to the bottom half of the image,
which we didn't want to effect

know.

I'm going to take a look at the before
and after.

I'm going to toggle the on and off switch
so we can preview what it was before.

And this is after.

Now, just keep in mind that this

this entire graduated filter,
these horizontal lines here,

they can be rotated.

They can be
if you put it completely upside down,

you're going to target the bottom
half of the photo instead of the top half.

And so I'm going to flip it back around

now, depending on how low you want to go,
if you don't want the mountains affected

at all, you're going to have to
bring this bottom line up.

And that way the exposure correction

is more intense at the top

and it fades out pretty quickly
rather than a very graduated fade out

effect, which trails
a little bit into the mountains.

But I'm okay with that,
so I'm going to leave it as is now.

See, for example, not only did we want
to decrease the exposure value of the sky,

but we also wanted to increase
the saturation of the blue tones.

So what we can do here

is the saturation slider.

Move that over to the right

and you'll get a much more saturated
blue tone to the sky.

And you can see that
the effect is quite natural.

Another important point

to mention here is that we can have
multiple graduated filters.

So see, for example, here
we've made adjustments to the sky,

but we also want to make adjustments
to the water here

so you can draw another graduated filter.

You know,

you'll see that the horizontal lines
are now attached to this filter,

but this one is still available
for adjustment.

If you if you wanted to switch to it,
you can go ahead and just click it.

You click this point here.

Now we're working with
the bottom graduated filter.

In this case,

I will
increase the exposure value for the leak,

make it a little bit brighter.

So there's a deep contrast between the sky

and the lake below it.

And we'll also go ahead
and decrease the clarity.

And what that does is it creates

more of a slow shutter speed effect
If you're into photography,

if you take a a shot on a tripod
with a very slow shutter,

you get a softer kind of blur effect.

So this is increasing clarity.

This is decreasing it.

Okay.

Now, similar to the other tools,
we've worked with these pins over here,

this top one in the bottom one,
if you don't want to see them

in the show Edit Pins menu,
you can adjust it.

So if you don't want to see any of them
ever just place a checkmark next to never.

But it's

typically a good idea to leave it on auto.

And that way you can see
the one that you're currently working on.

Now, if you want to duplicate or delete
a gradient, right click on the pin

and there's your options to duplicate
or delete.

I'll go ahead and remove the bottom one
and you can see that

the top one is still there
for us to work on.

If you hover your mouse over the pin,

you can see a faint red mask,
and this mask tells us

exactly what areas of this photo

the graduated filter has been applied to.

So you can see exactly where your trend
transition ends and begins.

Okay.

And that's how you work
with the graduated filter tool.

If you want to apply the settings.

As with the other tools we've worked with,
make sure you press done

and that will

apply the adjustment you just made.

So we'll see you in the next lecture.