Lightroom Archives - PhotoshopCAFE https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom.htm Adobe Photoshop tutorials and Lightroom tutorials Fri, 27 Oct 2023 04:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://photoshopcafe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/cropped-psc512-32x32.png Lightroom Archives - PhotoshopCAFE https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom.htm 32 32 Lens Blur in Lightroom and Camera Raw – Ultimate Guide https://photoshopcafe.com/lens-blur-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw-ultimate-guide/ https://photoshopcafe.com/lens-blur-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw-ultimate-guide/#comments Fri, 27 Oct 2023 04:13:08 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=58148 Ultimate guide to new Lens Blur In Lightroom and camera RAW. How to get a perfect result, how to fix the selection and apply the correct bokeh.

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All the features of the Lens Blur Filter in Camera Raw and Lightroom Classic

Lens Blur allows us to blur the background of a photo, to simulate using an expensive lens with a wider aperture. If you don’t have a nice lens, or you are working on existing photos, or photos supplied by someone else, this tool is very useful. Even if you shot with a nice lens, maybe you didn’t open it up when you took the shot, to you didn’t have a neutral density filter in strong light. There are many scenarios where you don’t have sufficient background blur on some photos. Let’s looks at all the features in this ai powered tool including how you can finesse the results. I hear mixed feeling on this, some people loving it and some hating it. Don’t worry about other peoples opinions, if you like this look, go for it!  Personally, I’m not a purest and I enjoy this feature. If you use it in a subtle way, it can produce very convincing results.

Adding background Blur

Let’s start with this picture I made of the cowboy in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Notice there  is a small amount of background blur, but not much.

Choose Lens Blur under the develop module.

When you turn on Apply, Lens Blur uses ai to detect the depth in the image and create a depth map. If the image was shot on a phone in portrait mode that makes a depth map, Lightroom/ACR will use that map.

See the icon of the head in white. This is focus on subject

Notice it detects the subject and blurs the background. Changing the blur amount effects how blurry the background it.

Generally, I add a little too much blur to start with, this makes it easy to see what we are doing and then, we roll the blur amount back at the end to a tasteful amount.

If you click the crosshair to the right of Focal Range, you can click on the photo. Wherever you click will become the area in focus.

When I click on the door its in focus.

Or the post in front of it.

You can also slide the box under Focal Range to change the focus, much like focusing a camera.

If you make the box longer, it extends the depth of field, making more of the photo in focus at once, like an f11 aperture or so.   Make the box more narrow for a shallow depth of field, like a f2.8. The video shows this clearly.

THe ai didi a decent job of selecting the subject (And in simpler photos, it’s pretty good. I chose this one with fine detail so we can see how to manually fix the selection)

The rope and the tip of hit hat needs some help.

Turn on Visualize depth to make it easier to see what’s going on.

The lighter areas are closer to the camera, whereas the darker areas are further away.

Lets manually adjust the selection.

Choose Focus to paint on the areas that should be sharp. Turn on Auto Mask to help with the edges.

Paint on the areas that need to be sharp, but were missed by the ai selection.

In order for them to match, adjust the amount. As you go to the left it pushes the painted area further into the background as you can see by the slight orange color.

Push the Amount slider to the right to make it closer to the camera. Now, it’s yellow. We want the area we paint to match the colors in the existing depth map for a perfect result.

Choose the Blur button to fix the areas outside of the rope.

Paint with the blur to include the areas of the background that were accidentally selected.

Adjust the Amount so the purple between the rope matches the background.

And here we have a pretty nice edge.

For a realistic result, Increase the depth range so that more of the photo is in focus.

Reduce the blur amount to a reasonable value.

Using Bokeh settings

Let’s use this as an example to show off Bokeh. Bokeh changes bright and specular areas into circles that imitate the way different camera apertures look for out-of-focus highlights.

Apple the blur and turn amount all the way up to easily see what’s going on.

Notice we made the Focus Range very narrow to smite a prime 1.4 or 1.8 (ish) lens.

Here I have highlighted one of the circles so you can clearly see the different types of bokeh shapes.

Circle is what’s on most modern cameras including mirrorless cameras.

Bubble adds a little stroke to the circle.

5-Blade gives us a pentagon to simulate the aperture opening on a vintage lens.

Ring simulates a camera with a mirror.

And the cat eye, provides an interesting variation

And the result, after lowering the amount a little bit.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you did, share it with your friends and on social media

Great to see you here at the CAFE

Colin

 

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Remove color reflections in Lightroom Classic ACR with new Point Color https://photoshopcafe.com/remove-color-reflections-in-lightroom-classic-acr-with-new-point-color/ https://photoshopcafe.com/remove-color-reflections-in-lightroom-classic-acr-with-new-point-color/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:30:01 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=58094 How to remove colored reflections in a photo with Point Color in Lightroom Classic and Adobe Camera RAW

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Fix Color in a photo with Point Color in Lightroom and Camera RAW

A new tool in Lightroom and camera Raw is Point Color. This tool enables you to select and change colors in photos based on Hue, Saturation and Lightness, as opposed to old tools which only let you select by hue. Point Color can also be used on Masks.

We will remove this color reflection from the photo of cameras.

How Point Color Works

First lets take a quick look at how Point Color does its magic.

Go to the Develop Module in Lightroom (Or Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop)

Go to Color Mixer and you’ll see Point Color.

Click the eyedropper tool

Click on the color you want to work with in the photograph

You will se the color is selected.

You can drag to the left or right to change the Hue (the color itself)

Drag up or down to change the Saturation. (Amount of Color)

Drag on the gradient to the right to change the Luminance (Light or Dark)

Of course you can always use the sliders which are named as such.

Try moving the sliders or the point in the color swatch, you can alter the corresponding colors on the image.

Here you can see the green changing.

Click the visualize Range box, or hold down Alt/Option as you move a slider to see the area that’s being changed. On the effected area will appear in color.

As we move the slider, notice the bar under the swatch shows the original color to the left and the new color on the right half of the bar.

We can refine which areas will be included by opening the arrow at Range to see the options.

Moving the range slider to the left decuces the reach of colors to be included, while sliding to the right increases the spread.

Use the Hue, Saturation and Luminance range sliders to further refine the selection. This is demonstrated on the video above

Notice, we can refine the selection so just the greens in the hedge are selected.

Change the Hue Shift to add a nice green to the hedge and no affect anything else. As I noted at the start, this will also work on masks if you need to refine it more.

Fixing the Color Contamination in reflections

OK, let’s look at this picture I snapped at an exhibit. You can see all kinds of colored reflections on the metal from surrounding colored lights. Let’s fix this.

Choose the eyedropper to select the purple color.

Refine the selection under range

Drag the saturation all the way to the left to remove the color.

There are still some salmon colored reflections.

Click with the eyedropper to add a second color.

Reduce the saturation to remove that color too.

Notice the red letters are still there on the camera.

Watch the video to see this more in depth.

I hope this was useful!

If you want to learn Lightroom Classic check out my course on Lightroom 2023 here, or the brand new course on Lightroom Masks

 

Thanks

Colin

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Lightroom 13 – Lightroom Classic 2024 New Features https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-13-lightroom-classic-2024-new-features/ https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-13-lightroom-classic-2024-new-features/#comments Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:18:41 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=58090 Learn new features in Lightroom Classic 2024 aka Lightroom 13 new features

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Adobe has released a new version of Lightroom Classic.

Here are the new features.

(Written steps coming soon)

If you want to learn Lightroom Classic check out my course on Lightroom 2023 here, or the brand new course on Lightroom Masks

 

Thanks

Colin

 

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Two New ai Masks in Lightroom Classic 12.3 https://photoshopcafe.com/two-new-ai-masks-in-lightroom-classic-12-3/ https://photoshopcafe.com/two-new-ai-masks-in-lightroom-classic-12-3/#comments Fri, 26 May 2023 01:04:37 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=55758 Lightroom just got an update and one of those updates is the addition of 2 new ai masks.

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Lightroom just got an update and one of those updates is the addition of 2 new ai masks.

The first is facial hair. This is useful for selecting and editing beards. You can make them darker or lighter. You can link the facial hair to the hair and get a more believable edit as they all change together. Also useful to get a little gray out of beards in Lightroom.

The second new mask is selecting clothes. To be brutally honest, this second one doesn’t work great at the moment, but I have come up with some tricks to make it work a lot better. I hoep this tutorial is useful for you. I’ll add the written steps later, its been a very busy couple of weeks for me content wise!

 

Thanks

Colin

 

Masks in Lightroom and Camera RAW (in Photoshop)

This new 3+ hour set of 26 tutorials will help you master the use of the new Masks in Lightroom or /and Camera RAW. Get it here

 

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Color Curves in Masks in Lightroom and Camera RAW https://photoshopcafe.com/color-curves-in-masks-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw/ https://photoshopcafe.com/color-curves-in-masks-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw/#comments Thu, 11 May 2023 01:14:37 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=55696 New to Lightroom, curves inside masks for powerful tone and color grading

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A more recent edition to Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW are the AI masks. There is something more important than you realize missing from Lightroom, that was the ability to use curves on the masks. I saw was, because that feature has now been added. It was already in Camera Raw. It doesn’t matter if you use Lightroom or Camera RAW, this tutorial will apply. In fact it applies to all curves in Lightroom and Photoshop. I do have a more detailed tutorial here for Photoshop though.

I also have a course on Camera Raw, Lightroom and another one for Curves

Curves in Masks in Lightroom

Let’s start with this photo I shot in Kauai, Hawaii.

 

Choose the Develop module and create a mask

Choose sky.

Make adjustments with exposure and Highlights to recover details in the sky.

The 5 sliders in Lightroom and Camera Raw cover 5 regions: Black, Shadows, Exposure (Midtones), Highlights and Whites.

You can also observe these regions on the histogram and actually adjust them by dragging on the histogram.

If you want more control over any of the regions, use the curves.

If you click the picker, you can drag up or down on your image to brighten and darken specific tones. (you need to add 2 points to get an effective curve) Lets see how they work..

Let’s create a new mask for everything but the sky.

Choose Create Mask and select sky.

Click on the 3 dot menu and choose Invert, this will swap the mask. (you could also have chosen Duplicate and Invert Mask from the previous mask for the same result.)

In curves the darks are to the left, the highlights to the right. Drag up to brighten, down to darken.

Drag up in the shadow area to open up the brightness of the image.

Notice the grass is too bright.

Drag down on the tones where the grass is. This will remove the brightening effect from the mids and highlights, effectively just brightening the shadow areas. (The video at the top shows this well).

Using Color in Curves, Curves Color Mode

Ok, this is really the juice of the tutorial. Using curves in Color mode is so powerful!

If you want to apply a different color to the highlights and the shadows, you would typically use Color Grading. Color Grading isn’t available in Masks. Curves can do what color grading can do, and more in the right hands.

In the curves, you will see 3 colored dots.

These represent the primary colors, (R) Red, (G) Green and (B) Blue. This is where we get the term RGB colors from. RGB are additive Primary colors, its based on light and all the colors added become white light, how the human eye sees color. But you don’t need to know that for this.

There is a second color mode you may have heard of. CMYK. (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black. K is black, but we are focusing on color, so C, M and Y are all we care about.

These are known as Subtractive Primaries, they function like pigment, such as paint or ink and all the colors taken away gets you whte. (You don’t NEED to know this either for this tutorial, but who doesn’t mind a little background info?)

What you will find useful (and no one talks about this in photography circles). For the purpose of Lightroom (and Photoshop) Color channels: The subtractive primaries are the opposite of the additive.

Opposite of red is Cyan

Opposite of Green is Magenta

Opposite of Blue is Yellow.

Click on the blue dot to activate the blue curve.

Drag up and the sky turns blue

Drag down and it turns yellow. Yellow is the opposite of blue.

These color channels don’t affect the tonality, they only affect the colors. (Technically, some do shift the tones a little bit, but not much)

Ok, lets get practical and put this to use.

We want to add a little orange to the Sky.

Choose the red channel. Drag up to add a little red. Not too much.

Orange is a combination or Red and Yellow.

Go to the blue channel and drag down. Now you are mixing in some yellow to get orange. Just like mixing paints.

Choose the other mask.

Now we are going to add blue to the shadows only and Orange to the highlights only

Push up the blue channel in the shadows. The shadows are to the left of the curve.

Click in the middle of the curve (midtones) and drag the curve to the center. Now it’s only adding blue to shadows and not midtones or highlights (highligts are to the right).

This is what the curve looks like

If the effect is too much, go to the top of the adjustments and you will see an Amount slider. This reduces or intensifies all the adjustments on the mask.

And here is our final. It doesn’t matter if this adjustment is to your taste or not, the point is to learn the tools so you can make your own adjustments that suit your style on your own images.

I hope you found this tutorial useful.

I have other tuts on the new Lightroom features.

What’s new in Lightroom 12.3
Denoise in Lightroom
Open Multiple images as Smart Object layers from Lightroom to Photoshop

Great to see you here at the CAFE

Colin

Masks in Lightroom and Camera RAW (in Photoshop)

Check out my brand-new course on Masking in Lightroom and Camera RAW.
If you want to master these very important image editing tools.

This new 3+ hour set of 26 tutorials will help you master the use of the new Masks in Lightroom or /and Camera RAW. Get it here

 

Get the course here

 

 

 

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Access Lightroom Adjustments inside Photoshop. Opens Smart Objects as Layers https://photoshopcafe.com/access-lightroom-adjustments-inside-photoshop-opens-smart-objects-as-layers/ https://photoshopcafe.com/access-lightroom-adjustments-inside-photoshop-opens-smart-objects-as-layers/#comments Wed, 03 May 2023 20:00:45 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=55639 How to Work with Lightroom adjustments inside Photoshop using Smart Objects as Layers

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New In April 2023 update in Lightroom Classic 12.3 is the ability to open Multiple images in Photoshop Layers as Smart Objects. This is Huge because it now means we have way more flexibility in editing composites without losing access to the original Lightroom edits, ever! I’m going to show you the workflow here and point out some useful features as well as pitfalls to avoid. You might want to bookmark this page, because I’ll outline my workflow, which I think is the best possible workflow for using Lightroom and Photoshop together. Check out the short video, which shows all this in detail as well as how to choose different versions of Photoshop to use with Lightroom.

Opening Multiple Images in Photoshop as Layers

Make your initial edits in Lightroom

Choose multiple files from Lightroom. For this example, we will just use 2 images. You can choose more if you want.

Right Click and choose Edit in> Open As Smart Object Layers In Photoshop.

Photoshop will launch and you will see a single document and each photo is opened as a Smart Object in a layer. (Learn about Smart Objects here)

You know its a Smart Object because of the icon on the layer.

These  have the advantage of containing all the Lightroom Adjustments inside the raw file which is contained in the Smart Object.

Double Click the Smart Object Thumbnail to open it in Camera Raw.

Camera Raw will launch with the image from your layer showing.

This image that opened is the Original RAW file from Lightroom. If you look at the adjustments, all the Lightroom adjustments are visible. All the sliders, masks and adjustments are preserved and can be changed in Camera Raw.

Even the crop settings are preserved. Here we will change the crop and even rotate the image, to show the flexibility

Click OK to apply.

Camera Raw closes and the Photoshop document updates to show the changes.

Lets hide the background on the boat. You will probably make different adjustments, I want you to observe the Lightroom and Photoshop Integration, this is the purpose of this tutorial.

Choose Adjustment layers and select Blending Options

Change the sliders on “Current Layer”. Drag the shadows to the right to hide the dark background pixels. Hold down alt/option and drag on the triangle to split it. How to use Blend IF to hide a Background in Photoshop

Back to Lightroom with the Photoshop Adjustments

When you have finished making edits in Photoshop, choose Save. Or press Ctrl/Cmd+S

As soon as you save, a new image (tif) is created and automatically added to Lightroom. (The location of the tif will be in the same folder as the original photo).

If you want to make any further edits to this new image, it’s best to make the edits in Photoshop and Camera Raw.

The first time you opened the file, you opened as a Smart Object. When you saved it, its now a Layered file with the Smart Objects inside.

Right-Click and choose Edit in>Edit in Photoshop

A window will appear.

Choose Edit Original.

Now Photoshop will open

All your layers are still there and your Photoshop edits are intact. All your Lightroom and Camera RAW edits are in the Smart Objects. You would Double-Click the thumbnails to open in Camera Raw just as before.

Create Nested Smart Objects for Global adjustments

The cool thing about Smart Objects is that we can combine multiple Smart Objects into new ones. This is called nesting.

Let me introduce you to a couple of terms to help. Adobe doesn’t officially use these terms, but I think they should.

Parent: The parent Smart Object, is the top level. All other Smart Objects can be nested inside the parent.

Child: All the Smart Objects that are within the Parent.

This allows us to apply adjustments to the entire image including all the layers. You can even apply presets, and all the edits, even the old ones are still accessible. Non-destructive. Let me show you here.

Choose Both Layers

Right-Click and choose Convert to Smart Object.

Now you just see a single Smart Object. This didn’t merge the previous 2 layers, it just tucked them away inside the Smart Object. (A new Parent is created, with 2 Child Smart Objects inside)

Think of a smart object as a container. So you just put 2 containers (children) inside a bigger container (Parent).

To apply an adjustment, we need to choose Filter>Camera Raw. (If you double-click on the thumbnail you will expand the Smart Object. More on that soon.)

Camera Raw will open and you can make adjustments. In this case, I applied a Preset.

Click ok and you go back to Photoshop. Notice the Adjustments have been applied.

Notice the Camera Raw adjustments appear as Smart Filters. You can use almost any filter you want in Photoshop, most of the Filters work as Smart Filters.

Click the eyeball next to Smart Filters, to turn the adjustments on or off.

To edit the adjustment, click the icon in the lower right of the Layers panel.

Blending Options will show up.

Adjust the opacity to lower the intensity of the camera Raw adjustments (the preset).

Press ok.

How to Access the original adjustments in a nested Smart Object

To access the original (Child) Smart objects or layers from within a (Parent) nested Smart Object, double-click the thumbnail.

The smart object will open inside a new tab

Click on the tab and you will see the original contents are now revealed and ready for editing.

Double click either of these and Camera RAW will open and all the settings will still be there, as before.

When you are finished, choose save.You can now close the tab.

The parent Smart Object will now be updated.

Choose Save again in the main Document.

The Lightroom preview will now be updated to reflect any changes.

I hope you found this tutorial useful.  If you are still confused in any way, please check out the video at the top, it explains things in a very easy to understand way.

Next step is to check out my other tutorials on the new Lightroom updates.

Lightroom Classic New Features

I have made a series of tutorials on the newest Lightroom features. Check out these other Lightroom 2023 Tutorials.

What’s new in Lightroom 12.3
Curves in Masks in Lightroom

Denoise in Lightroom
Open Multiple images as Smart Object layers from Lightroom to Photoshop

 

If you want to really Learn Lightroom, check out my new Lightroom 2023 For Digital Photographers Course here 

If you want to really Adobe Camera RAW, check out my new Adobe Camera Raw 2023 For Digital Photographers Course here 

For a limited time, take 20% off these courses with code CC23NF (These courses are how I fund everything here at the CAFE, notice that there are no ads)

 

Great to see you here at the CAFE

Colin

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lightroom New Features April 2023 update v12.3 https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-new-features-april-2023-update-v12-3/ https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-new-features-april-2023-update-v12-3/#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:11:06 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=55586 How to use the new Features in Lightroom 12.2. New update and new features in Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW, April 2023.

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What’s new in Lightroom 12.3?

It’s April and usually around this time every year, Adobe drops updates into their CC apps. The biggest updates are usual April and around October at Adobe Max (I usually speak at the event, although I haven’t yet been invited for this year).

Lets have a look at the new features. Note, most of these are also in Camera RAW which shares the same processing engine.

Denoise AI Noise Reduction

The first feature is a noise reduction that actually works, and works well. Its not without its caveats at the moment, see more about that on the dedicated tutorial I made on Denoise.

When you shoot with a high ISO you can get a lot of noise of grain in the image, especially the shadows.

Under The Detail panel you will see a new option that says Denoise. (Currently only works on Bayer and X-trans raw files)

Click on denoise (If it isn’t grayed, out. If it is grayed out, its not a Bayer or xtrans. Most DNG do not work at the moment. Adobe says they are working on it. No estimated date is given.

A panel will open with an amount slider. Mine shows an estimated time of 10secs. I have heard from some users, their estimated time is up to 10 minutes. Again, Adobe is aware and working on it.

Click enhance.

A new DNG file will be created with the Noise reduction applied. It works VERY well, as you can see below.

The manual Noise reduction is still available, you can see the difference here.

Yes, these can be batched processed, covered in my other tutorial, referenced earlier in this article.

New AI Masks in Lightroom and Camera RAW

By now, I’m sure you are aware of the AI masks. (I have made other tutorials on the ai masks) There are 2 new masks in the Person options.

Click on masks.

When a person is detected, you will see person 1. (more if there are multiple people).

Click on Person and you will see Facial Hair ands Clothes are now added.

Let’s start with the Facial Hair.

This will select beards and allow you adjust the beards. Usuallylighten/darken or change color.

The second option is Clothes.

At this time, the clothes setting doesn’t seem to work too well on my machine. I noticed it confuses different articles of clothing and mistakes arms for sleeves etc. How is it working for you? Drop a comment.

The good news is that, its really easy to fix the masks by using the add and subtract options with the brush.

Now you can easily change color or make other adjustments.

Curves on Masks

This is a huge one! Camera RAW already lets you use Curves on masks, but it was missing from Lightroom until now. Curves offer more precise color and tone adjustments than any other tool. Yes, I said color, curves secret Superpower. I made a whole course on curves here, they are THAT important.

Add a mask, in this case I used a Gradient.

Make tone and color adjustments. Yay, my life is complete 🙂

Open Multiple images as Smart Object Layers in Photoshop

If you work with multiple images, such as compositing, focus stacking, astro etc, you will love this feature.

Select multiple images.

When you Right-Click and Choose Edit in> You now have the option to choose “Open as Smart Object Layers in Photoshop”

This will launch Photoshop and place each image on its own layer as a Smart Object.

The Smart objects, apart from being non-destructive, allow you direct access to your Lightroom Adjustments. Double click any of the Thumbnails and they will open the RAW file in Camera RAW with all adjustments intact.

This makes it easy to do composites and such with much more control than in the past. Below is not supposed to be a masterpiece or perfect (I know, the lighting and shadow aren’t right. I didn’t take time to dodge and burn it. Please don’t bother pointing that out, as it doesn’t matter here — Yes, people can’t understand the difference between a tutorial and my real work, my pet peeve) , I just quickly wanted you to see that you can combine images together in a completely non destructive environment.

New Adaptive Presets

Lightroom and Camera RAW ship with more adaptive presets that take advantage of the ai masks

Panel indicators

On the panels you will see eyeballs that are lit up if there are any adjustments made. You will also notice the dots in the tools, if any of those tools are used. No change in Camera RAW, as this feature was already in there.

Mask History Steps

You will notice the mask adjustments are now added to the history panel, to help you backtrack and multi-undo.

Choose Photoshop Versions

If you go to your Creative Cloud app, you can have multiple versions of Photoshop on your machine at once. Some people keep older versions for access to things like the 3D tools or compatibility with certain plugins. You can also Install the public beta of Photoshop from your CC app. If it’s not there, please contact Adobe as there is nothing I can do about that (I get asked daily and wish I could help more).

Under Preferences, you can choose the Photoshop version. When you choose Edit In, it will use your selected version of Photoshop to work with.

 

Lightroom Classic New Features

I have made a series of tutorials on the newest Lightroom features. Check out these other Lightroom 2023 Tutorials.

What’s new in Lightroom 12.3
Curves in Masks in Lightroom

Denoise in Lightroom
Open Multiple images as Smart Object layers from Lightroom to Photoshop

 

If you want to really Learn Lightroom, check out my new Lightroom 2023 For Digital Photographers Course here 

If you want to really Adobe Camera RAW, check out my new Adobe Camera Raw 2023 For Digital Photographers Course here 

For a limited time, take 20% off these courses with code CC23NF (These courses are how I fund everything here at the CAFE, notice that there are no ads)

 

Thanks for checking out this tutorial and all the other tutorials here at the CAFE

Colin

 

 

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How to use Adobe Denoise AI In Lightroom and Camera Raw https://photoshopcafe.com/how-to-use-adobe-denoise-ai-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw/ https://photoshopcafe.com/how-to-use-adobe-denoise-ai-in-lightroom-and-camera-raw/#comments Fri, 21 Apr 2023 21:32:03 +0000 https://photoshopcafe.com/?p=55559 How to use the amazing new Adobe denoise, AI noise reduction in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw and examples.

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The latest addition to Adobe’s ai powered tools is Noise Reduction. Denoise is one of the most useful, practical tools that Adobe has released in a while. In the past, Adobe’s Noise reduction was a bit lack luster, but this isn’t the case anymore. This new feature is added to Lightroom and Camera Raw. This is the 3rd of the Enhance features that Adobe has delivered. The first was Raw Details, which worked best on Xtrans raw files (Fuji). Then came Super Resolution, and now Denoise. The caveats are, a new DNG File has to be created and that it currently only works on Bayer and Xtrans Raw files. (Camera Native). So it currently doesn’t work on DNG and other formats. Adobe says they are working on these limitations. The good news is the Denoise works extremely well and its easy to use, although processing may take a little longer than you are used to.

Noise us usually found in recovered shadows, or with images shot as a very high ISO. Lets look at both.

Here is an image with a lot of noise in the shadows.This is shot on a Sony A1 at ISO 5000, with very aggressive shadow recovery.

In the Details Panel in Lightroom and Camera Raw, you will now see Denoise.

If the image isn’t compatible, it will be grayed out.

Click on Denoise, or Right-Click on your image and choose Enhance.

The enhance menu will pop up.

lick denoise and choose an amount.

Click enhance

A new file will be created and then name appended to ..enhanced.

But, look at the result. Its really clean without softening of the details.

If you want to use the old noise reduction, choose Manual noise reduction (expand the arrow in the details panel

This is a result from the old noise reduction, not as good.

Here is a comparison, click to see a larger version.

On an night sky shot at ISO 128,000 on a Sony A73

Traditional Noise reduction

Adobe denoise

Lets look at an outdoor night scene. show with a Sony A73 at 102400

Traditional Noise Reduction

Denoise

Here is a close up 100% of the details. Click on the image for full size.

Removing Moire Patterns

Another thing this does well is fixing moire patterns.

These patterns will show up in repeating patterns such as fabrics (Why they always tell you to wear solid colors on TV and video).

These used to be a filter in Photoshop that fixed this, but it’s long gone.

Look at how well Denoise zaps the moire!

before

after

I hope you fond this weeks tutorial useful, stay tuned for more tutorials on the new Photoshop and Lightroom features! I really wanted to do this one first because I think its very important.

Great to see you here at the CAFE

Don’t forget to check out all our other free tutorials and courses!

Colin

Lightroom Classic New Features

I have made a series of tutorials on the newest Lightroom features. Check out these other Lightroom 2023 Tutorials.

What’s new in Lightroom 12.3
Curves in Masks in Lightroom

Denoise in Lightroom
Open Multiple images as Smart Object layers from Lightroom to Photoshop

 

If you want to really Learn Lightroom, check out my new Lightroom 2023 For Digital Photographers Course here 

If you want to really Adobe Camera RAW, check out my new Adobe Camera Raw 2023 For Digital Photographers Course here 

For a limited time, take 20% off these courses with code CC23NF (These courses are how I fund everything here at the CAFE, notice that there are no ads)

 

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Lightroom Classic 2023 New Features https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-classic-2023-news-features/ https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-classic-2023-news-features/#comments Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:23:55 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=53974 Lightroom 2023 Major new features, how to use new features in Lightroom

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Check out the new features in Lightroom classic including new ai masks and more.

The biggest new features in Lightroom are the ai masks for selections. Lightroom can now automatically select and mask skies, objects, foregrounds and faces.

In the faces, Lightroom can select hair, eyes, lips, face skin, body skin and eyebrows. These masks can be grouped together, or separated out for retouching.

There is also a new content aware fill style tool in the spot tool. Check out the video to see these new features in action in our Lightroom 12 aka Lightroom 2023 tutorial.

Let me know in the comments what feature you like the best

 

Thanks

Colin

 

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Lightroom 11.4 update, Powerful AI Mask presets and syncing to batch process images https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-11-4-update-powerful-ai-mask-presets-and-syncing-to-batch-process-images/ https://photoshopcafe.com/lightroom-11-4-update-powerful-ai-mask-presets-and-syncing-to-batch-process-images/#respond Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:15:09 +0000 http://photoshopcafe.com/?p=52378 New features in Lightroom 11.4 update, big masking updates included invert, presets and batch processing with ai masks

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New features in Lightroom Classic 11.4 update. Select subject and select sky presets and batch processing

 

This week Mid Jun 2022, Lightroom Classic and Lightroom received a nice update to v 11.4 for Lightroom Classic (more to come on Lightroom)

The new features include the ability to easily invert mask and mask groups. We also have the ability to add an ai mask, namely  select subject or select sky to a preset and it adapts to the images.

You can copy and paste masks and well as batch process them by syncing. The video shows all of these new masking features in use.

Another useful feature is a fade slider for any preset. Now we can dial in the preset, much the same way we do a profile.

GPU support is added for export. Go to Preferences>Performance to make sure its turned on.

There are also new presets added as well as camera profiles, updates to tethered shooting (still no Sony, sorry).

Ill add more tutorials soon digging into more of these features.

Please note, most of these features also appear in Camera Raw.

Thanks

Colin

Masks in Lightroom and Camera RAW (in Photoshop)

Check out my brand-new course on Masking in Lightroom and Camera RAW.
If you want to master these very important image editing tools.

This new 3+ hour set of 26 tutorials will help you master the use of the new Masks in Lightroom or /and Camera RAW. Get it here

 

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