- [Instructor] Family photos are a treasure,
and so it makes sense to do as much as you can
to preserve them.
Lightroom Classic offers some features
that you can use when restoring old photos,
but when you really do a deep dive into photo restoration,
you're going to have to take your photos
from Lightroom Classic into Photoshop.
So one of the things you might do in Lightroom Classic
is to try to fine tune the color,
because old photos of course, fade
and get color stains on them.
I'll take this photo into the develop module,
and I'm just going to use the white balance eyedropper
to see if I can take out some of the
warm tones in this photo.
With this eyedropper,
I'll just click on something I think should be gray,
like this.
And that has a big effect on the color of this photo.
I'm actually going to take the yellow slider
and drag it back over to the right just a bit.
And the magenta slider, too,
because I think it looks more natural for an older photo
to have some color tint.
So now let's take the photo to Photoshop to do more.
I'll go to the photo menu and choose edit in,
edit in Adobe Photoshop.
And we'll edit a copy with these Lightroom adjustments.
The retouching tools in Photoshop are really amazing,
and can bring an old photo back to life.
One of the things they're good at
is hiding scratches and tears.
So let's zoom in so we can get a close look
at this area of the photo.
And then I'm going to go to the bottom of the layers panel,
and I'm going to make a new layer.
And I'm going to call this retouching.
And I'm doing this so that I have flexibility
after I make these changes
to go back and re-edit them if I want.
And also so that I'm not directly impacting
the original photo.
And then I'm going to go over to the toolbar,
and I'm going to select the spot healing brush tool.
Now I'm going to go up to the options bar for this tool
and check sample all layers.
And that will cause Photoshop to sample pixels
from the background layer as well as the retouching layer,
and then it will lay those pixels down
on the retouching layer,
and it will automatically blend them
with the surrounding areas.
So this is one of your quickest tools to use
when you're trying to retouch an old photo.
All I'm doing is dragging over this scratch, and it's gone.
Let's try this one.
And this works even when you have complex backgrounds.
For example, notice that the background changes here.
Now here's a larger scratch.
Because this one is a straight line,
I'm going to try another trick.
I'm going to make my brush tip a little bigger,
so it's just a bit bigger than this scratch.
I'm going to click once,
and I'm going to hold the Shift key and click again.
And that will do the work of hiding the scratch
in a straight line.
So again, I did not click and drag.
I just clicked once at the beginning
and once toward the end of that scratch,
and it all disappeared.
And if I turn off the background layer,
you can see that these are all patches
being made for me on the retouching layer.
Let's do something a little different.
Let's work on color.
Here's an area where there is some color staining.
Of course, Photoshop has lots of selection tools,
so let's get one of those.
The lasso tool.
And I'm just going to isolate this area
where I want to try to fix this stain.
And maybe I add a little bit over here.
And maybe I'll add a little bit to this selection
right over here.
And now whatever I do is going to be limited to this area.
So I'm going to come down to the
create new adjustment layer icon,
and I'll choose hue saturation
to make a new hue saturation adjustment layer
with a mask already applied
that's hiding this adjustment from everywhere
except for that small area that we'd selected.
And then I'm going to come into the properties panel,
and I'm going to click this tool,
the targeted adjustment tool,
because I'm not sure exactly what color this is.
Maybe it's yellow.
Maybe it's red.
I'm going to click on that stained area,
and you can see in the properties panel
that this color actually falls within the yellows range.
And then with my mouse still held down,
I'm going to drag to the left.
And that is affecting just the yellow range of colors
inside of that selection.
And I'll reduce that stain like that.
So there's obviously a lot more
that you could do to this photo in Photoshop
using the spot healing brush tool,
it's cousin the healing brush tool,
which gives you more control
over which good pixels to sample as you cover up pixels
you'd rather not see.
The patch tool, which is useful for larger areas.
The content aware move tool
if you need to move or duplicate an area of content.
And the clone stamp tool as well,
which basically just copies pixels from one area
and places them down elsewhere.
When you are done retouching in Photoshop,
go to the file menu and choose save.
And switch back to Lightroom.
And there you'll find your version
of the photo with the changes that you made
in Lightroom and in Photoshop.
And next to it,
the version that you started with in Lightroom,
with only your Lightroom changes applied.
And you can undo those if you want to get back to ground zero.
So that's another important area
where you'll find yourself using Lightroom Classic
and Photoshop together as a team.