Are You Making These 7 Common Lightroom Mistakes? | Master Your Craft

[@davegball]

Loved the Transform/Auto tip.

[@juanrmartinez6598]

You are an excellent teacher, quick and to the point. Keep them coming

[@jorgelvs30]

Awesome tutorial, learned new tools....Thanks!

[@markmorley659]

Best lightroom tips I have seen so far. So many things in there I have never seen or used before . Thanks

[@wesjones6370]

When going to draw in the focus to the centre of a bright image with minimal vignette, I like to go subtle, and combine results. I drop the exposure slightly, drop the contrast slightly, and then desaturate the colour or vibrancy slightly. The aim being to make it barely noticeable, yet when all forms of contrast are combined, it draws the viewer’s eye to where I want.

[@juandeveraturda4392]

Thank you for these wonderful tips.

[@randyfox5317]

Nice workflow! (loved how you did an oops by not cleaning up the stop sign reflection) ;) Thanks for explaining that it is OK to leave a tad bit of pure black or white in an image. We often tend to pull the sliders back to totally remove the warning signs and that can be too much. Good video!

[@payamjirsa]

Hahaha, good catch Randy! I totally missed that while recording!

[@JustinBradleyPhotographer]

Pro tip, instead of drawing into your previous spot removal, hit "H", all previous spot edit areas will not get in your way while adding a new one. It's like the best use of the "H" button I have ever come across. Congrats on 1 million brother.

[@kadinaator]

Oh, that's a great tip - thanks!

[@serenitymattingly]

i was just about to comment this xD

[@serenitymattingly]

also i would remove the feflection

[@jonceballos8344]

That's amazing! I've been struggling with that for so long! That's so helpful

[@jonasforare1191]

Most critically useful video I've seen in quite a while...:)

[@connkenn]

Nicely done. Good reminders. Thanks!

[@dennisdragan1128]

Outstanding presentation with valuable tips!

[@eoslove2022]

Congrats on 1M! We regard this channel as a valuable learning resource. Thank you.

[@jex_au1102]

I'm glad you included dehaze. I think it's way underutilized.

[@meaganledoux8658]

Never knew the change of crop overlay option. So excited to try it out!

[@ericthomas6014]

Thanks for the work flow Pye!!

[@stephenmuller5098]

Great tips, thanks Pye!

[@ABAJZA75]

Thank you so much! Such good info!

[@Keenonhang]

Enjoyed that. Quick question. Can you get those crop overlays in Lightroom CC? I can't seem to find them.

[@s.bon.8952]

Great great tips!! Thanks!!

[@marivelmorales3660]

Nice.... Good video just started photography about 3 years ago and now i need to learn edits and yours are really natural. I love it.

[@Happa47]

Thank you for a great video with valuable tips, but the background music is annoying.

[@dodahlberg]

I was just going to post the same comment! I felt like I was on hold listening to elevator music while struggling to get some information. I also thought, as a retired teacher now teaching at a university, is this what we’re going to have to do to impart useful information?

[@mikecrosa8784]

Thanks for the explanations and your tips.

[@ewallperschwaznyk4169]

Is the bakground music all that necessary?

[@specialized41]

Great video.!! I can't wait for the next tutorial. Thanks!!

[@mahendrapratapsingh9210]

Thank you for the tips.

[@GONZOFAM7]

How do I save all those settings so I can apply them for the rest of the photo shoot? Great lesson, I'm obviously new to LR.

[@apjones58]

Pye, on your before and after comparison, the after image shows a reflection of the stop sign in the water after you removed it from behind the model.

[@josehijo]

Nice job on the reflections callout, I was getting trigger anxious to comment about that! Thank you for the tips!

[@karabosepeng9200]

Awesome video. thank you

[@DirkMichaelDeckbar]

Yes ! Really good tips but you have to reduce the background music

[@michaeldobala220]

Thank you for your valuable tips. The examples are well chosen. The background music is too loud for me personally. That may be due to my high affinity for music.

[@bentleybloodworth4282]

#6 Clean backgrounds (at 15 min) when using spot healing brush and want to brush on a spot all ready done hide your pins (short cut key H) then you can brush on it. This way you don't have to start outside the boundary of a previous spot then over it.

[@gnateedoe2044]

Phenomenal information

[@sebastianzurwesten4799]

Amazing video!

[@Sara-tp6zd]

This was so helpful, thank you!

[@bruce-le-smith]

fantastic, thank you

[@IngBass]

Hi Pye! What do you think about color profiles as a tool to improve color in your photos? I prefer to use "camera standard" color profile instead of "Adobe color"

[@donaldkelley5785]

Excellent Tutorial !

[@michaelgabes7574]

Will bookmark this link, as my basic go through, even if I'm a Affinity-User. The steps are the same! thank you, great job!!

[@kevindrury6322]

I'm colorblind and white balance kicks my ass all the time. I find myself doing more B&W than most people would because I just don't trust myself to get colors right. Great video though. Thank you.

[@wesjones6370]

Give it a shot anyways. Joel Grimes is colourblind too. He’s known for having punchy photos with colour contrast. What people say makes my work stand out is the punchy colour contrast that draws attention. The reason is because I don’t see full colours much myself. It wasn’t intentional, I just edited the colours until they looked right to me. People love it. You might just wind up creating your own unique style that people like because you see things differently.

[@truevitalenergy]

@@wesjones6370 Great point! Sean Tucker is another color blind photographer and his colors are beautiful! ❤️

[@greatday2224]

Thanks Pye

[@dangallagher8034]

You rock Pye ...

[@johns6290]

Great tips

[@lifeinpixelsphotographer]

Great tips thank you will use them in my workflow :)

[@fernandocancino1573]

Forgot to take out the reflection of the stop sign in the water, thanks for a very interesting video.

[@susysclips]

Thank you, another handy tutorial, appreciate the effort 👍

[@marclabro]

very nice tuto. being a vfpreset user and fan, i still have difficulty to understand the way you tune contrast. when i do it myself, i decrese highlight, increase shadow and then, with ALT key i increase white and decrease black. I don't understand how you can have negative whites and positive highlights, especially for such good exposed photo. Can you please explain ?

[@andrewreardon9400]

Hi good info. There was one thing that bugged me the Signpost reflection looked a bit weird.

[@TownFunk]

These are some great tips! I'd love to know how Pye gets his Lightroom to run so quickly. I've got a high performance machine, but Lightroom is incredibly sluggish for me.

[@JohnMacLeanPhotography]

15:06 change your tool visibility to Never and then you can draw over the previous healed area. 😉

[@bardoteachings]

👌

[@RealtorMartin]

Or hit "H" to hide the pins, to allow you to draw over an already healed area.

[@jeffellis6544]

But then you don’t know where your other pins are. Hitting H seems like a better solution

[@anandthakre9265]

thanks a ton mate, it's really useful, simple but impressive ✌

[@jonstivers]

Greatt video! I can do without the repetitive backing track. Great video!

[@jpdj2715]

White Balance. If you shoot raw only, your white balance setting does not change the raw file. It influences the initial depiction in your raw processing software. I generally have my camera on "Cloudy" and for all outdoors and flash photography this gives a good starting point. You'll notice after some time that the "cloudy" setting gives a better start in say early morning shots or sunset - auto white balance may try to make the color of that moment of the say go away. For critical color work, I shoot a ColorChecker Passport (CCP) before each series in similar lighting conditions and in Lightroom use the dropper to a grey patch and apply the correction to the entire series. When color is even more critical, I run the CCP shot through the matching software so as to create a profile file and apply that to the series. And, bonus, preventing the camera from Auto WB-ing reduces shutter lag ...

[@pedrobartolomei7707]

thank you so much, very useful

[@carlosdias1940]

Thank You! What an enjoyable channel - a wealth of knowledge! It's great, to now and then, have a video like this one to tune up and refresh skills. Regarding the 'white balance' - Question: the values on RGB have really to be an equal value? R90.2 G89,0 B90,0, really hard to match! Cheers

[@victoriajeanlua7845]

Amazing!! 🙌

[@brentkingston4389]

Very interesting 😎

[@enuf247]

Great work!!!

[@svetlanagrobman3476]

Hi Pye, I have a question about posing (sorry, it's not what this video is about 😦). Do u have any videos about posing families with children? Thanks.

[@nomdutilisateur]

I get a tip for you Pye: to reset any parameter, just double click the label (I saw you struggling trying to double click the tiny cursor)

[@HR-wd6cw]

Or double click on "Tone" (above Exposure) to reset all sliders to their defaults...

[@chocolatesugar4434]

Great video 💜

[@barrydillon8801]

Great video for sure

[@peteristvanphotography]

Great tips, thanks

[@richardlynam2007]

Some great tips, cheers

[@renzoodorico7848]

Question. What temperature is considered neutral and why?

[@m3portraitphotography201]

It depends on the light you are shooting under, daylight temp is usually 5000-5500 Kelvin(flash is typically rated "daylight"), Tungsten would be 3200-3500K, etc....knowing the temps for all the different light sources will help you with a general starting point for a kelvin temp to set your camera at. Which would be "neutral" for that light source. Ideally though, manual white balance for the win.

[@jairoplagio5100]

I would like to listen and see some9ne ex0lain why diferebts modifiers produce diferebt tons oa skins and flashs too. So what flash and modifier use to take the more real white that we can produce without profotos!))

[@walo2k5]

amazing stuff

[@TheBenchapman]

The white balance/tint tutorial 👌👍

[@m3portraitphotography201]

I've always added a light vignette with the effects-post crop vignetting, how does this differ from the method you showed here, is it not as effective as your method?

[@granbyplungar2929]

The post crop vignette is centralised and symmetrical. Using the radial filter, the centre of the vignette can be located wherever you wish and can be asymmetrical as in this case.

[@Suhailkhan53]

Nice video

[@adrianzok4187]

Great movie!

[@Arrowliliphotography]

Thanks for the great tips but I'm another vote about the music, it really made my head hurt 🙁

[@notallaboutmeministry3285]

This was helpful. God's Masterpiece Photography

[@gfawhiterose8838]

Good video Just the background music is for hypnosis

[@WolfQuantum]

Great overall, but... You forgot to remove the stop sign from the reflection.

[@rj934]

Good information, but it may take hours to get that background music track out of my mind. I found the music track very distracting.

[@gabrielgpfoto511]

You miss to clean the reflection of the signal =)

[@tribalcuz]

don't forget to repeat clone on the reflections!!!

[@danbrowning2418]

Good video, but I note that you forgot to remove the sign between her legs in the reflection.

[@HR-wd6cw]

While I agree that WB is a bit subjective, I feel that at least at the time of capture, you SHOULD try to do your best to get as accurate WB as possible, especially when doing portraits. At least that way you have a reference point to work from (of course if you're shooting only in JPEG I think this is even more important, or at least important to know what WB you want at the time of capture as it's not as flexible as it is with RAW in post processing). I strive to get the most accurate WB, and THEN adjust in post (I also shoot RAW so this makes it a bit easier) but at least that way I have a reference point to go back to, and when possible, I use a grey card (I have a portable one that clips onto my camera bag that's about the size of a credit card). At least this gives me a reference point to start from. But i think a lot of people (especially beginners) forget about this and they carry it through to the exported/final image without thinking about it. Personally, I think everyone (especially those who shoot portraits/people) should have a grey card with them just in case....Landscapes and travel...? You can probably be a bit more flexible as a bit more saturation or warmer tones isn't going to throw off someone's eye, but if skin tones are too warm (or even too cool almost to a point where they might have a blue tint) that will draw attention really quickly on a portrait. (FYI: double-clicking on the word "Tone" above the Exposure slider resets all the sliders to their defaults...)

[@rosssayer6524]

Would have been nice to have removed the reflections of the sign, overall some good tips, thank you for sharing 👏👏

[@HDvids101]

Yeah it is funny how I can look at an image and about the 10th time I'll see something that I missed 9 times LOL

[@tempestelf2]

You can infact use the clone tool over the same area. You simple hide the points. I do it all the time.

[@toasty2324]

Nice vid but i feel like ur overcomplicating white balance, as long as u shoot in raw then just slap it on auto in cam n u can fix it in 3 seconds in lightroom. I'd much rather focus on settings i can't change in post.. maybe I'm wrong tho.

[@bl4841]

models should always have a shot with a grey card to make white balance easy

[@Redhotlugnut]

Awesome vid. Perhaps for the background music you could just have a drum beat or something very simple as your background music makes me want to mute the video which won't help me learn much.

[@svetlanagrobman3476]

Oh, forgot. About Lightroom. We now have calibration, color grading and curves. Should we use all of them or two of them or choose just one? What are your thought about that?

[@BlueBass2]

Love the background music! Don’t listen to the haters, they’ve got beef against lofi

[@Batteristafoto]

The background music made this unwatchable. WTH guys!!

[@saraha9787]

My main concern is the pole reflection on water - that is missed out :(

[@fidato_]

I don't understand the difference between raw and jpeg. I edit both and get similar results.

[@macchoudhry5868]

This is really great info. But the repetitive music is too loud and annoying. It made me not want to watch the video as I was hearing it too much. But great content. Very well done. 👍🏽

[@Visuals_By_Amegh]

Dont forget to clean the reflection 😹

[@katscurry]

Great tips, but I found the music very annoying. (I wanted to spot remove it.)

[@rcfalcon56MkII]

Great instructional video but man, lose that obnoxious repeating music. The repeating of the music track throughout the entire video was terribly distacting.

[@geemangerard]

Stop sign is still in the water reflection

[@granbyplungar2929]

Excellent and informative video. The repetitive musical dribble in the background is cruel and unusual punishment!

[@gyrgrls]

All is well... except for that irritating MIDI loop

[@annscott77]

I am enjoying the video except that the background music is for me very annoying. It's not necessary.

[@MortenRasmussen]

Jezuz the underlying music is annoying. Good content though 😊

[@wpdoyle]

Great tips, but the background music loops in videos like this makes me want to smash my computer. So unnecessary and annoying.