Thanks for making it this far through my workflow course I do hope you're enjoying it. If there's things that you're not understanding if I've not made myself clear enough, please let me know through the comments section. Then we are going to look at the develop module in Lightroom. To mostly look at tone and color balancing your images. In this section of the course we are going to be working with raw files only, and how we manipulate them in the develop module. RAW files when they come from the camera.

You'll notice if you shoot RAW that they are generally pretty dull and pretty flat, but they hold all of the information that the camera has gathered. So you need to then manipulate them and software like Lightroom to bring the best from your images. If you shoot in JPEG, then your camera is manipulating them or really before you even see them on your monitor. So Are the cameras Erin, some of the information that we're going to add manually in Lightroom, the camera is automatically. So oftentimes sharpening Kalla balance and tone balancing saturation, different things like that, that you can see on your camera that will affect the JPEG image that not affect the raw image. And so now we're going to look at the develop module and see how we can utilize the controls that Lightroom gives us to make your raw images look a lot more appealing than they do straight out of the camera.

Let's start by selecting an image and hitting the D key to bring it to the develop module. And this module, I like to have both my side panels open this one with the presets as there's a lot of different presets and these can help you especially When you're starting out, or like this, I have developed some of my own for workflow that I use frequently but we'll look at that a little bit later. And on the side, you've got all of your tongue controls and all of the all of the different components in the develop module for manipulating the way that your image looks. So quite often our status with the blacks and the contrast looking like there's not a little bit underexposed, there's nothing on the right hand side of the histogram. So just up the exposure a little bit looks a little bit brighter, but now the highlights are blown out or not blown out, but there's still a bit hot so we'll grab the highlights and scroll down.

To control the sliders I prefer to use my mouse and click on the slider I want to move and use the scroll wheel. To move the slider left or right, I find this as a more accurate way than just clicking and dragging on the slider. But like many aspects of Lightroom there's different ways of achieving the same results. It's just a matter of experimenting and finding the way that you prefer. So looking at the color temperature, the overall color temperature, the image looks quite nice. It's indoors, but the skylights on the roof that filter the light quite nicely.

I usually turn the clarity up a little bit the source a little bit like Chapman, but not as harsh. And I'm always preaching to what that I never take it above 15 or 20. And depending on the image, if I'm working on an image I want to have a little bit softer. I'll slide it down towards the leaf again, only about 15 or 20. Now if we go over to the left hand side Info panel and click on the history To the start in the interviewer up to now you can see there's quite a difference, the image really pops, I just kind of tweak the exposure a little bit, have a look at it again. And I think it's looking quite nice certainly a lot better than it did in its raw format when I was straight out of the camera.

So it's really important to manipulate your raw images in Lightroom to draw out the information that's in the image file. So coming back out of there and starting to look at one of these ones of the trolley, this will be quite different because it's quite a high contrast image. Every sliders just sit in the middle again and zeroed out, just take blacks down, take the contrast up, and that sounds a lot pretty good already. Little bit hot on the highlights. So let's drag those and the whites down just to bring up a touch of the detail on there. I don't want to make it too flat too gray because then we lose some of the impact of the contrast and the look of what's happening down here with the clarity when I move there, it's really quite a noticeable difference.

Possibly a little bit soft looking on the video. Sorry about that. It's difficult to get the real high quality full quality that I see on my high resolution monitor to translate to the video. So just having a look at the slider of the color temperature between the blue and the yellow. Maybe a little bit blower's certainly not yellow, that doesn't really work. But just a little bit cooler than it was, again to heighten that contrast I think looks quite nice.

So again, what's between the green and the magenta, that's not looking great, maybe a touch of magenta and that will help the impact of a beer strong image. And I think we'll leave it at that. Let's see the slide he was the tomatoes and see what we can do with here. Again, my favorite type of black Stan type contrast up a little bit. Just being really carefully, maybe bump the exposure a little bit and lift the shadows, especially looking at the sign of a face for you don't want that to go too dark. And then Drop the blacks again you'll notice that a slide that black down it's not really affecting the shadow in a face now because we've lifted the black out of there.

That's very bright area here. I can take a highlight slider and the white slider and you can see that it's bringing some detail on there, but not a whole lot. Having a look at the clarity, just a little bit there. And it's looking pretty nice. Coming down here. Let's have a look at our yellow flowers with the bee take the blacks down again.

The shadows had some clarity, just pop the exposure out there in the contrast, that's starting to look okay. Have a look at the color temperature. That's gonna want to change it too much. It looks pretty good. And now let's have a look here is hue, saturation and luminance options. So the saturation of the yellow guys up and the luminance goes down, not that match.

Now let's take it out. So we've got some really strong color like this and you want to emphasize it. Between the yellow and the green. We can saturate it we can play with aluminum a little bit and See if we can really enhance this lovely color that this image has. And you can turn this little switch on and off on each of these panels to see the differences that your changes have made and if you like them or not looking at all the different options there, you've got the shoe saturation, and luminance, the color and the black and white. Now let's have a look at these beans.

I'd like green to be a lot more high impact than they are look at Dahlia, say a little bit overexposed. So let's just do a regular here but include a little tweak to the exposure and just bring the exposure down, bring the clarity out, bring the blacks down. And then let's slide down here and see what we can do to try and pop a bit more color. So bringing the green luminance down and the green saturation app have some impact. We're just playing around with the yellow because it's quite a yellow, kind of a green. And then let's also look at the shoe slider on the grain and let's just make quite a nice little bit of a difference here.

So you can see again on this image between what we started with and what we've got there is quite a significant difference. Now this image here, I have pulled them from another catalog because I didn't shoot anything at a high enough is our shot a few images or $1,000 out of the market, but roar images on the da 100 don't actually show up much digital noise at all. So it's difficult to demonstrate the noise reduction on an image that doesn't have much noise. So here I've pulled one on that I've shot up 6400 ISO. You can see I've tweaked that already have developed at some already. I'll just scroll down and show you the noise reduction sliders and how they work because I find a lot of people don't understand the best way to utilize the noise reduction on Lightroom.

So you can see there's a lot of digital noise in this image. But as we come down here, looking at the luminance and the color swatch, As the two that you want to work in conjunction with each other, so bring them up to about the same value. And you can see what's happening with the noise, the can go on, turn it off and on again. And it's made quite a dramatic difference. You will notice a little bit of softening of the image with noise reduction, but the camera technology these days, and the software that can manipulate the noise in an image like this is absolutely fantastic. And certainly your images will need some loving attention to bring the best out of them.

And Lightroom is a fantastic tool for doneness. Everybody uses it slightly differently. Some people use it exclusively. I use it in conjunction with Photoshop. This course was just looking at some of the ways that I personally use it. to tweak my images, there's certainly a myriad of otherwise but hopefully this will be giving you a good amount of base information to get you started on how you can really enhance your images and make them look a lot more attractive.