The LIGHTROOM skill EVERY photographer SHOULD KNOW
The is one skill in Lightroom that has been used by photographers for years and it is easy to learn.
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The transformation of the first image is quite remarkable. Some more videos on creative vision would be very helpful.
The way you see light is immaculate! Cheers Nigel
Super helpful Nigel, as always. Thanks for sharing these techniques!
The brush its so true dont use it that much never seemed to enough control with it., bit like the linera gradient never really gonfident with that one. Very impressive demonstration defintely adding it to my editing more often. As always MAny thnaks Nigel.
It IS possible to replicate intersect on the iPad very easily. Eg. Select sky, subtract linier gradient at the bottom of the sky then click reverse button. This can be done with all of the tools
I do this quite a lot. With the Apple pen it’s a great way to get really fine control of brush masks if you don’t have a desktop setup with a tablet and stylus.
@@MalKennedy Yes me too. Select / subtract / select brush, radial, linear etc / invert
I love how you edit your work to create your images. I see editing as a means to bring out the best in each image. Art is the final goal for me, whether one begins with a camera, or a paint brush. Thank you, again!
Thank you very much!
informative 20mins on Lightroom.
Every time I think I know what I am doing with that brush tool, you show me some things that I hadn't considered. Thanks for the great videos.
Fantastic Really learnt a lot this morning.
Great techniques and excellent demo! Thanks!
Great tips thanks
Super helpful. Thanks.
Great video. Thanks so much.
The result is awesome! thank you for sharing
Thank you for all the tips! Go for the 24mm PC-E: you won’t regret it! Having control over perspective and focal plane is so nice it might end up spoiling you :)
Great video Nigel, with lots of fab tips; will certainly return to this regularly.
Excellent tutorial Nigel, thanks 👍
Thanks for very useful video - another "keeper"!
That is just fantastic!! Thank you so much, Nigel.
Very nice video Nigel. Some good techniques and tips!
Bunch of new information for me, even after watching tons of lightroom and related tutorials. Thanks for that and great content!
Thank you for your video! I love your skill set and knowledge for Lightroom! 👍
Looking forward to your tilt shift video - I have had that very lens for around ten years and find it really useful for panos and getting huge depth of field without needing to focus stack..
Stunning transformation on the first image! I'm going to be taking notes....Thanks!
Your video are alway brilliant. I have learnt so much from you. Thanks.
What an excellent vlog! One of the best I have seen on LR. Just recently I've watched loads because I am upping my game with LR!
Great video, Nigel. I watched this earlier today and have been fiddling with the brush tool in my images ever since. What a huge difference it has made. Thank you for explaining this in a way I could finally understand.
Thanks again for some great tips! I use CC saw I'll try using them in RAW. Cheers
Great ideas/tips as always. I especially liked the first one, using a soft brush to subtract the effect of the gradient (including halos) on the sky near the hills.
I have enjoyed photography for the last 15 years or so, but knew so little about the intricacies of the craft including how important editing an image can be. Finally made an equipment upgrade last year and have started using lightroom, and the difference is night and day. This video really helped clarify some aspects of lightroom that I didn't understand at all, so thank you for creating it!
Bit of a game changer for me there, Nigel! I had totally been using the brush tool wrong, so wasn't enamoured by it. Your clear explanation will undoubtedly take my pics to the next level. Thanks!
Thank you Nigel. Perfect instructional content, for Lightroom and showing the different way to use the brilliant tools. My aim, after watching this video, is to purchase an ipad plus touch-pen, and try it out for myself. You make it look so good and great fun with fantastic results. As always.
Thanks Nigel... I "add" and "subtract" using other tools but learned today how to "Intersect" with the brush, so helpful.
Excellent! TX very. Love your emphasis on creative but natural looking editing and 'how to' .
Great video! I always compare the photos I take to those taken by yourself, Mads, and James, and mine never look anywhere near as good. This video has massively helped give me hope that by following these tips, I can make my good photos better!
Such a great video - have been using the brush tool recently but always wondered how to use some of the more advanced features that you have covered here - Many Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
I use an “artists” glove when working with the iPad and Pencil. You might find it helpful.
Thank you so much for this very interesting video, showing how to create wonderful effects with tools we all are familiar with. I’d love to see more of iPad workflows because I feel many people (myself included) are switching to it. Honestly, I’ve been enjoying working on the Lightroom for iPad so much that I have not touched my Mac and Lightroom CC in months :)
With the new version of LR, it is beginning to give me everything I need. Far fewer trips to PS to make changes. The masking is its most powerful feature now. Thanks Nigel.
Great video, thank you. Explained really clearly and simply! It’s been brilliant watching the Instagram stories this week, looking forward to the video!
It was good fun this week with Mads and James... Basically calming Mads down and telling James tripods aren't everything...
Great video Nigel. I love the creative vision you have for each image. I was wondering, do you "creatively see" the image in the field the way you want it to appear in LR? Also, I love how you "tell yourself" what you want to do, as you express that creative vision in these video. I think its a creative process that unfolds as you express your vision, even when your not videoing. Again, well done Nigel. Thanks for the lesson. :o)
Good Morning Nigel, just getting ready to go to work. The brush tool in Lightroom has become my favourite for doing all those subtle changes. It's a very satisfying feeling to recall that image from the moment you captured it, and that subtle touch with the brush I've found really helps. The real beauty is that if it doesn't feel right, I can delete the mask and try again. Great little tool. Some of the smallest changes can be very powerful.
Just back to lightroom and photoshop so a good refresher. Just tested it on my Samsung S4 tablet and works just like the ipad so quite pleased as we are going away soon.
Really nice work Nigel, these image examples are gorgeous!
Thanks mate.
Nice indeed, thanks ! I will go back to some of my photos with this in mind, I guess I will be able to "undiscard" some of them ;)
You can intersection on the iPad: Mask, then Subtract, then Invert
Great video! Definitely saved this in my playlist
Glad you liked it!
What?!? I just picked up three new things I can use. I had no idea about the shift-click to get the brush to do a line. As I have a slight tremor in my hand that is extremely useful. Much easier than trying to brush the entire length of a tree trunk. Thank you so much. Great content.
That was so simple! I was watching you edit and when you were done, I just said - DAMN. And rolled my eyes. LOL I mean, it pays to know not only how to use the software but what features are there that can be used to the max. This video just resolved a few issues I was having in figuring out how to edit some photos from an air show here in California. So glad I'm subscribed to your channel!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
Great tutorial on the brush tool. BTW, I wish my "local woodland" looked like yours. 😁
Between the first brush click and the second shift+click, you can change the size, density, etc. of the brush to get a more appropriate end brush.
Very good tip Robert.
May have to watch this a few times. 😵 👍🥂
I really didn't like the changes to the new brush tool. You've really demonstrated why I should get on board. Excellent tutorial.
Holy shit, I've been using Lightroom for ten years and I'm utilizing maybe 1 % of its potential 😁
Thanks Nigel, nice mix of editing tips and tools. I found it a little hard to follow your brush without either a “highlighted circle” around it or a mask. One or the other would help. Also, how do you save some of your tools like glow. Thanks again for all you do! Geoff
Great informative video. Will need to watch a few times as I still find all the intersects very confusing.
Alright, I am genuinely impressed. Although I'm against painting shadows and features into my images, your final image looks very nice and still somewhat believable/realistic.
Hi Nigel, great video again! I am wondering if you ever use Lightroom CC and Classic in parallel. I am finding that, especially being abroad, I heavily rely on CC to store my photos securely. But that cuts me out of Classic. Or can I use them in parallel?
Thank you for all the content you do! I have a question do you perform all those edits in Lightroom with your monitor dimmed to D65?
That tip at 14:00 about saving/using presets for masks is brilliant! I really wish I could use it, but I don't have that "custom" button under effects, so I guess it's only available for Lightroom Classic. Which sucks, cause Adobe won't let me get Classic without PS, so I have to stick with normal Lightroom as it's half the monthly cost of CC+PS...
Hi Nigel, I was editing on my iPad in the Lakes on holiday a few weeks ago and was wondering where Intersect is on the iPad app. As you say it's not there but you can always subtract and then invert which has the same effect.
Very nice video. We saw a sort-of boring flat image come to life and it seemed Ansel Adams' spirit was present here.
In this tutorial you demo using a Mac on one image and an iPod on a different image. What is the LR work flow you use to do a quick edit on an iPad while on location and then finish off on a Mac when you are back home?
And the good news for those of us who don't use Lightroom, is that you can do the same sort of thing in Capture One
Excellent tips as always thank you Nigel. 😊. Unfortunately, MPB is not quite ‘worldwide’ . I live in Australia and wish this company operated here. 😢. I know many photographers who would welcome MPB! Cheryl
Great tutorial as always very interesting See new edit something I need to spend more time doing I have been using MPB for years trading old equipment and upgrading to better as you say they are an excellent site and very professional and pick up my parcel and give me a price within a day or two and if I’m not happy they will return it thanks for the great much appreciated. 🎉
Can you add a signature on the iPad photoshop?
Hello Nigel. As always, awesome content. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I would like to ask you a question, do you think a tablet like the iPad Pro could be your main editing machine? Or would you prefer a 14’ screen, like an MacBook Pro? Thank you so much.
I like a computer as just bigger and more accurate colour. But iPad is fairly impressive
Thanks!
Bought the MBP M1 with 14’’ screen. Great machine. Thank you for your help. ☺️
Hi Nigel - great video Do you think using something like the Wacom tablet with pen is good for this type of editing?
I have a tablet that I use for editing sometimes. I find that it is easier for some things than the mouse
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Hi Nigel, do you think you could edit on just the iPad alone?
Great video. I’d never knew about the intersect. What pen are you using on the iPad?
the Apple Pencil
@@NigelDanson Thats what I was wondering. Do you like it. I have a small stylus I bought that works fairly good. I was wondering if the Apple Pencil would be worth the upgrade.
The Last Photo you edit in Ipad, which Lens did you use Sir📷
Could you tell me the advantage (except of price) of using an iPad/MacBook combo instead of a computer that was puposely built for picture editing/design? I'm thinking about something like an Acer ConceptD Ezel which has a pen.
i loved to dudge and burn in a real lightroom, i can miss it, that sure was hard
Very nice and instructive video, Nigel. Thank you! Maybe it's just me, though, but the focus on this video seemed a bit soft to me.
Do you normally edit differently depending on its going on Instagram or for printing ?
Slightly
Why don't you use a linear profile? Do you plan to make a video about linear profiles?
It surprises me how many KZheadrs talk about ’darken down’. Since darkening always takes the luminosity down, why the double verb? Fortunately most don’t talk about ‘lighten up’!
I prefer photoshop its just the tool I started with when I started using Creative cloud and I've been doing this in photoshop for ages
Way may Lightroom looking different?
The color on my monitor is horrible so I have to do all my Lightroom and on my tablet. Other than the lack of tools I prefer it.
I can't afford Lightroom - what do I do? x
As a relative newbie to Lightroom this was impossible to follow.
What skill?
The brush tool
@@emanuelbief7088 thanks, I was just being a smartass because the title and description say nothing. For a 20min video, I just wasn't going to watch it. I know how to use the brush anyway. I'm tired of all these photography channels with undescriptive clickbait titles.
Hi Nigel. I have been admiring your work for some time now, and have also bought one of your books. Now I actually find this video a bit disappointing, seeing that you change the the impression of the factual lighting situation by creating a shadow area in the foreground. This makes me wonder how to approach your photos from now on. What did you actually see and photograph? How did you make use of the situation, the light? What have you added in Lightroom? I must admit I sometimes do some local adjustments myself, but only to overcome the shortcomings of the camera in rendering the actual situation the way I remember it. Otherwise I do only global adjustments. However, I don't have to make a living from my photography. Perhaps that is why I can afford to be a purist?
I think photography is an art and ultimately I recreate what I saw. Dodging and burning has been part of photography for over 100 years now.
@@NigelDanson Fair point. Still, I think it should make a difference what kind of photographers we make people think we are. Are we nature and landscape photographers or are we photographers creating art based on photos of such? I always find it helpful when photographers state their philosophy, or ethos if you like, and/or divide their photos into categories on their websites according to purposes and techniques. That is always helpful to other photographers, I believe.
I like to compare photo editing to women wearing makeup, it seems to enhance the natural beauty already present.
@@jerrydean648 It is not the editing itself I find to be a problem, but covert adjustments to reality. Please edit away, but let me know. As I say to my media students: You are free to manipulate your photos, but not your audience. Usually the context tell us what to expect from the photographer and the photos; news, advertising and so on. Unfortunately a landscape photographer's website does not constitute such a given context. Hence I challenge nature and landscape photographers to be transparent as to how they work.
@@egilsb5965 you don’t get more transparent than making a video showing the process. I try not to confuse photojournalism with photography as an art form. I never let really get in the way of art.
Why dont you use Photoshop, it is easyer, you have more control and it is more precise.
Not very easy to follow for a newish user of Lightroom
LOL, proprietary software. I'll stick with the vastly superior RawTherapee instead.
In what way is RawTherapee vastly superior to Lightroom? Genuinely curious.