Lightroom Quicktip, save your editing as a preset

In Lightroom you can easily save your editing as a preset. For example you can do some split toning and save it as a preset and use it for another picture.

Open the image in Lightroom

Do the editing

Now click on the + on the left site in the preset panel.

Choose with changes you want to save and give the preset a name.

Easy and simple!

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How to go black and white in Lightroom

Learn how to go black and white in Lightroom.

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Create a sepia effect in Lightroom cc using Split Toning

Create a sepia effect in Lightroom cc using Split Toning is very easy. Just follow the steps in this short Youtube movie.

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How to be straight in Lightroom

It has just become even easier to straighten an image in Lightroom! 

Lightrooms latest update (6.6) has a new section in the Develop module called Transform. What's new here is the guided option.  

With this option you can straighten horizontal and vertical lines in your image. To show you how it works, I've used one of my old pictures.

Before I go to the Transform section, I checked Lens correction:

Adobe recommends to do this before you use the transformation options. After the lens correction, I opened Transformation and picked Guided.

Just draw lines on those parts of the image that you want to have straightened (horizontally and vertically). Click done to apply it to your image. Now the lines are corrected. 

Bear in mind that the result can be that you lose some information from the edges of the picture. This can be easily fixed though by cropping your image.

I find this feature pretty helpful! Especially in a picture like this with many buildings. 

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How to straighten an image in #lightroom

One of the most important things to do is to straighten your horizon when editing your pictures in Lightroom.  And it's real easy to do, let me show you. 

I start with this image:

 

As you can see the horizon is not entirely the way it should be. 

To solve this, I use the crop tool (R) in Lightroom (in the develop module).

There's a few options to straighten the horizon. The first one is to click on the Auto button in the middle of this section.

  

Click Done and voila, the horizon is straightened.

The second option is to do it yourself by using the straighten tool. 

 Click on the icon and then draw a line over the horizon.

It's easy enough to correct it in post processing. But why not make it even easier and pay attention when shooting. After all, when you have to straighten it in Lightroom you will end up losing some parts of your picture.

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How to install presets in Lightroom

This post is about how to install presets in Lightroom. Presets can be a great help when you edit a picture in Lightroom. It all starts with knowing how to install new presets. 

First of all, you have to download the free presets and unzip them. Then copy the folder with the presets. Now you can add them to Lightroom. Here's how to go about it:

1. go to Lightroom > Preferences
2. Then click on Show Lightroom preset folder in the Presets tab.
   
3. Then go to Lightroom > Develop Presets, and paste the folder with the presets.
   In this case we added some presets from Serge Ramelli into Lightroom
   
   
   
4. Now restart Lightroom and voila! The presets are ready to use.
   

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How to compare pictures in Lightroom

In Lightroom you can compare two images. This can be very helpful for example if you want to pick a similar image but want to know which picture has a better composition or is sharper. So how does this work? 

Start the library module, select an image and then press C on your keyboard.

Lightroom then shows the selected image (Select) and the right image next to it in the filmstrip (Candidate). With your arrow keys you can 'browse' through your filmstrip to select another picture.

You can change the selected image by clicking on another picture in the filmstrip

Instead of using the arrow keys of your keyboard you can use the arrows direct under the candidate to select another candidate.  

With the zoom option you can zoom in on both pictures. This can be very helpful to see if one picture is for example sharper then the other picture.

Under the Candidate are 2 more buttons, one to swap the Selected and the Candidate and one to make the Candidate the Select.

The compare view in combination with rating can be very useful to select the image you want to develop. To quit the Compare View just click on C of your keyboard.

I always use this when doing my post processing, it's part of the workflow. 

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Creating a HDR with Camera Raw

There are so many ways to create beautiful HDR images. You can use the software of Macphun, Photomatix, Lighroom or Photoshop. But did you know that you can also use Camera Raw?

I started out with dragging my raw files into Photoshop. Now the Camera raw filter opens: 

You can see the filmstrip. Click on Select All:

This is where you can do some small adjustments, for example changing the white balance before you merge the images to a HDR.

Now here's where the magic starts: click on Merge to HDR

Click on Merge

Choose a file name and then Save

The HDR image is now available in the filmstrip:

This is the point where you can edit it even more with the Camera raw sliders. After that you can even open it in Photoshop for more adjustments.

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How to remove spots using in Lightroom

Sometimes when I edit a picture, I discover little or bigger spots on an image that don't belong there, like sensor dust. Luckily it's easy to remove these spots in Lightroom using using the Spot removal (Q).

When clicking on the Spot Removal tool you'll get 2 possibilities:- Clone- Heal

When you choose Clone, Lightroom will clone exactly to the pixel from a specific area. But when you choose Heal, Lightroom will attempt to make subtle changes to the way Spot is filled

With the size you can make your brush smaller of bigger, but it works faster by scrolling your mouse and make your brush bigger or smaller.

Feather is the way to make harder or softer edges to your brush strokes. Most of the time when you're doing spot removal, you'll use a feather of 100. This way you won't see the edges of your brush. Opacity is the strength of your brush. So when you use 50% opactiy your spot will disappear for 50%.

Let me show you how it works with this picture in Lightroom: 

Make your brush a little bit bigger then the spot and paint over it:

Lightroom tries to find an area to sample. You can drag it around to find a better area.  Then go to the next spot and repeat the same process. When all the spots are removed click on Ok and your image is clean.

When the spot removal tool is active you'll see 2 more options in the toolbar (T)- Tool Overlay- Visualize spots

With the Tool overlay you can choose if you want to see where you did your spot removal. With visualize spots the screen appears in black and white and you'll see the spots right away. 

 

So this is a really handy too to remove the spots: 

Most of the time I think Lightroom does a pretty good job with the spot removal. However, if you're not satisfied with the result, you can always resort to Photshop to fix the spots there. 

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How to create a Contact sheet in Lightroom

Creating a contact sheet in Lightroom is very easy and helpfull to present your pictures for a client.

But what exactly is a contact sheet? It is an arrangement of multiple, small, same size images on a single page. You might also give some information about the images such as the image filename placed under the image. The purpose is to provide reference to a larger number of images. You may print them to keep or give to a client as a catalog of the images from a shoot, for example. 

Here's how to make such a contact sheet in Lightroom:

Go to Print Module in Lightroom. You can find the contact sheets in the Lightroom templates

You can choose which pictures you want to have on your contact sheet.

If you choose Selected Photos, don't forget that you must actually select the images in your filmstrip.

You can easily change your  page setup.

Now that have selected the images for your contact sheet, you can modify the layout. 

On the right panel you'll find a lot of different options:

1. Image settings
All settings speaks for themselves. Just try things out to see what works best for your contact sheet.

2. Layout
Here you can choose how many pictures you'd like to have contact sheet (rows and columns) and how much space you want between them. This is also where you choose the margins of your page.

3. Guides
Guides help you to design your contact sheet but will not be printed.

4. Pages
And there's some extra options: 

a. Background
You can change your background colour, but I have found that white works best most of the times. 

b. Identity plate  
This can be used to add your identity. I choose to use our logo.

c. Watermark
If you want to, you can add a watermark on all pictures in the contact sheet

d. Page options
Here you can put some extra information on your contact sheet, like for example page number.

e. Photo info 

This is where you can add information (photo caption) to all the pictures in your contact sheet, like File name etc. 

5. Print Job
This is where you can change your print settings.

Once you have selected the images and the layout, you can click on the print button and Lightroom will print the Contact Sheet. I love the option to print it as a .pdf file. That way it's really easy to mail it to a client. 

If you want to save all the settings, so that you can use it for another contact sheet, just click on the + in the left panel. Give your template a name and location and save it.

That's all there is to it! Easy right? 

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