Using The Develop Module in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use Adobe's Lightroom Software. All right, so now, we're on our develop module. We're going to scroll through here. I'm going to find a good picture to use. Let's go with--this one of [PH] Chango LaChug. Alright so, we're going to go develop this picture. Click on develop. Enter the develop module. Wait for the picture to load up. There we go. And so, we're going to go over here. On the left hand side, you can see some presets. There's a lightroom preset, the ones that come with it. We've got "age photo" or "antique grayscale." Let's see, it gives you that nice aged 1970s photo look. Now, we can go through our black and whites, and you'll see in this top preview window, it'll actually show you the preview, without having to actually apply it. Let's make him black and white. Let's see, what else can we do to him? We can grayscale him. We can make him really punchy, like really crisp black and white. It's going to be a good look for him. We can, let's see--we can go through here. There's also some user presets if you set your rounds, you can get those in there. Snapshots, the snapshots, you can take as you go and change him up. And then, the history shows every single change you've made as you mouse over it. So say, you did one ten steps back and forgot how to do it, you can just click right here and go right to it. Alright so, we're going to actually undo some of the--it's like your undo, or something, you can hit command Z, or you can actually hit undo, as we're going to go all the way back to our original photo. And in the right hand side over here, you can see how we're gonna--well, there's a histogram at the top. See, you can look at the color palettes of the photo. Below that, you're going to see your basic color corrections. Up top there, we're going to have our--well, there's our grayscale corrections too, which has it's own grayscale set of balancing tools as opposed to using the color ones in a grayscale palette. We'll see we can adjust the color tint that make it a little bit warmer, make it cooler. That's probably a little too cool. There we go. You can adjust your exposure. You can adjust your blacks. You can adjust the brightness of the photo. You can adjust the contrast. Let's try to do the contrast up here, make him look really overly stylized. There's individual colors here. So you can go to every single color and adjust the hue and saturation."