- [Instructor] Congratulations, you've made it
to what I think is the most fun part of the course,
where we're going to walk through some common examples
of times when you'll want to use Photoshop
with Lightroom Classic.
So this will give you some ideas
of how you can use the skills you acquired so far
with your own photos.
One thing people often want to do
is to change the color of an object in a photo.
Although Lightroom Classic does have some features
for working with color,
when you want to change the color of just a single object,
you're often going to get a better result
if you take the photo over to Photoshop
where you have selection tools,
adjustment layers, blend modes, and more.
So let's start with this JPEG in Lightroom Classic.
I'll select the thumbnail
and then I'll press D on the keyboard
to take that into the Develop module,
where I would make some basic photo edits.
This is a night shot so the exposure is pretty good as is.
But I might add just a bit more exposure.
Now I want to take the photo into Photoshop
to select the pink wall and change its color.
I'll go to the Photo menu
and choose Edit in Adobe Photoshop.
Because this is a JPEG not a raw file
we see this intermediary window
asking us how we want to pass the file over,
and because it's a JPEG we learned that it's best to choose
Edit a Copy with Lightroom Adjustments.
So I'll click the Edit button,
and that will switch me over to Photoshop,
with this photo open for editing.
Photoshop has lots of different ways
that you can select an object.
I'm going to use an old favorite,
the Magic Wand Tool,
which is useful for selecting large areas
of a similar color.
So I'm going to click on this wall.
And then I'll hold down the Shift key
to add to the selection,
and I'll click on these other areas of the wall
that didn't get selected.
And if some things get selected that I don't want to include,
like the flower box here, I can select the Lasso Tool,
set it to its Subtract from Selection option
in the Options bar,
and I'll just come in and drag around the area
that I want to remove from the selection.
And then I can always add back in
a few spots that didn't get selected.
You can spend more time than I am
fine-tuning your selection.
When you're ready, go to the bottom of the Layers panel,
click the Create New Adjustment layer icon
and choose Hue Saturation.
I'm going to drag that out of the way
so that you can get a better view of that pink wall.
And then I'll experiment with the Hue slider
to change the color of the wall.
You can choose any color you like.
I'm going to go with this blue color,
and then I might desaturate it a little
to match the saturation of the surroundings,
and I might increase its lightness to brighten it up.
If you take a look at the Layers panel,
you'll see that I have a new
hue saturation adjustment layer,
and that it has a layer mask on it.
The black areas of the layer mask
were the non-selected part of the image,
the white areas of the mask were the selected part.
And so this adjustment is being hidden
from everywhere except the white areas
of the mask, the wall.
Now I'm going to make one more adjustment layer
to brighten the wall up.
I'll click on the Background layer,
I'll go down to the bottom of the Layers panel,
and click the new adjustment layer icon
and this time I'm going to choose Levels.
And then in the Properties panel,
I'm going to drag the gray slider to the left
to brighten up the blue color of the wall,
even more than I was able to do
in the hue saturation controls.
Now this levels adjustment is affecting the entire image
and I want to limit it to just the wall.
So I'm going to copy the layer mask
from the hue saturation adjustment layer,
to the levels adjustment layer
by selecting the layer mask on the hue saturation layer,
holding the Option key on a Mac or the Alt key on Windows,
and just dragging that mask onto the levels layer,
and clicking Yes.
And then I'm going to drag my Properties panel back over here,
and collapse it.
And there's the result.
Now let's save this and return to Lightroom Classic.
I'll go to the File menu, I'll choose Save.
That saves a TIFF version of the image.
So when I go back to Lightroom,
you can see that I now have a TIFF
that contains the edits that we made
in both Lightroom Classic and in Photoshop,
and right next to it the JPEG
with just the Lightroom Classic adjustments.
So that's how to use Photoshop with Lightroom
to change the color of an object.