- [Instructor] The round-trip workflow
you'll be using throughout this course
starts in Lightroom Classic.
That's because Lightroom Classic
is where you probably keep track of your photos,
and Photoshop doesn't have a place to do that.
The first step is to locate a photo to work on
in the Library module.
In the Folders panel on the left side of the Library module,
go to the Folders panel, and there,
click on the Chapter 1 Raw Workflow sub-folder.
In there, you'll find a photo,
click on it, and then go up to Develop, and click there,
or just press D on your keyboard.
That will open that photo for editing
in Lightroom Classic's Develop module.
I encourage you to do your basic photo editing
in Lightroom Classic, rather than in Photoshop,
because frankly, photo editing is simpler
here in Lightroom Classic than it is in Photoshop.
Lightroom sliders and other controls
are pretty intuitive, and you don't have to know
any special techniques to make basic improvements
to tone, color, and other photo qualities,
so let's do that.
Let's go to the Basic panel
on the right side of the Develop module,
and I'm going to start
by clicking Auto here in the Tone section.
That improves the photo, but there's more that I could do.
For example, I'd like to cut through
some of the haze in the background,
so I'm going to go down to the Dehaze slider,
and I'll drag that to the right.
And by the way, throughout this course,
you don't have to use
the same values for your controls that I'm using.
Make the photo look the way you want it to look.
When I do increase Dehaze,
I sometimes like to decrease Vibrance and Saturation,
and I think I'm going to add some more contrast to this photo,
so I'm going to drag the Whites slider to the right
to brighten the very brightest parts of this image,
and I'll drag the black slider to the left
to darken the darkest areas.
Great, so that looks fine for a start.
I'd also like to remove some of the objects in the water.
Re-touching like that
is usually best done in Photoshop,
because Photoshop has a variety of retouching tools
that are specifically designed to hide content seamlessly,
but there is some retouching that you can do in Lightroom,
so let me show you an example of that,
and then, we'll take the photo to Photoshop
for the more complex retouching.
I'm going to go up to the toolbar above the Basic panel,
and there I'm going to click on the Spot Removal tool.
I'll leave the settings for this tool
at their defaults, and I'll move into the image,
and I'd like to remove
this little duck swimming in the water,
so I'm going to make my brush tip
just a little bigger than that duck
by pressing the left bracket key on my keyboard.
That bracket key is right next to the P key.
And then, I'm just going to click and drag over the duck,
and he disappears.
So that worked pretty well,
and I may have some luck on other items here, too,
but instead of trying it here,
I'm going to go to Photoshop,
where I'm sure I'm going to get a great result,
so stay tuned for the next movie,
when we're going to hand this file off
from Lightroom Classic to Photoshop for retouching.