Just a tip... You have better control of the photo, if you edit a color photograph to black and white, by clicking the B&W button in the Color Adjustments module instead of Black & White in the Basic module. Clicking the Basic one leaves you with a version in grayscale that only has black, white, and gray adjustment abilities. By clicking on the one in the Color Adjustments module, your picture is in black and white, but still retains the color info, allowing you to have control over black, white, grays, red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta sliders. For instance, on the lion picture, he could use the green slider and move it left to lessen the green info, making the background darker. Basically burning the background, while not affecting the oranges and yellows in the mane highlights. Using the Color Sliders in B&W mode of the Color Adjustments module almost acts like a tone specific dodging and burning tool. You can really change the dynamics of a picture by using those sliders. Give it a try.
Just to take it a step further, the ultimate B&W conversion is to go to HSL panel and set all the colours to destaturate. That way, you have full access to all the editing sliders, some of which are not available in the other two B&W conversion options. Just a 3rd option!!
I love that you have provided the RAW file for us to follow along. It makes a real difference and is especially useful as I'm using Darktable rather than Lightroom so need to use the Darktable equivalent modules and settings.
Very cool. Nice one Yuri! I love the way you demonstrate that an image can be what you want it to be. Nice tutorials whilst helping to expand our thinking and creative approach. Thanks!
Thanks Jonathan! I wanna get more into sharing my thoughts for a edit in my future videos, I think it'll be more interesting and informative to watch :)
A brilliant example of....NEVER throw old photos away if they are at least sharp enough to save, and of course in raw format... As you say..someday you stumble over it with a great idea and the ugly duckling becomes a swan..Thanks Yuri, you are a master of getting pictures from crappy to WOW. And that in less than 10 minutes !!
I have noticed that one of your first videos was editing this lion photo, and it´s amazing to see how much did you improved your lightroom skills. This helps me a lot. Thank you.
Gear question, which laptop are you using (at least for this video)? Looks like an Asus but I can't tell the model. Would you recommend it for amateur photo editing?
OMG I always thought "Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion" was just a movie but you have proved he is real and apparently living in retirement. And you fixed his lazy eye! LOL
Love your tutorials. Would you talk a little slower and slow down your movements when selecting the sliders in LR a bit so I can follow you on the video. Thank you again for all your wonderful help on using LR.
Download the RAW file for free and edit along and try stuff out yourself: drive.google.com/file/d/1_ZProhLj4Imt9F9CKOfKbt0NLW78tXHs/view
Just a tip... You have better control of the photo, if you edit a color photograph to black and white, by clicking the B&W button in the Color Adjustments module instead of Black & White in the Basic module.
Clicking the Basic one leaves you with a version in grayscale that only has black, white, and gray adjustment abilities.
By clicking on the one in the Color Adjustments module, your picture is in black and white, but still retains the color info, allowing you to have control over black, white, grays, red, orange, yellow, green, aqua, blue, purple, and magenta sliders.
For instance, on the lion picture, he could use the green slider and move it left to lessen the green info, making the background darker. Basically burning the background, while not affecting the oranges and yellows in the mane highlights.
Using the Color Sliders in B&W mode of the Color Adjustments module almost acts like a tone specific dodging and burning tool. You can really change the dynamics of a picture by using those sliders. Give it a try.
Just to take it a step further, the ultimate B&W conversion is to go to HSL panel and set all the colours to destaturate. That way, you have full access to all the editing sliders, some of which are not available in the other two B&W conversion options. Just a 3rd option!!
I love that you have provided the RAW file for us to follow along. It makes a real difference and is especially useful as I'm using Darktable rather than Lightroom so need to use the Darktable equivalent modules and settings.
Good example for experimenting, learning and getting unexpected good results. I like to do that. I am happy to find I am not the only one.
Very cool. Nice one Yuri! I love the way you demonstrate that an image can be what you want it to be. Nice tutorials whilst helping to expand our thinking and creative approach. Thanks!
Thanks Jonathan! I wanna get more into sharing my thoughts for a edit in my future videos, I think it'll be more interesting and informative to watch :)
Makes me want to swim into old photos!!! Great video!
Great video, love learning the new tricks you demonstrate, nice work,
A brilliant example of....NEVER throw old photos away if they are at least sharp enough to save, and of course in raw format... As you say..someday you stumble over it with a great idea and the ugly duckling becomes a swan..Thanks Yuri, you are a master of getting pictures from crappy to WOW. And that in less than 10 minutes !!
I have noticed that one of your first videos was editing this lion photo, and it´s amazing to see how much did you improved your lightroom skills. This helps me a lot. Thank you.
I always wanted to know how to do this with an image. Many thanks Yuri, well explained as always. Keep up the good work. Cheers!!
Nice and simple 👌 video. Thanks.
Very helpful. Thanks for taking the time and effort to compose your videos.
Gear question, which laptop are you using (at least for this video)? Looks like an Asus but I can't tell the model. Would you recommend it for amateur photo editing?
Yay you’re back!
Great tutorial Yuri! learnt some new tricks, thank you!
Wow, this was amazing. Thank you for sharing these fixes.
Amazing what you did with the eyes!
Thanks for this tutorial, love your videos I'm learning a lot, specially with those dedicated to night photography. Regards :)
Thank you for confirming what I already do with bland as plain oatmeal raw files.
Sorry the video quality very bad! Very useful to me .. but ....
very well done
You really saved that one! Thanks for sharing :)
great videos! Great editing skills!
OMG I always thought "Clarence, The Cross-Eyed Lion" was just a movie but you have proved he is real and apparently living in retirement. And you fixed his lazy eye! LOL
Another outstanding video. I need to bring my editing time down from an hour to 10 minutes!
I want a "Bear on Bike" t-shirt!
MJE think my average is about an hour too for a complex image
Yeah... how does Yuri do this in 10 minutes. I have a feeling there's a lot of behind-the-scenes editing before the camera is turned on!
Love your tutorials. Would you talk a little slower and slow down your movements when selecting the sliders in LR a bit so I can follow you on the video. Thank you again for all your wonderful help on using LR.
You can reduce the speed of the video in the setttings.
Good to see you.
Good to see you too :) I know you've been following for a long time!
Terrific job 👍
What on earth happened to the Lion's nose? It is just a pure black blob with no detail ???
bravo!!!!!!