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Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

Lesson 17 from: Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide Bootcamp

Jared Platt

Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

Lesson 17 from: Adobe Lightroom: The Ultimate Guide Bootcamp

Jared Platt

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Lesson Info

17. Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Differences Between Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Classic

19:42
2

Hard Drives

08:06
3

File Organization

08:31
4

30,000 Foot View of Workflow

05:36
5

Importing into Lightroom

04:10
6

Building Previews

07:14
7

Collections and Publish Services

05:11
8

Keywords

06:27
9

Hardware for Lightroom

06:08
10

Searching for Images

07:51
11

Selecting Images

14:15
12

Organizing Images

04:02
13

Collecting Images for Use

14:56
14

Develop Module Overview

10:15
15

Profiles

11:34
16

Basic Adjustments

11:45
17

Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

05:31
18

Basics Panel: Saturation and Vibrance

02:40
19

Tone Curve

09:26
20

HSL

04:48
21

Split Tone

08:19
22

Lens Corrections

08:32
23

Details

09:34
24

Transform Tool

05:52
25

Effects Panel

10:00
26

Synchronizing for Faster Editing

07:40
27

Spot Tool

17:51
28

Skin Softening and Brush Work

07:00
29

Range Masking

13:28
30

Dodge and Burn

17:36
31

Working with Specific Colors

08:30
32

Edit Quickly with Gradient Filters

11:22
33

Making Presets

13:24
34

Preparing Image in Lightroom

09:51
35

Content Aware Fill

11:14
36

Skin Repair

02:44
37

Skin Smoothing

14:39
38

Expanding a Canvas

04:30
39

Liquify

10:22
40

Layers and Composite Images

12:54
41

Sharing via Web

17:52
42

Exporting Files

10:47
43

Sharing with Slideshows

08:00
44

Archiving Photos and Catalogs

19:54
45

Designing

13:35
46

Making Prints

11:27
47

Color Management and Profiles

13:00
48

Archiving Photos and Catalogs

11:31
49

Using Cloud Storage

04:09
50

Adding Images to your Portfolio

09:23
51

Collecting for Your Portfolio

18:03
52

Publishing Unique Websites Per Project

19:48
53

Sharing to Instagram

07:06
54

HDR

15:32
55

Panorama

06:41
56

HDR Panorama

09:54
57

Making Presets

15:39
58

Creating Profiles

18:09
59

Maps

07:08
60

Setup for Tethered Shooting

23:21
61

Sharing with the Client

05:42
62

Watched Folder Process

07:04
63

Second Monitor and iPad

06:09
64

Backup at the Camera

03:50
65

Gnar Box Disk Backup

06:45
66

iPhone and iPad Review

12:52
67

Importing to Lightroom on iPad

02:59
68

Cloud Backup

04:39
69

Adjust, Edit, and Organize

07:46
70

Using Lightroom Between Devices

11:27
71

Lightroom Desktop

05:27
72

Removing Images from the Cloud

10:49
73

Profiles

09:34
74

Light

04:34
75

Color

05:36
76

Effects

15:22
77

Details

08:33
78

Optics

03:49
79

Geometry

04:12
80

Crop

04:39
81

Adding and Using Presets and Profiles

13:41
82

Local Adjustments

15:40
83

Healing Tool

03:29
84

Synchronizing Edits

04:57
85

Editing in Photoshop

08:54
86

Finding Images

07:09
87

Sharing and Exporting Albums on the Web

09:18
88

Posting Images to Social Media

14:01
89

Overview of Lightroom Desktop

07:35
90

The Workflow Overview

10:08
91

Organizing Images

05:10
92

Albums and Shared Albums

18:21
93

Lightroom Desktop Workspace Overview

04:36
94

Importing and Selecting Images

09:23
95

HDR and Panoramics

22:44
96

Light

07:47
97

Profiles

07:23
98

Tone Curves

02:57
99

Color

08:35
100

Effects

17:01
101

Details

12:43
102

Optics

04:05
103

Geometry and Crop Tool

06:01
104

Sync Settings

02:40
105

Making and Adding Presets

03:48
106

Healing Brush

02:21
107

Brush Tool

03:14
108

Gradient Tool

04:16
109

Edit in Photoshop

02:53
110

Finding Images with Sensei

06:32
111

Sharing Albums on the Web

04:57
112

Print through Photoshop

02:09
113

Exporting Images to Files or Web Services

04:36
114

Connecting with Lightroom Classic and Mobile Devices

05:24
115

Archiving Images for Storage

09:55
116

Review of the Workflow

07:20

Lesson Info

Basics Panel: Texture, Clarity, and Dehaze

So that is all of your basic adjustments, and then you get into texture, clarity and d hazing. Now texture is all about the skin. Um, it usedto be that they just had clarity. And D. Hayes and Clarity was. Clarity is basically contrast in your mid tones. And so that's where, like wrinkles are. So if you have a lot of contrast in the mid tones than the shadow over, wrinkle is really deep in the highlight of the wrinkle is really bright, and so you get a pretty severe wrinkle, and if you go the opposite direction and limit the contrast, then the shadow gets brighter, the highlight gets darker and you no longer have a wrinkle. Texture is the same thing on a much more more minute lead level, and so it is actually really great for taking down skin texture. So if I grab on the texture and bring it down, you can see here, look at her forehead. You can see that there's a texture to her skin, and if I grab it and bring it down, it softens up that skin. Now you'll notice that it's all off, so sof...

tening up her hair just a little bit. So here's the thing. Texture is really awesome for skin, but it's also not great for hair. So we will use that in our retouching process later, as we are able to apply texture to our negative texture to skin specifically with our brush, which is right up here. So when we talk about retouching, that's when we would want to work on texture. It's not a good idea to just apply negative texture across an entire image. You really need to apply in a brush or integrating or in a radio filter something like that, because you need targeted specifically, Um, but that being said, if we look at texture as a landscape tool, it is absolutely fantastic, Um, for foliage and mountainsides and things like that. Go go nuts with the texture. Take the texture up all day long because it's beautiful in a landscape photo or ah, in a architectural photo. Something like that. It's fantastic tool. So, uh, clarity also is useful. A lot of the times I will add a little bit of clarity to a photograph because clarity will just kind of help toe bring out this like her eyebrows and kind of sharpen up her eyelashes and things like that, especially if you have an image that's just slightly soft, that the clarity tool will help to just kind of separate things out and get rid of some of that just soft focus. You look, um, so just take the clarity up. Don't go too far with it because it gets a little bit heavy handed and then later I'll come in and bring texture out of her skin and and we'll get a really nice soft skin but nice, crisp eyes and things like that. So clarity is really useful for that. Now. D. Hayes is a completely different tool. So when we go into D hazing, that's four. When you have glare on a window or when you have fog that you need to look through. So let me quickly go. Um, let me go to an image that oh, here. Ah, here we go. So I've got some fog here. Um, and maybe we'll just go to this one here so clarity would help us to see this pull a little bit. So if I grabbed the pole and see how it's darkening up the pole, little bit so that I can see it through that fog just a bit and texture is really great for, you know, like dirt and and leaves and stuff like that. So had take texture. You can see how the rocks and the dirt and stuff are really starting toe to sharpen up, so it's really beautiful in that way. But if I want to see through the fog, watch what we get when I go for D. Hes. So if I increase the D. Hayes, it's like I just removed the fog. I pushed the fog back like I took a big fan and blew it back so that I can see all of this information here. But notice what else it does like. It really darkens up the so if there's a natural vignette to my lens, I'm going to start seeing it because I'm It's really taking the contrast and really tweaking the contrast so that I can see those things so d hes can be really useful, but it can also be very, very damaging to a photograph is well, so just be careful what you do with it. It's fair. It's fairly useful in times where you want to see something a little bit better, but one place I like it is in adding fog. So if you have fog and you wish it were foggier, then just go negative De Hayes, and you'll get a lot of extra fog. It'll just amplify all fog, or it'll add fog where no fog existed. So it's a really great way to get rid of fog, but it's also a great way to add fog to a photograph.

Class Materials

Bonus Materials with Purchase

Adobe Lightroom Mobile Cloud
Adobe Lightroom Image Pipeline System
Workflow in Adobe Lightroom
BW Preset Collection
Color Art Pro Profiles
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Ratings and Reviews

Ira Richterman
 

I am truly a recreational novice in the photography world and this video is fantastic. Photography has become a very technical world both on the camera side as well as post production. Jared has great teaching skills and sure makes it look very simple. I would recommend this video for those starting out in Lightroom as this program can be overwhelming and has a daunting amount of information. I would like to know if there is a resource of location of contact to ask a question or two for clarifications as a viewer goes through the course. For example, when making a new collection and if you choose the option of making this new collection a target collection, what happens if you then make another new collection and select that new collection to be a target collection? If you click on B to add a photo to a target collection and you made two target collections then where does this virtual selection go, ie into which target collection? Thanks Ira irichterma@aol.com

Dan Clarke
 

This class was great. I've never used Lightroom before and now I feel comfortable in it. Massive amount of good info.

catherine Haggerty
 

Loved this class. As a beginner it really gives me working knowledge to use LR confidently. This class is older, so a few times I really had to stop and figure out how it worked in the newest version of LR... but all in all this class was amazing!

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