- [Instructor] The majority of image editing
is done at the Basic panel
which is at the top of the right panel group over here.
This is where you make the big overall edits.
Every RAW photo needs some Basic panel edits
and we have a RAW photo here to work on.
The edits we do in the Basic panel
are similar to the types of edits
that are made by your digital camera,
when you capture JPEGs instead of RAW files.
Before we get started,
it's important to understand that all Lightroom edits
are a nondestructive set of instructions
that are saved in the catalog.
The image itself out on the hard drive remains untouched.
All right, let's edit this image with the Basic panel.
First, at the top we have the White Balance,
this WB stands for White Balance.
This is how warm or cool the image is.
If you're image has something in it
that you know that is supposed to be a neutral gray,
you can use this eyedropper
which is the White Balance picker or selector
to select set the White Balance.
This image doesn't really have anything
that's supposed to be gray but let's try it
so I can show you how it works.
So I'll click on that to pick up the eyedropper,
and then I'll go out into the image
and find something that I think should be a neutral gray.
So let's say maybe this balcony up here
should be a neutral gray.
So when I click on it,
with the eyedropper it sets that to neutral
and it adjusts all the other colors in the image.
There's also some White Balance Profiles over here
where it says custom, it changed the custom
because when we use a White Balance Picker
it adjusted the temp in tint.
If we click on this, we can see some presets
and I'll try the Cloudy preset
because this was shot on a cloudy evening
and not cooled it back from where it was before.
What I usually end up doing is just manually adjusting
the temp in the tint until I get something I like.
And I want this image to be a little warmer
because it was shot in the evening
when the sun was going down.
So I'm going to take the Temp Slider
to the right to make it a little bit more yellow.
That's pretty good there
and then we'll take the tint up just a tiny bit,
I don't usually move the Tint Slider
nearly as much as I move the Temp Slider.
Next we have the Tone Adjustments.
At the top of the Tone Adjustment is the Auto Tone button.
I use this on every single image
is powered by Adobe Sensei Artificial Intelligence
and it's really good at what it does.
If you get in the practice of using Auto Tone
and then evaluate what Auto Tone does,
it'll help you learn how to adjust
the settings for the best possible results.
For example, notice that it took the Highlight Slider
to the left and the Shadows Slide to the right
99.9% of the time this is how I make my adjustments.
Fact in this image I'm going to take the highlights
all the way down to minus 100 .
And notice that it pulled out some more details
in the sky where the light area is.
And then if I want to see more detail
in the shadow area of the cliff,
I'll move the shadow areas to the right
so almost like shining a light in that area.
It works really well.
Below that we have the Presence Sliders,
which have the effect of adding contrast and detail.
I like to start at the bottom with De-haze
and work my way up, but De-haze is really extreme.
So I use it very sparingly
and this image doesn't need any De-haze.
So we'll skip over that and we'll go to clarity,
and as I crank up, the clarity will notice
that it really pulls the detail out of the cliff
and I'm really liking how that looks.
If we take this too far, though, pay attention to the sky.
If I take this all the way up,
the sky might start looking a little bit
chunky and unnatural looking.
So be careful with that in the Clarity Slider.
And then if you like the hazy mysterious look,
you could always go to a minus number
for any of these Presence Sliders.
I don't really like that look though.
So I'm going to take this clarity back up about halfway up
and then finally, we have the Texture Sliders,
this adds contrast detail and the fine textural areas
but you need to zoom in to see it work.
So I'm going to click over here
on the stone wall to zoom in on it.
And then we'll take the Texture Slider up
and we'll see the fine details
of those rocks really start to come out.
That's looking great now
I'll click on the image to zoom back out to full picture.
And after I added the Texture Slider,
it feels like maybe it's just
a little bit too chunky looking
so I'm going to back off on the clarity.
The vibrance and saturation can be adjusted to taste.
Understanding how these work helps decide which one to move.
The Vibrance Slider is going to go after the colors
in your image that are the least saturated to begin with.
And that's typically the cool colors are the blues.
So if I take the vibrance up we're going to see
the blue and the sky become more saturated.
That's probably too fake looking.
So all backed up back down,
and then the Saturation Slider is going to saturate
those warm colors pretty quickly.
So a little bit goes a long ways with that.
Now that we've gotten through the Basic Panel
we can see a before and after
of our image with the backslash key.
Wow, this photo went from not too good
to pretty amazing with just a few quick Basic Panel edits.
If you want to learn more about the Histogram, Tone Sliders,
White Balance and Presence Edits, check out my course.
Lightroom: Get Professional Results.