Brilliant tutorial as always Mark. I have used your technique for darkening bright spots in the background on my images….. no more distractions!…. Excellent tip. Thanks 🙏
Hi Mark, Nice video again. Small tip from my side 🤪 when you select the color picker and keep it pressed down, you can drag it to a part in the photo and it will select that color. Might make it easier to match colors of the background. Greetings, Richard
Thank you for your excellent videos. I am relatively new to Lightroom and the Mac operating system and you are infinitely helpful in my learning journey.
Thank you Mark, so far I was struggling to edit photos i photoshop, since it was found to be difficult to remember layers ,adjustment layer, masking etc due age factor. but after watching your videos on LRC, I find it much easier to deal with. Thanks once again. Could you come up with a section on Basic panel editing sometime, please. Looking forward.
Thanks so much for the comment! I appreciate the kind words. I’ll definitely consider doing a more basic tutorial discussing each of the Lightroom panels in more detail.
Nice video, it's not being long time for me since starting wildlife photography, and you just shared some really useful informations I was looking for! Great use of mask overall! Beautiful image 😍
Really great tutorial, I just have one question: how exactly do you find the button "intersect" (which you've shown while adding dark parts and light parks to the subject)? Is there some kind of shortcut key for that?
great video and learn so much from you. I want to learn how to blur out the background during a busy background. At times the animal looks good but unfortunately the background is just to distracting or busy. I have seen images on instagram where they make the animal basically a portrait. They somehow blur the background with a busy background and they add like a nice color to it like cool blue or warm color. Love this video and saved it to come back to try out.
Thanks so much for watching! It’s tricky to blur out the background, but I might make a video about that because I’ve been asked that question a few times.
Hey Mark, Great tutorials they are brillant! I have a question about subtracting a mask. When I use the brish tool I sometimes accidentally remove areas (edges) I which to stay masked. Is there a settings that allows to removal of parts of the mask while protecting the areas you which to remain?
Hi, thanks so much for watching the tutorials 😊 when you subtract from a mask using a brush, whatever you paint will be subtracted, and there is no way to protect areas from being painted on.
The biggest issue I have is that when my edit looks exactly how I want on my macbook pro... I send it to my phone (samsung s22) the colours and blacks/highlights appear different. It never looks as good as my macbook when I view them on my phone. Extremely frustrating. How do you deal with this?
Unfortunately we have no control over how the phone manufacturers calibrate their colours. Make sure to export as an sRGB jpg and check it on your phone. Might help if you’re exporting in another colour profile like Adobe RGB.
@@MarkDumbleton so make sure my export is sRGB ye? thank you for this, I will try it. it makes me wonder how I can show my edits to anyone at all where it appears for them, how I,ve actually edited the tones etc. Great channel
Thanks for the compliment about the channel. On my iPhone the colours aren’t exactly the same as my MacBook, but it’s close. Also, what model MacBook do you have? The recent ones (no more than 2-3 years old) come very well calibrated and I when I calibrated it to check it, hardly anything changed. So the MacBook screens are super accurate.
@@MarkDumbleton Have the 2019 MacBook Pro, bought it when it first came out. Even considered changing to iPhone just to see if there was improvement but it makes it awkward for my workflow
Hi Carol, my advice would be to try lower contrast in those spots if you are struggling g, sometimes that can work better than brightening or darkening something. Try that and see how it goes.
@@Tallermage I would mask just the bird, add just a tiny blend of dehaze, contrast and saturation. Not a ton, just enough to make the bird pop out instead of blending in the the background.
Controlling "hot spots" in background and use of intersect for light fall & shadows was a good take away. Thank you Mark...
Thanks for watching and glad you found some value in it 😊
Great job mate ❤
Cheers mate! I appreciate that.
Brilliant tutorial as always Mark. I have used your technique for darkening bright spots in the background on my images….. no more distractions!…. Excellent tip. Thanks 🙏
Thanks for watching Bryan, and glad to hear you’ve used some techniques on your images 😊
Your videos keep getting better. Love your use of radial filters on the BG. Thanks for sharing bud.
Thanks so much Kobus! Means a lot 👍🏻
masterful, very good. thank you
I appreciate that a lot, thanks for watching 😊
Thank you so much for being so generous in sharing some techniques. Something that other people would normally charge to share.
My pleasure, thanks so much for the comment and for watching.
Another cracking piece of editing Mark. Thanks for sharing
Thanks so much Nigel!
Love your editing style, magnific video.
Thanks so much, hope you found some value in the edit 👍🏻
Thanks for this brilliant video. Without doubt the most useful editing video I’ve seen.
Hey Jeremy, thanks so much for the kind words, hope you found some value in it 😊
Radial gradient to tame hot spots is a great idea. Thanks.
Glad you found that trick useful, thanks so much for watching!
Brilliant ! Just found your channel, been using Lightroom for years and just learned loads more !
Happy to hear that, thanks so much for the support!
Your're aweome Mark. Always learn so much from every video. Thank you for all your great work. 🤟
I really appreciate that 🙌🏻 thanks so much!
I am speechless. Amazing skill. How on earth did you figure this out?
Thanks so much @edwardcollins3560 - I figured it all out through experimenting in Lightroom for a long time!
This is brilliant! I learned a lot!
Thanks so much for sharing that! Thanks for watching!
Excellent tutorial!!
Thanks so much Jerry. I appreciate the comment and thanks so much for watching!
Hi Mark,
Nice video again.
Small tip from my side 🤪 when you select the color picker and keep it pressed down, you can drag it to a part in the photo and it will select that color. Might make it easier to match colors of the background.
Greetings, Richard
Hey Richard, thanks for that tip. I did not know that 😊
Excellent as usual. Thank you 🙏
Thanks so much Peter. I really appreciate that!
Nicely done. Thank you.
Appreciate it a lot, thanks for watching!
Wow!!!!! el mejor flujo de trabajo, muy buena horientación!!!! Thk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Great tutorial, thank you!
A great pleasure, thanks so much for watching 😊
Thank you for your excellent videos. I am relatively new to Lightroom and the Mac operating system and you are infinitely helpful in my learning journey.
Thanks so much for the comment. Makes me happy to hear I’m helping you learn about the wonderful world of photography 😊
That’s a great video Mark! Learned a lot of new things.
Do you use the CPU for editing (in preferences tab) or is it turned off?
The radial mask is game changing!
Thanks for this.
Regards,
New subscriber.
It really is a great tool! Thanks for the sub 😊👍🏻
The most helpful tutorial I have found on TH-cam. Thanks Mark, you have a new subscriber. BIG fan.
That means a lot! Thank you so much! Plenty more to come!
wow. thank so you much what a beautiful photo you take
Thanks so much for the comment! Really appreciated! 😊
😄😄😄 Thank you for your sharing.
My pleasure, thanks so much for watching.
Thank you Mark, so far I was struggling to edit photos i photoshop, since it was found to be difficult to remember layers ,adjustment layer, masking etc due age factor. but after watching your videos on LRC, I find it much easier to deal with. Thanks once again. Could you come up with a section on Basic panel editing sometime, please. Looking forward.
Thanks so much for the comment! I appreciate the kind words. I’ll definitely consider doing a more basic tutorial discussing each of the Lightroom panels in more detail.
@@MarkDumbleton thank you Mark, have a good day
I love the effects applied. Just came across your channel and subscribed!
Thanks so much Cynthia! I appreciate the sub and thanks for watching 😊
Excellent.
Thanks so much for watching Martin!
That was excellent. Thanks. Will subscribe.
Thanks so much for the subscribe, and thanks for watching! 👍🏻
Nice video, it's not being long time for me since starting wildlife photography, and you just shared some really useful informations I was looking for! Great use of mask overall! Beautiful image 😍
I appreciate that a lot. Thanks for watching and hope you find some of the editing techniques helpful.
Great workflow, bro! More of these!
Thank you so much! Appreciate it! Plenty more to come.
Many thanks Mark for your great video
Please explain more about cropping images that is one of my big problems in editing images.
Thanks so much for the comment. I do have a video about cropping, but will put more emphasis on cropping in future tutorials.
Really great tutorial, I just have one question: how exactly do you find the button "intersect" (which you've shown while adding dark parts and light parks to the subject)?
Is there some kind of shortcut key for that?
Thanks so much for watching. Simply hold down the alt button, and you’ll see the add and subtract buttons disappear and intersect will be available.
Excellent ! 👍👍
Thanks so much for watching! 👍🏻
Excellent LR edit tricks!! Great video. By the way, what kind of bird it is? Southern carmine bee-eater (Merops nubicoides)? Thanks!!
Thanks so much! Yes, it’s a Southern Carmine Bee-Eater. I took this in Botswana on the Okavango River.
Good stuff!
Thank you so much!
great video and learn so much from you. I want to learn how to blur out the background during a busy background. At times the animal looks good but unfortunately the background is just to distracting or busy. I have seen images on instagram where they make the animal basically a portrait. They somehow blur the background with a busy background and they add like a nice color to it like cool blue or warm color. Love this video and saved it to come back to try out.
Thanks so much for watching! It’s tricky to blur out the background, but I might make a video about that because I’ve been asked that question a few times.
Nice editing. Would really like a "before and after" view of the edit at the end.
Thanks so much Anton. I’ve been asked that a few times, and all new videos will have the before / after at the end 😊
Hey Mark, Great tutorials they are brillant! I have a question about subtracting a mask. When I use the brish tool I sometimes accidentally remove areas (edges) I which to stay masked. Is there a settings that allows to removal of parts of the mask while protecting the areas you which to remain?
Hi, thanks so much for watching the tutorials 😊 when you subtract from a mask using a brush, whatever you paint will be subtracted, and there is no way to protect areas from being painted on.
Good teaching
Thank you 😊
Which laptop you will used please tell me
I use a MacBook Pro, excellent for editing.
@@MarkDumbleton thanks for the reply
The biggest issue I have is that when my edit looks exactly how I want on my macbook pro... I send it to my phone (samsung s22) the colours and blacks/highlights appear different. It never looks as good as my macbook when I view them on my phone. Extremely frustrating. How do you deal with this?
Unfortunately we have no control over how the phone manufacturers calibrate their colours. Make sure to export as an sRGB jpg and check it on your phone. Might help if you’re exporting in another colour profile like Adobe RGB.
@@MarkDumbleton so make sure my export is sRGB ye? thank you for this, I will try it. it makes me wonder how I can show my edits to anyone at all where it appears for them, how I,ve actually edited the tones etc. Great channel
Thanks for the compliment about the channel. On my iPhone the colours aren’t exactly the same as my MacBook, but it’s close. Also, what model MacBook do you have? The recent ones (no more than 2-3 years old) come very well calibrated and I when I calibrated it to check it, hardly anything changed. So the MacBook screens are super accurate.
@@MarkDumbleton Have the 2019 MacBook Pro, bought it when it first came out. Even considered changing to iPhone just to see if there was improvement but it makes it awkward for my workflow
Mark I have always struggled getting "Rid of Bright Spots " in my images..... they always look false.... and too dark...... I am going to try again.
Hi Carol, my advice would be to try lower contrast in those spots if you are struggling g, sometimes that can work better than brightening or darkening something. Try that and see how it goes.
Thanks Mark .... am going to try now@@MarkDumbleton
On 5:00 amazing skills
Appreciate it a lot. Thanks for the comment 😊👍🏻
How in the hell did you figure all of this out? Fantastic edit btw.
Haha just through A LOT of experimenting and messing around with different editing styles. Thanks for the comment 😊
спасибо)
Thanks so much for watching!
It's a good edit but I my opinion it still looks flat.
Thank you for the comment!
How would you fix that? I'm genuinely curious
@@Tallermage I would mask just the bird, add just a tiny blend of dehaze, contrast and saturation. Not a ton, just enough to make the bird pop out instead of blending in the the background.
The background Looks very distracting and awful, the bird with a gradient background would be excellent, cheers
Thanks for the comment. Can you please explain what you mean by a gradient background?
Still not looking good
Thanks for the comment. Do you have any suggestions to improve it?
@MarkDumbleton thanks for the reply. I am not expert one, but it looks dull to me even after your effort.