Course Overview
This training course is over 3 hours. You will get a video for each retouching tool with exclusive photos only—not used on the YouTube channel—demonstrating how it works on one big retouch project. Then you have 7 projects from A to Z showing you a full retouch, all with the raw files included.
Lessons
24
Length
3 Hours 4 Minutes
Level
Beginner
Required
Lightroom 5
Lessons: Part 1
Tone Sliders & Histograms
The basic tone sliders, a short explanation of the histogram and how they relate to these settings
White Balance
How to set the white balance and what is it?
Vibrance, Saturation & Clarity
How to set up the Vibrance, saturation and clarity on your photos
Curves
Curves. How to set the curves
HSL Sliders
Hue, Saturation and luminance sliders, very powerfull tools to set your colors as you like
Sharpening & Noise Reduction
Noise and sharpen, how to get the noise out and sharpen your photos
Correcting Lens Distortion
Lens distortion, how to correct it
Calibration
Camera Calibration
Graduated Filter
Tool Bar: Graduated filter, a powerful tool to make great skies!
Lessons: Part 2
Brush Tool
Tool Bar: Brush Tool, how to change local lights and colors on your photo like a painter!
New Filter
Tool Bar: a new filter in Lightroom that has many uses
Spot Removal
Tool Bar: Spot removal tool
Looking for Spots to Remove
Tool Bar: Spot removal tool, visualize spots
Crop Tool
Tool Bar: The crop tool
Before & After
Tool Bar: Final before and after
Retouching Project #1
a Day light photo at Culver Studio California
Retouching Project #2
A long exposure photo of Notre Dame in Paris
Retouching Project #3
Black and white artistic Photography
Lessons: Part 3
Retouching Project #4
Portrait retouching!
Retouching Project #5
House Florida, the importance of shooting underexpose and raw compare to JPG
Retouching Project #6
Selective Color and working with Photoshop
Retouching Project #7
Panorama, the importance of shooting manual and the ability to sync your retouching settings
Creating Presets
How to create Presets
Installing Presets
How to install Presets