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Lightroom Mobile Full Editing Class for New Users
Feb 25, 2022
Hey everyone, welcome to FilterGrade. Today we’re taking a look at Lightroom Mobile. This tutorial will be recorded on an Android device but everything in this tutorial will apply to iPhones as well. View the full article: https://filtergrade.com/complete-lightroom-mobile-editing-class/ View Popular Lightroom Mobile Presets: https://filtergrade.com/product-category/mobile-lightroom-presets/ View Popular Lightroom Presets: https://filtergrade.com/product-category/lightroom-presets/ View trending digital products from creators on FilterGrade: https://filtergrade.com/shop/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Follow FilterGrade! Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/filtergrade Twitter - https://twitter.com/filtergrade Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/filtergrade/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/filtergrade/ Newsletter - https://filtergrade.com/filtergrade-newsletter/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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hey everyone welcome back to filtergrade
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today we're taking a look at lightroom
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mobile this tutorial will be recorded on
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an android device but everything in this
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tutorial will apply to iphones as well
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now if you already know the desktop
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version of lightroom then this mobile
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version should come pretty naturally to
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you but there are a few key differences
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and when you first open the app you'll
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need to import or take a photo
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your device's photos are not
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automatically picked up by the app
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once you import a photo from your
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gallery you'll find it in the all photos
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folder
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open the folder and select a photo to
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start the editing process now before you
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do anything else you could just click on
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auto this will adjust the image in a way
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that lightroom thinks is best but you
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probably won't be using it after all you
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downloaded this app to have more power
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over your editing so you should use it
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but if you really need a quick
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adjustment i guess it's there
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so the first tab you'll want to start at
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is light
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this tab includes exposure contrast
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highlights and shadows and whites and
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blacks
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every image is going to be different but
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i'll go through a quick guide on how to
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use these tools exposure adjusts the
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overall brightness at least right now
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i'm happy with my exposure on my image
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contrast is the relationship between the
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lightest and the darkest point this
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image has very low contrast by default
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so i'm going to increase the contrast
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quite a bit
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highlights are the lightness of the
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bright points in the image our sky is
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kind of blown out in this picture so we
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can adjust the highlights down a bit
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overexposed parts of the image like this
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can't have much detail saved from them
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but bringing the highlights all the way
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down does help get a small amount of
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detail back from the fence around the
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sky
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shadows controls the lightness of the
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dark points in the image i'm going to
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use this to increase the overall
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contrast a bit more to darken the fence
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and trees in the background
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the whites and blacks controls adjust
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what the whitest white and blackest
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black are for this image i'm pretty
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happy with the tone of the whites but
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we'll turn down the blacks a little bit
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to get a darker background
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also in the light tab is curves
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curves are a bit more of an advanced way
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to adjust lighting
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the left side of this chart covers the
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darks and the right side covers the
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lights the midtones will of course be in
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the middle
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this basically lets you adjust your
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contrast to a more fine degree
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most edits can benefit from what's
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called an s-curve so we're going to show
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how to create one tap to create a point
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on each of the three middle
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intersections on the grid now we should
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have five dots on this line
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now drag the mid-lows down and the
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mid-highs up
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this is a basic s-curve but going too
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far with curves can have drastic and
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unwanted effects feel free to experiment
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around on your image because this can
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dramatically change what the picture
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looks like
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this can create massive color changes in
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your image and give you a lot of control
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and of course you can also adjust the
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curves individually for red green and
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blue for even more control
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you can create a similar s-curve on each
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of these three colors to bring out
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better colors in your whole image
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or change it up if you would like to
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have one color stand out compared to the
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others
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speaking of color now we can move on to
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basic coloring this includes temperature
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and saturation we can set an automatic
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white balance by using the eyedropper
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tool to set our white point
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this will adjust temperature and tint
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automatically and give us a good
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starting point
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even though the wall on the left side in
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this shot is not actually perfectly
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white i'll set it as the white point and
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we can see the tool makes the image a
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little warmer to compensate
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i actually like how this looks so i'll
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keep it you can easily adjust the
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temperature and tint manually from here
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saturation and vibrance are similar
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concepts but do have some differences
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saturation boosts every color in an
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image vibrance boost the least saturated
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colors first
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i'm going to reduce the saturation
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slightly and then increase the vibrance
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by quite a bit
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this will result in a vibrant green
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image without blowing anything else out
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if we only increase the saturation to
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achieve our bright greens other colors
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are going to pop out too much and we'll
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get some distortion notice the ugly
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yellows around the fence
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they are much more pronounced when we
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just increase the saturation and we
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don't want that
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color mix is where the real power is
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this lets you select a color range and
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adjust only that color range
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this lets you completely change an
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entire color or change its saturation
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for example in our image we mostly have
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green
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by selecting green and adjusting the hue
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we can dramatically change our image by
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seeing the plant and grass changing to
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either more cyan or more yellow
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one thing we can do here is change the
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fence color we can do this by selecting
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the orange range i like pushing it a
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little bit more towards the reds so that
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the darker and richer wood tone that
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contrasts better against the green of
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the plant
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you can adjust every color range this
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way to get your desired look
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one other thing i want to do here is try
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to adjust the bright hose in the
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background that lives in the cyan range
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and i can adjust the hue to the green
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side
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and bring the saturation way down so
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that just kind of blends into the
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background instead of standing out as an
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unnecessary focal point
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a great way to figure out what each of
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these color ranges contains is to just
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select it and drag the hue around to see
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what you notice changing colors you can
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always set it back to zero
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the effects tab adjust a few other
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visual settings
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texture will change how smooth the image
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is if we bring it all the way down we
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get a really soft and dreamy look if you
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bring it all the way up some of the
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foreground texture in our image pops a
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bit more and the texture on the wall is
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also a lot more pronounced
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a little bit of additional texture
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should serve our image well
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clarity adjusts the sharpness of the
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midtones in our image dropping the
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clarity results in a lot of softness
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while retaining some sharp edges in the
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foreground
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if we increase the clarity then the
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image gets sharpened especially in the
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background and the image overall seems
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to get brighter in order to create the
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necessary contrast to make the textures
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pop out
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dehaze is similar to contrast the
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difference is that dehaze adjusts the
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contrast in smaller regions rather than
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the entire image
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this image doesn't really have any haze
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to speak of so adjusting this results in
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an overall brightening or darkening of
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most of the image which i don't think we
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want
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vignette will create a black or white
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halo around the edges of the image a
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small vignette can draw focus in an
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image and make it more dramatic
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dragging to the left will create a black
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one and dragging to the right will
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create a white one
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once we create a vignette we'll unlock
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all of its settings such as midpoint
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feather and roundness midpoint adjusts
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how far in the vignette is feather
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adjusts how strong or weak the fade is
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and roundness is how circular or square
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it is
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the last setting on this tab is grain
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this will add film grain to the image to
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give it a more vintage look you can then
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adjust the size and brightness of the
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grain to customize it further
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in the detail tab we can adjust
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sharpening and noise reduction
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increasing sharpness will increase the
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edge contrast between items making the
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image pop out in this way
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noise reduction as it suggests can help
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reduce any noise or grain in your image
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the optics tab lets you remove chromatic
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aberration if your image has any but
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more than likely you won't really need
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to apply this
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the geometry tab can help align an image
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that isn't arranged correctly you can
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distort it adjust various angles and
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offset the image on the canvas
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mobile also lets you use selective
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editing in the selective tab you can add
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an area either by painting it or
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creating a shape mask
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then you can use all of the editing
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tools we just mentioned to edit only
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that highlighted section this is one of
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the most powerful tools in lightroom and
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lets you edit things like faces or to
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pop out the color of something specific
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in your image
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lastly let's look at the presets tab
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these are preset filters that come
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included with lightroom but you can also
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add others from third parties we have a
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video on how to import more presets and
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as you can see i already have a set of
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free presets from filtergrade installed
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and ready to use
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these presets will override your other
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settings so they're more than just
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filters they'll adjust all of your
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lighting color and effect settings
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great now your image is complete but
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what do you do with it now it's
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automatically backed up to the cloud and
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you'll be able to continue editing your
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project in lightroom desktop otherwise
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if you'd like to export your photo click
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on the share symbol to export to your
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device and you can also share a link to
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the project for collaboration once
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you're done you can click on the back
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button to return to the main menu
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and that's our guide to lightroom mobile
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the app makes it easy to do advanced
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edits on your photos and the ability to
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bring the project into lightroom desktop
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extends that power
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if you have any more questions about
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lightroom mobile or photo editing in
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general let us know in the comments
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check out our other videos to learn more
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in the meantime go ahead and experiment
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in lightroom mobile and see what you can
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create
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