Lightroom Wildlife Editing Using LOCAL ADJUSTMENTS and MASKS

Lightroom wildlife editing can be tricky at the best of times especially when it comes to local adjustments. Lightroom has just released a new updates toolset and Janine is going to explain her top ten ways she likes to use these tools in her wildlife editing workflow.
Adobe Lightroom is our preferred editing suite and this video is in conjunction with Janine's Free Adobe Lightroom Course which you can find here: www.academy.pangolinphoto.com/
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Timestamps:
00:10 Adobe Lightroom Update 11
01:30 How to use the new adjustment tools
02:30 Automatic masking in Lightroom
03:50 Masking Tools
04:30 The Luminance Range
05:50 Free Adobe LIghtroom Course for beginners
06:10 Top 10 Uses for Local adjustment masks
06:30 Clarity Texture and sharpness
06:50 Noise Reduction
08:55 Adjusting the vignette
09:40 Toning down hotspots
10:16 Matching Shadows and Highlights
10:54 Making your Rim Light Visible
11:32 High key and Low Key Clean Up
12:13 Enhancing the highlights
13:12 Enhancing the Eyes in wildlife images
14:30 Review your Lightroom Wildlife Editing Process
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[@jameshoward9700]

This has helped so much - technically and er, philosophically! One of the best LR tutorials out there. So helpful for photographers/editors at all levels!

[@christinelundvall3097]

Am a better photographer after every video I watch from the wonderful Pangolin photo hosts!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thank you Christine.

[@rrrosecarbinela]

Thank you. I have learned much from your videos.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Great stuff.

[@dustinroberts5826]

Newest bucket list item is to go on Safari with Pangolin- this channel is great

[@boatman222345]

Excellent, as always!

[@marie-pauleschaijes3106]

Great thank you Janine !

[@jzcrossan]

Fantastic !!

[@dp_devaprakash]

Thanks Janine & Pangolin team for these lovely tips and tricks. Kudos to you guys. 🤩🥰😘

[@PangolinWildlife]

thanks Deva - cheers Janine

[@stephenfannin6000]

Very nice instruction.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks so much Stephen - really appreciate your feedback

[@joncothranphotography9375]

Thanks, Janine! We appreciate your insights and ideas!

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks Jon for the great feedback - cheers Janine

[@CZOV]

Lovely and brilliant as always.

[@robertwhitemoto]

Thank you Janine! Love the new Lightroom tools. It has helped my workflow tremendously.

[@PangolinWildlife]

It makes things so much quicker - despite my initial hesitation I am hooked on it now

[@joejames4231]

Great video Janine, all your tutorials are just great 👍

[@skipperone1]

Thanks , very useful .

[@PangolinWildlife]

Hi Sergio, very glad it is helpful - cheers Janine

[@ghislainedenul4693]

Thank you Janine for this excellent tutorial😀

[@PangolinWildlife]

You’re welcome 😊 we miss you here

[@keithmacdonald4805]

Outstanding, thanks very much!!

[@PangolinWildlife]

So glad it is helpful and useful to you Keith - cheers Janine

[@nancyross2897]

Thanks Janine…. These top 10 tips are amazing !

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks so much Nancy - I am glad it helped

[@jimowens8105]

Thank you Janine for another informative post. With the latest releases of Lightroom Classic the use of the "masks" have become very powerful. The use of Lightroom as a raw editor has it's limitations. However, it is all that is needed for 90% of my work. This is good because it takes me as long to complete 1 image in Photoshop as it does to complete 9 images in Lightroom. In addition, photoshop and other pixel editors output files other than the original raw file and add time, complexity and the duplication of files to the export/import processes.
Awesome table! BTW.

[@PangolinWildlife]

You pretty much summed it up... while it has its limitations I don't think we need much more either - and on top of it you can always use photoshop as a secondary editor... cheers Janine

[@NikCan66]

Thank you yet again for this video and continued success

[@PangolinWildlife]

thanks so much

[@garybrenner2801]

Thanks so much Janine, very informative! This is the first of your videos I've seen & I love it! I just subscribed & am looking forward to more videos!

[@PangolinWildlife]

thanks so much for your subscription - have fun browsing our channel - cheers Janine

[@petergottschling2597]

Thank you Janine, I have also figured out how to deemphasise the background but have never been comfortable with gradient masks. I will now try those to make the abrupt changes more realistic.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Yes, it makes a big difference to smooth things out a bit - cheers Janine

[@garyleavens8661]

Thanks, great video and very helpful suggestions.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks Gary - glad it is helpful - cheers Janine

[@pmetselaar5356]

Bedankt, heel goed en duidelijk te vlogen voor iedereen😃

[@PangolinWildlife]

thanks a lot

[@timdriman4253]

Hi J anine: What a great video and instructional lesson in editing..... When I saw the Masking took innovation, I was excited, but the more I use it, especially in combination with brushes etc, it took my work to another level.
Great work, and big hugs to all you guys. Take care and be safe out there...😊

[@PangolinWildlife]

Yes, I was very hesitant at first but it is actually amazing - cheers

[@orionorion2405]

Perfect !

[@PangolinWildlife]

Glad it was useful - cheers Janine

[@tiaoat2013]

Great video. Thank you.

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks for your feedback Tia, cheers Janine

[@kathleenwilmington6518]

I really have to thank you, Janine, and all of Pangolin for your wonderful videos. New to Lightroom, your beginner's course really has helped me get started. I have found one situation that I'm unsure of how to handle, though. Sometimes I have an image for which I'd like to use more than one editing approach, and would like to be able to save the editing history for each separately. I've also found that sometimes I may edit an image up to a point and then want to take it in 2 varying directions from that same point to create different effects that I may want to return to for additional editing or exports. Do you have any recommendations?

[@nomadcom]

Hey Janine, hope you're all very well down under & thanks for your useful tips & tricks. I also enjoyed to see some very well known images. 😎😂

[@PangolinWildlife]

Yep... we miss you here Cedric... have you send some images in for our social media? I would love to see some

[@jsadiving]

Great video thanks

[@PangolinWildlife]

You are very welcome - glad it helps - cheers Janine

[@richardruda267]

Great samples Janine 🙂

[@PangolinWildlife]

Thanks a lot Richard

[@jimbird963]

I’m a National Geographic Yourshot photographer-I was thought to take your best shot an add very little editing as nationalgeographic will only accept these images. I don’t think I’ll ever get to this level of editing as I love the challenge of taking a great shot.

[@PangolinWildlife]

That should be the goal of every photographer.... but as you must know very well... nature is often rather uncooperative irrespective of the photographic skills. This was just a tutorial to show people what can be done... but I command your discipline and goal. cheers Janine

[@sharlenecathro1368]

Hi Janine, please can you help, I see that you do most of your editing on laptops, what sort of calibration do you use or is there an angle of the screen that you know is calibrated. I tend to edit then the next day look at it and re edit as it is dark or too contrasty.

[@patmcneil2386]

Voice and mouth were off on my iPad. If you can fix the timing will be beneficial for it is a really good video.
Thanks

[@PangolinWildlife]

Sorry about that - i never detached the audio from the imaging...so I am not sure what happened there

[@mikechapman1280]

Thanks for another very helpful video, would you be able to do a tutorial on editing for a high quality print ? ........please

[@PangolinWildlife]

Hi Mike, that is very individual based on each printer and screen so a very difficult tutorial to make - cheers Janine

[@martyforseth2366]

Janine, are demonstrating in Lightroom CC or Classic?, Thanks, Marty

[@PangolinWildlife]

Hey Marty, this is in Classic - Bridge has updated equivalently ... cheers

[@Mr09260]

Thanks Janine but I still cant get my Pics from my hard Drive to Light Room >> goes straight to Camera RAW then to Photoshp when opening after preliminary RAW conversion stuff in Camera RAW?? I need a Private Teacher just for 2 hours to sort all this out once Covid is Gone

[@PangolinWildlife]

Hi Peter, Camera Raw is connected straight to photoshop... you would have to use Lightroom for your organisation and prelminary RAW conversion. Maybe check out my tutorial that is for free on lightroom? cheers Janine

[@DACnew]

Thanks Janine, really useful. Previously I’ve been doing masking / brushes etc in PhotoShop - it looks like you are using mostly Lightroom; which parts of the workflow do you still do in PhotoShop? Thanks

[@PangolinWildlife]

Hey David, the dodging tool and if need be (only for prints / not for competitions) the healing brush is a lot more advanced in photoshop. If you need to do stacking for astro photography photoshop is great and if you need to get rid of artefacts from Topaz you can use it with different layers in photoshop. But generally I just don't have the time of the day to spare to go into so much depth... if a image cannot be edited in 5 min, I usually get rid of it. cheers Janine

[@houedakogbetounoudewhilde7866]

J'aime cette chaîne mais.. Mais la langue