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This episode explores essential photo editing techniques, from basic adjustments like white balance and exposure to advanced styling with Lightroom and AI tools. We discuss useful apps, the role of presets, and offer insights into the evolving landscape of photography editing.
• Understanding basic editing principles like exposure, contrast, and white balance
• Explore free and premium editing apps for different skill levels
• The importance and effective use of presets in photo editing
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, mama, whether or not you're trying out your
camera for the very first timeor you've been doing this a
while and just looking for somecreative inspiration, I've got
all that and more.
I'm here to help you see yourworld differently, challenge you
creatively and find yourpassion for photography.
Welcome back to Better PhotosPodcast.
(00:21):
How have you guys been doingwith your challenges?
Last week we talked aboutcreative shots and I am going to
make such a great resource.
I'm going to take ourcomposition podcast and our
creative shots and I will have ashot list for your phone so
(00:48):
that you can download it.
And every session you can makeit like a checklist of getting
each shot.
So, whether it is framing orleading lines or a GIF or um
movements and getting blur, itwill all be in a list form that
you can download to your phone.
So check the show notes thatwill be coming out this week.
(01:14):
So this week I have had somemommy and me studio sessions and
I brought my client closetthere and this was a new studio.
It was in Concord, new to me.
It's been around for otherphotographers, um, and it has
the perfect lighting, theperfect beige platform
(01:37):
background that I love with this, like cute fireplace and, um,
like fake fireplace thing.
Um, and then this perfect, likenude blush wall, and so I had a
couple of moms meet me thereand with their kiddos, and we
got some of the most adorablephotos, um, so I just posted
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those on my Instagram at be poshphoto um for you to check out,
and I will hopefully be doingmore as we get closer to
Mother's Day and things likethat.
But it's nice to have somethingto do in the winter when it is
unpredictable with the weather.
You can always schedule aninside shoot so that you don't
have to cancel or reschedule.
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So that's what I love aboutindoors.
I also love being able tomanipulate the light a little
bit more, and it's definitelyhelpful in a studio that they've
already put um, some uh filterthings on the windows so that
you can get some of that goodlight, that filtered light, um,
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and so that is what I like, um.
Also, what else do we havecoming up?
Superbowl is tonight, soobviously I'm recording this
podcast the day before it comesout, but I've learned last week
I recorded it the morning of,and that was just too much.
So here I am recording thiswhile everyone else is watching
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the Super Bowl.
But we had the cutestValentine's Day slash
Galentine's Day party today formy girls and their friends and
their moms and we got all thislike jewelry making stuff and we
got charm all these differentcharms and everyone brought some
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charms.
Then I bought these necklacesoff Amazon and so they all got
to decorate their own charmnecklace.
I love that because it's so fun.
It gets to show theirpersonality and things they like
.
Then I got this vintage heartcake because obviously I needed
one of those from WildflowerBakery in Charlotte and it was
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just a fun time.
So I made a board on my Amazonstorefront that is Galentine's
and it has like all the stuffthat I got for the party in
there.
So I will link that in the shownotes in case you're hosting
something.
It was really fun, it would begreat.
I'm going to do it again formom's night.
So for today we're mostly goingto talk about basic edits
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talking about our white balance,your temperature, your tint
adjustments, exposure contrast,your highlights, shadows, whites
, blacks and saturation,vibrance and a couple other more
advanced editing skills and theapps that you can download for
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free, the ones that I use, andthen some fun things to just
excite you about your editingprocesses, so let's dive in.
This is the point.
If you haven't realized alreadywhy it's hard to be a
photographer by hobby, why it'shard to be a photographer by
hobby, once you start gettinginto these things the cost of
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equipment and the cost that youwill pay for apps and for more
involved features, and you'llget hooked on presets you'll
just start realizing that it isa very expensive hobby.
So if you're like me, I startedkind of like hobby and then I
was like, oh, my goodness, thisstuff costs so much, so let me
start charging um for somethings and start making money to
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pay for this um hobby.
So then it grew and then youhave to pay taxes.
So, yeah, all right.
So creative editing or justediting in general, let's talk
about that.
Okay, so you have some featureson your iPhone if you are taking
pictures like that.
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So if you went into your iPhonephotos and you clicked on the
little sliders at the bottom,you would see adjust, and so the
first one is going to be likean auto adjust and then you're
going to get a plus and minusfor exposure, which means that
you are going to kind of like onyour camera when you are doing
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the exposure there.
This is just going to happenafter and making your image
brighter or darker.
That's probably one of thethings that I'll mess with.
But you don't want to go toomuch because you're going to get
.
It just is not that great on aphone.
The highlights obviously you'reputting more whites or taking
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down some of the whites whereit's like so bright and white
and you don't want it to be.
It looks a little like off onyour photos.
You can pull that down.
You can add some more pops ofwhite with that.
The shadows you can bring upthe shadows a bit and you can
also bring them down if you wanta more contrasted image.
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So if you're looking at aspectrum of shadows and
highlights and you pull theshadows down and the highlights
up, you're going to have a veryhigh contrast image, which most
people it's not very flattering,so I think most people don't
love a high contrast image.
Again, then you'll have just aregular contrast and so this
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makes your photo not very like.
Anything you're adjusting,you're affecting the quality of
the image, especially in youriPhone editing.
So I try not to mess too muchwith iPhone editing in the photo
app again, so you can adjustyour saturation, how much color
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you want to pop.
You can pull it down and makeit more like old timey films, I
guess, or like those old timeyphotos when they add like sepia
later.
Vibrance is just going to behow I don't even know how to say
it maybe how like yellow-ish isbeing added to your colors to
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make them brighter and bolder,but in a yellowy kind of way, um
warmth you're going to beadding.
If you add warmth, you're goingto be adding like a yellows and
oranges to your image or go theopposite and take those out.
The next one is um tint.
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So that is going to be yourpurples and blues and greens and
sliding that.
And then you have sharpness,which never take a blurry photo
and adds sharpness.
It's not gonna help the blur.
A lot of the stuff that you wantto edit.
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It should be perfected in yourcamera first and then, and then
tweaked a little bit with um,your edit or with your um
adjustments.
Okay so, and then there's noisenoise reduction If you again
are shooting in a dark room witha um with your ISO bumped up
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super high and you may have somenoise um, or if you're in a
dark room on your phone and thenthat has some noise.
Um, so that are.
Those are some key things thatyou can do on your phone without
an app, all right.
So if you are going to get anapp, here are some
recommendations for um yourphone, all right.
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The first these are some freeones.
I don't use the free onesbecause I already pay for
Lightroom so that I can edit myraw photos and more megabytes.
So I have to edit on mycomputer so that I have, like,
enough RAM, enough memory,enough I don't even know what
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it's called but enough stuff tomake sure that it can handle all
of my photos.
I put all of my photos on aexternal hard drive so that it
can work faster.
And if something happened to mycomputer, it's on external hard
drive so that it can workfaster.
And if something happened to mycomputer, it's on the hard
drive, and I normally back themup to two hard drives.
Sometimes I put them on thecloud just to be extra careful.
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So photo apps that weresuggested is Snapseed came up a
lot.
Um, this is for iOS and Android.
Um, it is a complete andprofessional photo editor
developed by Google, offering awide range of tools and filters.
Okay, so that is one.
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You can also try Pixlr, p I, x,l R that is a web-based program
and iOS and Android, and now ithas AI features.
There's also PhotopeaP-H-O-T-O-P-E-A Photopea.
It's free as well, and itoffers advanced features similar
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to Photoshop, including supportfor Adobe file formats.
And then there is Canva, andthat has some things that you
can do, but, again, I'm nottrying to import all my photos
to Canva or on my phone.
Okay, so those are some freeones.
I'm not sure I don't have thosedownloaded on my phone.
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I don't really use those.
The ones that I use isdefinitely going to be Adobe
Lightroom and I think that it isI can't remember which one is
like 10 bucks a month and whichone's like I don't know.
I have Photoshop and Lightroomand I edit primarily in
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Lightroom.
Photoshop is kind of like mytweaks, like going in and
helping out skin issues or anydetail work I kind of do in
Photoshop.
So I think it is great to haveboth.
I used to solely edit inPhotoshop and I had an action
that would like do the samething for each photo, but you
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couldn't see each photo at atime.
So I definitely recommendLightroom, even for on the go, I
have mobile Lightroom.
Even for on the go, I havemobile Lightroom.
And the fun thing aboutLightroom is presets.
Oh, my goodness, I could gocrazy on some presets.
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Okay, so presets for those ofyou who don't know, these are
tweaks to all those adjustmentsthat are already done for you,
and then you just apply it tothe image and then tweak it how
you like it.
So the one thing that I willsay about presets is that just
because they look good on onephotographer's photos or on the
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photographer that's selling themor whatever, that is because
they have learned to shoot aparticular way that those
presets will flatter their image.
So I have so say that, like Ishot some photos like 10 years
ago and they're raw, they are um, they are still good quality
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photos, but maybe my shootingstyle has changed, maybe where I
position myself in relation tothe light has changed, and so if
I apply a preset to an oldphoto, sometimes it looks
terrible, and so it's not reallythe preset that is making your
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photo.
It's taking a great image thatwas already good, and then
you'll find that you apply onepreset and another and another,
and they all look good, and thenyou have trouble trying to
decide which one.
So, again, follow the steps tobecome a better photographer,
first with your camera settings,and then you get to do the fun
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stuff with the creative stuffand making that photo look like
your ultimate goal.
I have this final vision in mymind of what it's going to look
like.
If I want a certain feel, acertain mood, and colors will
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play into that.
Again, like I said, what yourclients are wearing or your
family is wearing will play intowhat the preset does Same with
light, same with the colorbouncing off walls.
So if somebody has like a bluenursery and you're editing with
a warm preset, that blue isgoing to now look warm.
It's not going to look like thesame blue it did in the nursery
when you were there, like inperson.
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So you have to be careful withthat Presets that I I love and
have purchased.
Let me just go through some ofmy ones.
Okay, um, trisha Victoriapresets.
Um, sherita Ray.
Um Tara Sweeney.
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I told you I am like addictedto presets.
Um, any idea of like your photocould look like something else.
I'm like Ooh, maybe, maybe Iwant to try it out, maybe I want
to see if my photo looks likethat?
Um, heck, yeah, presets, gpresets those are so good.
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What else do I love?
There's a new one, um,archipelago palago I can't
remember how to say those.
Those are great.
Um, I feel like I'm saying thatwrong.
Um, there's one more, somebodywith a P, they'll um.
Let me look at my phone realquick.
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I save all my the presets thatI like, okay, and then you buy
them and they could be like.
They could be like 20 bucks forlike iPhone ones to install, or
they could be like a hundredbucks for whatever ones, or they
could be more than that.
Um, so don't get stuck onbuying like the perfect preset,
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because you can always tweak itand again you're gonna have to
look at your before image andmake sure that it qualifies to
be edited in a certain preset.
Okay, phil Chester presets thatis one that comes up a lot and
I'm like, oh, oh, I like that, Ilike that, and um, so I can
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really go down the rabbit holeand spend too much money on
presets.
Um, so pick out one that youlove and you love, like the work
and that's what you would like.
Aspire to have photos that looklike, because, again, they're,
they're sharing a mood they'resharing like do you want to be a
realistic portrait photographerwith no editing?
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Do you want to just focus onhow natural can you make it look
?
Do you love headshots?
Do you love studio work and doyou love like school portrait
photos?
Or do you want to add likeemotion and connection and a
feeling and you want to add somenostalgia to it?
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Then you're looking atcompletely different presets and
editing styles.
So you kind of have to come upwith, like, what do you want to
look like as a photographer andmake sure that your shooting and
your editing aligns, okay.
So once you go into Lightroom sosay you have Lightroom and on
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your desktop or your mobilethey're going to have similar
features.
On my Lightroom mobile I don'thave all my presets that I have
on my computer.
I don't think I have it syncedbecause I'm using Lightroom
Classic on my computer and thenI have Lightroom CC, I think, on
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my phone and I don't reallylike the mix, because one houses
my iPhone photos and edits andmy computer one houses those
edits and okay.
So if you look at your tab,your panel on the right side, if
you have it set up um todevelop, I think, is my mode.
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Okay, so you have your whitebalance and we talked about this
in the iPhone sliders.
But if you're shooting in raw,this is where it's going to not
mess with your photo as much.
When you do these sliders,because you're shooting with a
really big image and you are,you have everything in the
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picture available to you thatwas actually there.
I don't know why that is, butit may not make sense, um, but
anyways.
So the sliders, you can adjustthese here, the the temperature.
You're pulling it cooler, goingto the blue side, and so if you
are shooting in um, this againthis depends on your light.
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So if you are shooting in avery, uh, stark white room, you
may want to add some warmth tothat by going towards the yellow
side.
Or if you are in a really cooltoned room, like a blue room,
then, um, maybe you want to addin some warmth.
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Or if you are um on a reallywarm sunny day and you need to
add some blue back in, then youcan go towards the left Um, or
if you want it to look lessabout the color, then I always
try to like take some of theyellow out.
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It just depends where you'reshooting the tint, you're either
adding green or you're addingmagenta to it, and these are
things you would tweak even ifyou have a preset, so you can
start from scratch and slide thesliders, or you can start with
a preset and then slide thesliders.
Exposure we talked about thatBrightening or darkening an
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image.
Contrast I have been pullingmine down because I really love
that like film kind of look.
So I've pulled mine down tolike negative 21, maybe less.
I pull my highlights down, Ipull my shadows up, my whites
down, my blacks up.
But again, you can make thesego the opposite way and have a
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really high contrast photo.
Um, texture is going to be howmuch texture is available in the
photo.
So if you're shooting people, Idon't think you want that
texture up really because thatis going to emphasize people's
skin and we don't really likethat.
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So same thing with clarity.
That's going to add somesharpness to your image.
I wouldn't bring that reallyhigh.
I bring that kind of down.
I bring that um kind of down.
Um, the texture and claritywould be great for like a
landscape, like a crisplandscape photo or something
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that has like texture that youwant to show off um in the photo
, like, maybe you're doing likeproduct photos or maybe you
really want like an old hand andyou really want it to look old
in the photo, then maybe youwould add some texture and some
clarity to that Dehaze.
That is like on a bright, sunny, golden hour day you are going
to crank that baby up and thatwill save your image from being
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completely blown out by the sun.
Vibrance again that I think isjust adding more yellowy, bluish
, I don't know, just vibranceSaturation, that is, you're
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going to add more pop to yourcolors.
And then you have this tonecurve, and so this is what I've
seen most of my presets um messwith, and so it is very hard, in
my opinion, to learn.
So on that one you would kindof have to.
I think you like could watch avideo more on that tone curve.
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But on mine it is like you arebringing up the, the shadow or
the colors.
Um, you've got the red one, thegreen one, the blue one, and um
mixing with that can add indifferent colors to your shadows
and different colors to yourhighlights and your mid-tones,
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and so that can make your photolook completely different by
adjusting those.
Okay, so then you can go downto color grading.
This is where you can add alsosome colors to your highlights
or your mid-tones or yourshadows, and so, um, if you want
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to add like more warmth to yourshadows, then you would go down
to the shadows and add, justkind of move the dot towards,
like the yellow or the red, andthen you would have more warmth
in those dark areas of yourphoto.
And then the light areas.
Some photographers I've noticeddo like a cyan kind of like
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blue, or, um, maybe like a mintykind of blue to their
highlights.
That I love.
It looks like nostalgic andfilm.
Or you can make the highlightsbe warm with adding orange, and
same thing with the mid-tones.
All right, then you can go into,like, your sharpening and
de-sharpening.
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Um, I have my sharpening atabout 24, my radius one, my
detail at 25, okay, and then youhave I don't really mess with
anything else.
Anything else, um, yep, so oh,and then grain.
So then I mess with the grain.
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I have been loving lots ofgrain, so I have mine about 50
in the amount, 50 in the size,50 in the roughness.
Okay, all that to say that thisyear, or like last year, I
started messing with.
Okay, let me pre-say before Isay it, before I say what I'm
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gonna say.
I love editing and I love seeingwhat it looks like before and
taking the image from thethought in my head all the way
to the finished product.
And I love sharing images rightaway after the session because
I want people to feel like, ohmy goodness, she did get
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something good, even if theirkids were crazy.
Okay, so, with that said, Iwould never think about handing
my editing off to someone else.
I don't want my photos to besomewhere else and then get them
back in a week all edited.
What if I have tweaks?
What if I hate the editing?
What if I want to send thosephotos back, like real quick?
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And I have no way to do thatbecause the photos are in
someone.
So I would never outsourceediting.
But recently, with AI, they havetwo forefront apps that are AI
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editors that learn your editingstyle by reading the metadata
from your images and seeing andanalyzing what you've tweaked in
the past, what the photo lookslike now, and then you can train
it to keep updating your stylewith adding more and more photos
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that you edit.
So the more you feed it, themore it memorizes your style and
then it gets really good atediting all your stuff.
So it will do the exposure.
It will.
It will even crop your imageand straighten it, which I'll
talk about that in a second.
Okay, so it will do all thethings.
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Those are the sliders.
You can also crop your image bymaking it um.
You know, if you just shoot offa little bit, I am the worst at
getting a straight image, andso I always have to straighten
my image, and so you can do that.
Or you can crop into a detail.
You can make it, um, like oneof those mid shot photos If you
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forgot to take one.
You can make it a close-up shotif you forgot to take one of
those.
You can even duplicate a photoand make one cropped and one the
full size.
That gives you some flexibilityto play with.
Then you have your remove tooland your healing brush and clone
stamp.
These are going to removelittle things in the room, and
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the remove thing has gotten sogood.
I do it with the use genergenerative AI and it will take
out like a stool that was in thephoto that I forgot to move, or
it will take out um, like Idon't know, like skin blemishes,
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like certain things inLightroom I can do here now
instead of pulling it over toPhotoshop, because if that can
stay, save me one less step,then awesome.
Okay, so you can use thesedifferent tools.
They all kind of do the samething.
You're removing something, um,and just depending on what area
of your photo you want to remove, then you can try out different
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things, but you can.
You can try out differentthings, but you can.
You can do the healing brush andthat kind of just like picks up
, like another place nearby, tofill it back in with um, and the
same thing with the clone stamp.
But the remove tool is the onethat has like the generative ai
that will fill it back in withwhat it thinks your photo would
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have looked like without thatthere, um, if that makes sense.
So when I took out the stool,it still put the hardwood floors
back the right way and um thewall.
And that was amazing, because Idon't know how many times in
Photoshop I have tried to remakewood floor and the lines are
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just so hard to copy with theclone stamp and put back on and
straighten, and so the fact thatthat just did it for me it was
like, wow, okay, and then youhave like a red eye tool.
If you have red eyes, mainly ifyou're using flash, I mean
maybe only if you're using flashwill you get a red eye, so
those can help take out have redeyes mainly if you're using
flash.
I mean, maybe only if you'reusing flash will you get a red
eye, so those can help take outthe red eyes.
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And then the best thing is themasks.
So this is beyond basic editing, but there is your masking
tools and so you can select.
Now so much stuff you canselect a subject like, and it
will pick the family or the skyIf you have a blown out sky and
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need to help that, or maybe youwant to emphasize, emphasize the
sunset, or it will notice thebackground and make that a mask.
If you want to make thatbrighter or darker or try to
play with the bokeh and make itblurrier, um, then it goes even
more detailed with people's eyesand skin, and not just the eye,
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but like the eye pupil, you canmake it sharper or make the
whites whiter of the eye, or youcan add teeth whitening.
So a lot of times if I'm takingout different colors, then the
teeth look duller, so I add insome like teeth whitening to
help balance out what I did withthe coloring.
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That's another level of editing,but it is so amazing the things
that you can do with your masksand that it automatically finds
like the teeth so, and you cancopy it to every other photo.
So, basically, you set all yoursettings up the way you like
them and then you can copy andpaste them to all your photos
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photos so you can save whateveryou've done as a custom preset
or like, if you've even tweakedanother preset, you can save it
as like a custom new one.
Um, you can kind of mergethings together and then save it
as a new preset and then, um,like, maybe you bought one, but
you need it to look more warmtone, so you add some more
warmth, and then you need it tohave more grain, so you can add
more grain, and then you cansave it as a new preset and then
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you can apply that to any photothat you're importing.
So that is so amazing and youcan change the raw ones over and
over and over again.
So that is really exciting.
For that, all right.
So playing around with AI isreally exciting, for that.
All right.
So playing around with AI, Istarted with Imagine and then I
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switched over to Aftershoot.
So what I loved about Imaginewas the interface was so easy,
it was so easy to navigate, itwas easy to train the AI.
You can even buy AI presetsthrough Imagine or through
Aftershoot and buy anotherphotographer's AI presets, and
so, basically, what this does itwill take.
So Aftershoot will call, whichmeans pick the best photos that
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you took and you can put allthese parameters on which ones,
like how many, or if you wantthem to take out all the blurry
photos, or all the ones with theeyes closed, which obviously,
like some I'm trying tointentionally make blurry, and
some of the ones I they're justlooking down, and so I'm like,
okay, I still want their eyesclosed.
Um, so you can go through andcheck all the things that
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they've you know said was best,and once you have your favorites
, then it will edit all of them.
And the main thing that Ireally love is it never gets it
perfect.
So I've been training it.
I think I got so I didn'timagine for a couple months
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maybe, and then I didn't reallywant to switch.
But I heard anotherphotographer talking about after
shoot, and so I tried that one.
Or imagine AI was you had topay per photo, I think, and so,
like, you start off paying likea monthly thing and then if you
go over it, then you have to payper photo, which I constantly
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went over.
So then I was paying like amonthly thing and then if you go
over it, then you have to payper photo, which I constantly
went over.
So then I was paying like a lotand then after shoot, you pay
one monthly fee and you can editunlimited amounts.
So I thought that that would bea better deal for me.
And then they ended up givinglike if you paid like for a
whole year, like in advance,then you got even a bigger
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discount.
So that's what I ended up doingis I prepaid for a year of AI
editing and that means like eachnew um version they come out
with, I can update that, and anynew features that they come out
with I can update that as well.
So they like just came out withor not just, but they came out
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with a um that I can make itmask already, like something in
the photo that I know I want toum adjust in Lightroom later, so
it could already come with themask for skin, um, the subject
skin.
If I was doing a newborn shootbut I don't edit my newborn skin
in Lightroom, but if I did thenI could have the skin already
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masked and ready for me toadjust once it comes into
Lightroom.
So once you have everythingedited, or it does it first of
all in like three minutes orless, edits everything you could
put in so many photos.
It will edit less than threeminutes and so and call picking
out the favorites.
So I love that, and then itspits it out to a folder.
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I bring the folder intoLightroom and then I adjust it
and apply some more things orlike tweak some more things,
because sometimes, um, it's notexactly what I was going for,
but it cut the time like in halfat least, sometimes way more,
depending on, like, how manyangles I shot, how many
different rooms of light I shotin, if I was indoor, outdoor,
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and I'm flip-flopping, um.
So I can only hope that it willget better and get to know me
better.
The only thing I hate is whenyou're trying to train it.
The other program, the ImagineOne.
You could imagine AI, whateverit's called.
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You could just click a buttonon the folder and say like
resubmit or something, and thatwas so easy.
Now it's like I don't even knowwhat I'm doing.
I don't even know if it'sactually training it.
Um, I mean, I think so, butlike now, when you go into, like
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when you view your profilefirst, first of all you can only
get like one, one editing style, so it's not like you can
upload all your presets, you getone, and I mean you can pay
more to get more.
But then it says like improvefurther.
And then it gives like allthese, like libraries of
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catalogs, and I'm like I don'tknow all that.
So I just try to wing it andsee what happens, but I'm not
100% I know what that is.
So I feel like the theinterface of it is not as easy
for me as imagining.
I'm gonna I'm better look thatup and see what that one is
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called.
Imagine, okay, just imagine.
Um, I am a G-E-N-A-I, so I willlink that in case you're
interested in looking at ahelper for your editing, which I
wasn't into at first, but ithas taken time off my plates and
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now I get to focus more onshooting, content creation,
talking to you guys, education,some more things that I love,
and I still get to see the finalresult so quick and I have the
control over it still.
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So that's what I like.
I like having control over it,I like to do the images quickly
and I like to have my time back.
So I definitely suggest, if youare a photographer that shoots
a good bit and it so you haveyour editing techniques on your
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phone, the overall gist ofediting in Lightroom and taking
it a step further with presets,and then, ultimately, the
assistant of AI to help youfurther with editing.
All right, so this is been allyour how to start photography
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course and um, I will be puttingtogether that mini course with
video to go along with thispodcast and make it all visually
make sense to you, and nextweek we will wrap up and be
starting a new series withphotography.
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So let me know who you are, whyyou like listening, what you
want to learn, anything likethat so I can really tailor this
podcast to help my listeners.
So thank you for being here andI hope that this has encouraged
you to go make better photos.
All right, see you guys later.
Bye.
Hey, mama, whether or not you're trying out your
camera for the very first timeor you've been doing this a
while and just looking for somecreative inspiration, I've got
all that and more.
I'm here to help you see yourworld differently, challenge you
creatively and find yourpassion for photography.
Welcome back to Better PhotosPodcast.
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How have you guys been doingwith your challenges?
Last week we talked aboutcreative shots and I am going to
make such a great resource.
I'm going to take ourcomposition podcast and our
creative shots and I will have ashot list for your phone so
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that you can download it.
And every session you can makeit like a checklist of getting
each shot.
So, whether it is framing orleading lines or a GIF or um
movements and getting blur, itwill all be in a list form that
you can download to your phone.
So check the show notes thatwill be coming out this week.
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So this week I have had somemommy and me studio sessions and
I brought my client closetthere and this was a new studio.
It was in Concord, new to me.
It's been around for otherphotographers, um, and it has
the perfect lighting, theperfect beige platform
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background that I love with this, like cute fireplace and, um,
like fake fireplace thing.
Um, and then this perfect, likenude blush wall, and so I had a
couple of moms meet me thereand with their kiddos, and we
got some of the most adorablephotos, um, so I just posted
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those on my Instagram at be poshphoto um for you to check out,
and I will hopefully be doingmore as we get closer to
Mother's Day and things likethat.
But it's nice to have somethingto do in the winter when it is
unpredictable with the weather.
You can always schedule aninside shoot so that you don't
have to cancel or reschedule.
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So that's what I love aboutindoors.
I also love being able tomanipulate the light a little
bit more, and it's definitelyhelpful in a studio that they've
already put um, some uh filterthings on the windows so that
you can get some of that goodlight, that filtered light, um,
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and so that is what I like, um.
Also, what else do we havecoming up?
Superbowl is tonight, soobviously I'm recording this
podcast the day before it comesout, but I've learned last week
I recorded it the morning of,and that was just too much.
So here I am recording thiswhile everyone else is watching
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the Super Bowl.
But we had the cutestValentine's Day slash
Galentine's Day party today formy girls and their friends and
their moms and we got all thislike jewelry making stuff and we
got charm all these differentcharms and everyone brought some
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charms.
Then I bought these necklacesoff Amazon and so they all got
to decorate their own charmnecklace.
I love that because it's so fun.
It gets to show theirpersonality and things they like
.
Then I got this vintage heartcake because obviously I needed
one of those from WildflowerBakery in Charlotte and it was
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just a fun time.
So I made a board on my Amazonstorefront that is Galentine's
and it has like all the stuffthat I got for the party in
there.
So I will link that in the shownotes in case you're hosting
something.
It was really fun, it would begreat.
I'm going to do it again formom's night.
So for today we're mostly goingto talk about basic edits
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talking about our white balance,your temperature, your tint
adjustments, exposure contrast,your highlights, shadows, whites
, blacks and saturation,vibrance and a couple other more
advanced editing skills and theapps that you can download for
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free, the ones that I use, andthen some fun things to just
excite you about your editingprocesses, so let's dive in.
This is the point.
If you haven't realized alreadywhy it's hard to be a
photographer by hobby, why it'shard to be a photographer by
hobby, once you start gettinginto these things the cost of
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equipment and the cost that youwill pay for apps and for more
involved features, and you'llget hooked on presets you'll
just start realizing that it isa very expensive hobby.
So if you're like me, I startedkind of like hobby and then I
was like, oh, my goodness, thisstuff costs so much, so let me
start charging um for somethings and start making money to
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pay for this um hobby.
So then it grew and then youhave to pay taxes.
So, yeah, all right.
So creative editing or justediting in general, let's talk
about that.
Okay, so you have some featureson your iPhone if you are taking
pictures like that.
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So if you went into your iPhonephotos and you clicked on the
little sliders at the bottom,you would see adjust, and so the
first one is going to be likean auto adjust and then you're
going to get a plus and minusfor exposure, which means that
you are going to kind of like onyour camera when you are doing
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the exposure there.
This is just going to happenafter and making your image
brighter or darker.
That's probably one of thethings that I'll mess with.
But you don't want to go toomuch because you're going to get
.
It just is not that great on aphone.
The highlights obviously you'reputting more whites or taking
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down some of the whites whereit's like so bright and white
and you don't want it to be.
It looks a little like off onyour photos.
You can pull that down.
You can add some more pops ofwhite with that.
The shadows you can bring upthe shadows a bit and you can
also bring them down if you wanta more contrasted image.
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So if you're looking at aspectrum of shadows and
highlights and you pull theshadows down and the highlights
up, you're going to have a veryhigh contrast image, which most
people it's not very flattering,so I think most people don't
love a high contrast image.
Again, then you'll have just aregular contrast and so this
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makes your photo not very like.
Anything you're adjusting,you're affecting the quality of
the image, especially in youriPhone editing.
So I try not to mess too muchwith iPhone editing in the photo
app again, so you can adjustyour saturation, how much color
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you want to pop.
You can pull it down and makeit more like old timey films, I
guess, or like those old timeyphotos when they add like sepia
later.
Vibrance is just going to behow I don't even know how to say
it maybe how like yellow-ish isbeing added to your colors to
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make them brighter and bolder,but in a yellowy kind of way, um
warmth you're going to beadding.
If you add warmth, you're goingto be adding like a yellows and
oranges to your image or go theopposite and take those out.
The next one is um tint.
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So that is going to be yourpurples and blues and greens and
sliding that.
And then you have sharpness,which never take a blurry photo
and adds sharpness.
It's not gonna help the blur.
A lot of the stuff that you wantto edit.
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It should be perfected in yourcamera first and then, and then
tweaked a little bit with um,your edit or with your um
adjustments.
Okay so, and then there's noisenoise reduction If you again
are shooting in a dark room witha um with your ISO bumped up
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super high and you may have somenoise um, or if you're in a
dark room on your phone and thenthat has some noise.
Um, so that are.
Those are some key things thatyou can do on your phone without
an app, all right.
So if you are going to get anapp, here are some
recommendations for um yourphone, all right.
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The first these are some freeones.
I don't use the free onesbecause I already pay for
Lightroom so that I can edit myraw photos and more megabytes.
So I have to edit on mycomputer so that I have, like,
enough RAM, enough memory,enough I don't even know what
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it's called but enough stuff tomake sure that it can handle all
of my photos.
I put all of my photos on aexternal hard drive so that it
can work faster.
And if something happened to mycomputer, it's on external hard
drive so that it can workfaster.
And if something happened to mycomputer, it's on the hard
drive, and I normally back themup to two hard drives.
Sometimes I put them on thecloud just to be extra careful.
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So photo apps that weresuggested is Snapseed came up a
lot.
Um, this is for iOS and Android.
Um, it is a complete andprofessional photo editor
developed by Google, offering awide range of tools and filters.
Okay, so that is one.
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You can also try Pixlr, p I, x,l R that is a web-based program
and iOS and Android, and now ithas AI features.
There's also PhotopeaP-H-O-T-O-P-E-A Photopea.
It's free as well, and itoffers advanced features similar
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to Photoshop, including supportfor Adobe file formats.
And then there is Canva, andthat has some things that you
can do, but, again, I'm nottrying to import all my photos
to Canva or on my phone.
Okay, so those are some freeones.
I'm not sure I don't have thosedownloaded on my phone.
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I don't really use those.
The ones that I use isdefinitely going to be Adobe
Lightroom and I think that it isI can't remember which one is
like 10 bucks a month and whichone's like I don't know.
I have Photoshop and Lightroomand I edit primarily in
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Lightroom.
Photoshop is kind of like mytweaks, like going in and
helping out skin issues or anydetail work I kind of do in
Photoshop.
So I think it is great to haveboth.
I used to solely edit inPhotoshop and I had an action
that would like do the samething for each photo, but you
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couldn't see each photo at atime.
So I definitely recommendLightroom, even for on the go, I
have mobile Lightroom.
Even for on the go, I havemobile Lightroom.
And the fun thing aboutLightroom is presets.
Oh, my goodness, I could gocrazy on some presets.
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Okay, so presets for those ofyou who don't know, these are
tweaks to all those adjustmentsthat are already done for you,
and then you just apply it tothe image and then tweak it how
you like it.
So the one thing that I willsay about presets is that just
because they look good on onephotographer's photos or on the
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photographer that's selling themor whatever, that is because
they have learned to shoot aparticular way that those
presets will flatter their image.
So I have so say that, like Ishot some photos like 10 years
ago and they're raw, they are um, they are still good quality
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photos, but maybe my shootingstyle has changed, maybe where I
position myself in relation tothe light has changed, and so if
I apply a preset to an oldphoto, sometimes it looks
terrible, and so it's not reallythe preset that is making your
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photo.
It's taking a great image thatwas already good, and then
you'll find that you apply onepreset and another and another,
and they all look good, and thenyou have trouble trying to
decide which one.
So, again, follow the steps tobecome a better photographer,
first with your camera settings,and then you get to do the fun
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stuff with the creative stuffand making that photo look like
your ultimate goal.
I have this final vision in mymind of what it's going to look
like.
If I want a certain feel, acertain mood, and colors will
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play into that.
Again, like I said, what yourclients are wearing or your
family is wearing will play intowhat the preset does Same with
light, same with the colorbouncing off walls.
So if somebody has like a bluenursery and you're editing with
a warm preset, that blue isgoing to now look warm.
It's not going to look like thesame blue it did in the nursery
when you were there, like inperson.
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So you have to be careful withthat Presets that I I love and
have purchased.
Let me just go through some ofmy ones.
Okay, um, trisha Victoriapresets.
Um, sherita Ray.
Um Tara Sweeney.
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I told you I am like addictedto presets.
Um, any idea of like your photocould look like something else.
I'm like Ooh, maybe, maybe Iwant to try it out, maybe I want
to see if my photo looks likethat?
Um, heck, yeah, presets, gpresets those are so good.
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What else do I love?
There's a new one, um,archipelago palago I can't
remember how to say those.
Those are great.
Um, I feel like I'm saying thatwrong.
Um, there's one more, somebodywith a P, they'll um.
Let me look at my phone realquick.
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I save all my the presets thatI like, okay, and then you buy
them and they could be like.
They could be like 20 bucks forlike iPhone ones to install, or
they could be like a hundredbucks for whatever ones, or they
could be more than that.
Um, so don't get stuck onbuying like the perfect preset,
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because you can always tweak itand again you're gonna have to
look at your before image andmake sure that it qualifies to
be edited in a certain preset.
Okay, phil Chester presets thatis one that comes up a lot and
I'm like, oh, oh, I like that, Ilike that, and um, so I can
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really go down the rabbit holeand spend too much money on
presets.
Um, so pick out one that youlove and you love, like the work
and that's what you would like.
Aspire to have photos that looklike, because, again, they're,
they're sharing a mood they'resharing like do you want to be a
realistic portrait photographerwith no editing?
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Do you want to just focus onhow natural can you make it look
?
Do you love headshots?
Do you love studio work and doyou love like school portrait
photos?
Or do you want to add likeemotion and connection and a
feeling and you want to add somenostalgia to it?
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Then you're looking atcompletely different presets and
editing styles.
So you kind of have to come upwith, like, what do you want to
look like as a photographer andmake sure that your shooting and
your editing aligns, okay.
So once you go into Lightroom sosay you have Lightroom and on
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your desktop or your mobilethey're going to have similar
features.
On my Lightroom mobile I don'thave all my presets that I have
on my computer.
I don't think I have it syncedbecause I'm using Lightroom
Classic on my computer and thenI have Lightroom CC, I think, on
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my phone and I don't reallylike the mix, because one houses
my iPhone photos and edits andmy computer one houses those
edits and okay.
So if you look at your tab,your panel on the right side, if
you have it set up um todevelop, I think, is my mode.
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Okay, so you have your whitebalance and we talked about this
in the iPhone sliders.
But if you're shooting in raw,this is where it's going to not
mess with your photo as much.
When you do these sliders,because you're shooting with a
really big image and you are,you have everything in the
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picture available to you thatwas actually there.
I don't know why that is, butit may not make sense, um, but
anyways.
So the sliders, you can adjustthese here, the the temperature.
You're pulling it cooler, goingto the blue side, and so if you
are shooting in um, this againthis depends on your light.
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So if you are shooting in avery, uh, stark white room, you
may want to add some warmth tothat by going towards the yellow
side.
Or if you are in a really cooltoned room, like a blue room,
then, um, maybe you want to addin some warmth.
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Or if you are um on a reallywarm sunny day and you need to
add some blue back in, then youcan go towards the left Um, or
if you want it to look lessabout the color, then I always
try to like take some of theyellow out.
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It just depends where you'reshooting the tint, you're either
adding green or you're addingmagenta to it, and these are
things you would tweak even ifyou have a preset, so you can
start from scratch and slide thesliders, or you can start with
a preset and then slide thesliders.
Exposure we talked about thatBrightening or darkening an
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image.
Contrast I have been pullingmine down because I really love
that like film kind of look.
So I've pulled mine down tolike negative 21, maybe less.
I pull my highlights down, Ipull my shadows up, my whites
down, my blacks up.
But again, you can make thesego the opposite way and have a
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really high contrast photo.
Um, texture is going to be howmuch texture is available in the
photo.
So if you're shooting people, Idon't think you want that
texture up really because thatis going to emphasize people's
skin and we don't really likethat.
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So same thing with clarity.
That's going to add somesharpness to your image.
I wouldn't bring that reallyhigh.
I bring that kind of down.
I bring that um kind of down.
Um, the texture and claritywould be great for like a
landscape, like a crisplandscape photo or something
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that has like texture that youwant to show off um in the photo
, like, maybe you're doing likeproduct photos or maybe you
really want like an old hand andyou really want it to look old
in the photo, then maybe youwould add some texture and some
clarity to that Dehaze.
That is like on a bright, sunny, golden hour day you are going
to crank that baby up and thatwill save your image from being
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completely blown out by the sun.
Vibrance again that I think isjust adding more yellowy, bluish
, I don't know, just vibranceSaturation, that is, you're
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going to add more pop to yourcolors.
And then you have this tonecurve, and so this is what I've
seen most of my presets um messwith, and so it is very hard, in
my opinion, to learn.
So on that one you would kindof have to.
I think you like could watch avideo more on that tone curve.
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But on mine it is like you arebringing up the, the shadow or
the colors.
Um, you've got the red one, thegreen one, the blue one, and um
mixing with that can add indifferent colors to your shadows
and different colors to yourhighlights and your mid-tones,
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and so that can make your photolook completely different by
adjusting those.
Okay, so then you can go downto color grading.
This is where you can add alsosome colors to your highlights
or your mid-tones or yourshadows, and so, um, if you want
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to add like more warmth to yourshadows, then you would go down
to the shadows and add, justkind of move the dot towards,
like the yellow or the red, andthen you would have more warmth
in those dark areas of yourphoto.
And then the light areas.
Some photographers I've noticeddo like a cyan kind of like
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blue, or, um, maybe like a mintykind of blue to their
highlights.
That I love.
It looks like nostalgic andfilm.
Or you can make the highlightsbe warm with adding orange, and
same thing with the mid-tones.
All right, then you can go into,like, your sharpening and
de-sharpening.
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Um, I have my sharpening atabout 24, my radius one, my
detail at 25, okay, and then youhave I don't really mess with
anything else.
Anything else, um, yep, so oh,and then grain.
So then I mess with the grain.
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I have been loving lots ofgrain, so I have mine about 50
in the amount, 50 in the size,50 in the roughness.
Okay, all that to say that thisyear, or like last year, I
started messing with.
Okay, let me pre-say before Isay it, before I say what I'm
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gonna say.
I love editing and I love seeingwhat it looks like before and
taking the image from thethought in my head all the way
to the finished product.
And I love sharing images rightaway after the session because
I want people to feel like, ohmy goodness, she did get
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something good, even if theirkids were crazy.
Okay, so, with that said, Iwould never think about handing
my editing off to someone else.
I don't want my photos to besomewhere else and then get them
back in a week all edited.
What if I have tweaks?
What if I hate the editing?
What if I want to send thosephotos back, like real quick?
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And I have no way to do thatbecause the photos are in
someone.
So I would never outsourceediting.
But recently, with AI, they havetwo forefront apps that are AI
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editors that learn your editingstyle by reading the metadata
from your images and seeing andanalyzing what you've tweaked in
the past, what the photo lookslike now, and then you can train
it to keep updating your stylewith adding more and more photos
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that you edit.
So the more you feed it, themore it memorizes your style and
then it gets really good atediting all your stuff.
So it will do the exposure.
It will.
It will even crop your imageand straighten it, which I'll
talk about that in a second.
Okay, so it will do all thethings.
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Those are the sliders.
You can also crop your image bymaking it um.
You know, if you just shoot offa little bit, I am the worst at
getting a straight image, andso I always have to straighten
my image, and so you can do that.
Or you can crop into a detail.
You can make it, um, like oneof those mid shot photos If you
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forgot to take one.
You can make it a close-up shotif you forgot to take one of
those.
You can even duplicate a photoand make one cropped and one the
full size.
That gives you some flexibilityto play with.
Then you have your remove tooland your healing brush and clone
stamp.
These are going to removelittle things in the room, and
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the remove thing has gotten sogood.
I do it with the use genergenerative AI and it will take
out like a stool that was in thephoto that I forgot to move, or
it will take out um, like Idon't know, like skin blemishes,
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like certain things inLightroom I can do here now
instead of pulling it over toPhotoshop, because if that can
stay, save me one less step,then awesome.
Okay, so you can use thesedifferent tools.
They all kind of do the samething.
You're removing something, um,and just depending on what area
of your photo you want to remove, then you can try out different
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things, but you can.
You can try out differentthings, but you can.
You can do the healing brush andthat kind of just like picks up
, like another place nearby, tofill it back in with um, and the
same thing with the clone stamp.
But the remove tool is the onethat has like the generative ai
that will fill it back in withwhat it thinks your photo would
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have looked like without thatthere, um, if that makes sense.
So when I took out the stool,it still put the hardwood floors
back the right way and um thewall.
And that was amazing, because Idon't know how many times in
Photoshop I have tried to remakewood floor and the lines are
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just so hard to copy with theclone stamp and put back on and
straighten, and so the fact thatthat just did it for me it was
like, wow, okay, and then youhave like a red eye tool.
If you have red eyes, mainly ifyou're using flash, I mean
maybe only if you're using flashwill you get a red eye, so
those can help take out have redeyes mainly if you're using
flash.
I mean, maybe only if you'reusing flash will you get a red
eye, so those can help take outthe red eyes.
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And then the best thing is themasks.
So this is beyond basic editing, but there is your masking
tools and so you can select.
Now so much stuff you canselect a subject like, and it
will pick the family or the skyIf you have a blown out sky and
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need to help that, or maybe youwant to emphasize, emphasize the
sunset, or it will notice thebackground and make that a mask.
If you want to make thatbrighter or darker or try to
play with the bokeh and make itblurrier, um, then it goes even
more detailed with people's eyesand skin, and not just the eye,
(30:23):
but like the eye pupil, you canmake it sharper or make the
whites whiter of the eye, or youcan add teeth whitening.
So a lot of times if I'm takingout different colors, then the
teeth look duller, so I add insome like teeth whitening to
help balance out what I did withthe coloring.
(30:43):
That's another level of editing,but it is so amazing the things
that you can do with your masksand that it automatically finds
like the teeth so, and you cancopy it to every other photo.
So, basically, you set all yoursettings up the way you like
them and then you can copy andpaste them to all your photos
(31:12):
photos so you can save whateveryou've done as a custom preset
or like, if you've even tweakedanother preset, you can save it
as like a custom new one.
Um, you can kind of mergethings together and then save it
as a new preset and then, um,like, maybe you bought one, but
you need it to look more warmtone, so you add some more
warmth, and then you need it tohave more grain, so you can add
more grain, and then you cansave it as a new preset and then
(31:35):
you can apply that to any photothat you're importing.
So that is so amazing and youcan change the raw ones over and
over and over again.
So that is really exciting.
For that, all right.
So playing around with AI isreally exciting, for that.
All right.
So playing around with AI, Istarted with Imagine and then I
(32:02):
switched over to Aftershoot.
So what I loved about Imaginewas the interface was so easy,
it was so easy to navigate, itwas easy to train the AI.
You can even buy AI presetsthrough Imagine or through
Aftershoot and buy anotherphotographer's AI presets, and
so, basically, what this does itwill take.
So Aftershoot will call, whichmeans pick the best photos that
(32:25):
you took and you can put allthese parameters on which ones,
like how many, or if you wantthem to take out all the blurry
photos, or all the ones with theeyes closed, which obviously,
like some I'm trying tointentionally make blurry, and
some of the ones I they're justlooking down, and so I'm like,
okay, I still want their eyesclosed.
Um, so you can go through andcheck all the things that
(32:47):
they've you know said was best,and once you have your favorites
, then it will edit all of them.
And the main thing that Ireally love is it never gets it
perfect.
So I've been training it.
I think I got so I didn'timagine for a couple months
(33:07):
maybe, and then I didn't reallywant to switch.
But I heard anotherphotographer talking about after
shoot, and so I tried that one.
Or imagine AI was you had topay per photo, I think, and so,
like, you start off paying likea monthly thing and then if you
go over it, then you have to payper photo, which I constantly
(33:29):
went over.
So then I was paying like amonthly thing and then if you go
over it, then you have to payper photo, which I constantly
went over.
So then I was paying like a lotand then after shoot, you pay
one monthly fee and you can editunlimited amounts.
So I thought that that would bea better deal for me.
And then they ended up givinglike if you paid like for a
whole year, like in advance,then you got even a bigger
(33:50):
discount.
So that's what I ended up doingis I prepaid for a year of AI
editing and that means like eachnew um version they come out
with, I can update that, and anynew features that they come out
with I can update that as well.
So they like just came out withor not just, but they came out
(34:13):
with a um that I can make itmask already, like something in
the photo that I know I want toum adjust in Lightroom later, so
it could already come with themask for skin, um, the subject
skin.
If I was doing a newborn shootbut I don't edit my newborn skin
in Lightroom, but if I did thenI could have the skin already
(34:37):
masked and ready for me toadjust once it comes into
Lightroom.
So once you have everythingedited, or it does it first of
all in like three minutes orless, edits everything you could
put in so many photos.
It will edit less than threeminutes and so and call picking
out the favorites.
So I love that, and then itspits it out to a folder.
(35:01):
I bring the folder intoLightroom and then I adjust it
and apply some more things orlike tweak some more things,
because sometimes, um, it's notexactly what I was going for,
but it cut the time like in halfat least, sometimes way more,
depending on, like, how manyangles I shot, how many
different rooms of light I shotin, if I was indoor, outdoor,
(35:21):
and I'm flip-flopping, um.
So I can only hope that it willget better and get to know me
better.
The only thing I hate is whenyou're trying to train it.
The other program, the ImagineOne.
You could imagine AI, whateverit's called.
(35:42):
You could just click a buttonon the folder and say like
resubmit or something, and thatwas so easy.
Now it's like I don't even knowwhat I'm doing.
I don't even know if it'sactually training it.
Um, I mean, I think so, butlike now, when you go into, like
(36:03):
when you view your profilefirst, first of all you can only
get like one, one editing style, so it's not like you can
upload all your presets, you getone, and I mean you can pay
more to get more.
But then it says like improvefurther.
And then it gives like allthese, like libraries of
(36:23):
catalogs, and I'm like I don'tknow all that.
So I just try to wing it andsee what happens, but I'm not
100% I know what that is.
So I feel like the theinterface of it is not as easy
for me as imagining.
I'm gonna I'm better look thatup and see what that one is
(36:43):
called.
Imagine, okay, just imagine.
Um, I am a G-E-N-A-I, so I willlink that in case you're
interested in looking at ahelper for your editing, which I
wasn't into at first, but ithas taken time off my plates and
(37:06):
now I get to focus more onshooting, content creation,
talking to you guys, education,some more things that I love,
and I still get to see the finalresult so quick and I have the
control over it still.
(37:27):
So that's what I like.
I like having control over it,I like to do the images quickly
and I like to have my time back.
So I definitely suggest, if youare a photographer that shoots
a good bit and it so you haveyour editing techniques on your
(37:58):
phone, the overall gist ofediting in Lightroom and taking
it a step further with presets,and then, ultimately, the
assistant of AI to help youfurther with editing.
All right, so this is been allyour how to start photography
(38:24):
course and um, I will be puttingtogether that mini course with
video to go along with thispodcast and make it all visually
make sense to you, and nextweek we will wrap up and be
starting a new series withphotography.
(38:45):
So let me know who you are, whyyou like listening, what you
want to learn, anything likethat so I can really tailor this
podcast to help my listeners.
So thank you for being here andI hope that this has encouraged
you to go make better photos.
All right, see you guys later.
Bye.
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