Five New Features of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom v3 for Professional Photographers
This video tutorial is a quick overview of my five favorite new features in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3
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More videos to come on each of these, and dozens of other new features…..
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Hi David.
Thanks for the suggestions.I had another look at the images which have fallen into the ‘can’t correct the shadows’ and you are right, there are a whole lot of variables.Most however fall into the 24 mm focal length,a few at 40mm. Most are high contrast images.Maybe it has something to do with the way the light bounces around in the lens in this type of image!I tried using the vignetting tool as you suggest and it certainly makes some of them correctable if you then adjust the fill light and blacks sliders using the custom lens profile.
Hi David.
As far as I can work out it happens with the Canon 24-105 auto lens correction in some images and not all.If I take this off, the histogram moves back again to being correctly exposed in the shadows and highlights.If I then use the manual control for vignetting it does not seem to happen.I have to say, I like the function because at certain focal lengths this lens does show distortion and using this control appears to make the image look better.Maybe on the images affected the answer is to just use the manual control only or do it in Photoshop or as you suggest. Perhaps it is a focal length that doesn’t need the correction!!!
Dear Sheila,
Thanks for the additional info. I haven’t seen this trouble in my classes or in my own photography and I even own that lens! What happens if you use the profiled correction but bring the vignette reduction controls all the way down. I am curious if it that particular slider (or set of commands) that introduces the clipping? But it could just be a bug or perhaps it has something to do specifically with those particular images…. Too many variables for us to know for sure why this is happening to you.
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David Marx
Hi David.
Not sure where to put this question and hope this doesn’t sound too daft.
I have noticed with some images that when you apply the lens corrections in LR the histogram sometimes ends up being clipped after you have made adjustments in the develop module.Some of these are easily corrected with a few tweaks here and there but occasionally I get one where the clipping in the shadows on the left side remain clipped regardless ( the image didn’t start out with poor exposure).Is there a way around this other than not using the lens corrections at all which would be a shame or an order of adjustment which would be better for the image?
Dear Sheila,
I have not seen this problem with my images and it doesn’t make much sense to me that removing geometric distortion, chromatic aberration, or lens distortion would creating shadow clipping. Perhaps its a bug? I would be curious to know if happens when you do the corrections using the manual controls rather than the lens correction presets and / or if you get similar results when correcting the distortion using Photoshop. Bigger picture too, I would ask does the image really need the lens correction or are you just enamored with this cool programing trick?
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David Marx
Dear David,
This video is certainly up to your usual high standard and really interesting great.
I have not yet had time to fully check out the new features of LR3. but I’d appreciate your help with a small question ref Importing.
In LR2 it was possible, when using a date format with a forward slash [/], to add a file name after the slash while retaining the date info. All my LR2 imports are in the format – “12-25 Xmas Lunch”. Am I correct in that I can not set up my imports in LR3 the same way. It appears I can either have a date folder – “12-25” or into subfolder named “Xmas Lunch” but not both as in LR2? They will still go into the appropriate year folder.
I realize I can rename each folder after it is imported but that is one additional step. It is, I suppose, a matter of ‘old habits die hard’!
Sincerely,
Reg.
Dear Reg,
Sorry about the delay. Somehow I missed this question. The forward slash [/] is the symbol for a sub-folder. When Lightroom displays a folder date as 2011/07/22 it is trying to say that you are about to get a 2011 folder with a 07 sub-folder and inside of that will be a 22 sub-folder. [/] has a very different meaning from a dash [-]. Dashes do not indicate sub-folders.
If you want a sub-folder with a meaningful name, on import, in Lightroom 3 then you need turn on the “Into Sub-folder” choice at the top of the Destination tab. Type your folder name in the blank to the right. Using this technique you could mix dates and words without having to later rename each folder.
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David Marx
Great presentation on key points. I just upgraded to LR3 and really like the new enhancements!
Great work Dave! Thanks for showing us some great new features!
Tony
great job David, you simplify it for us. And Wow! I’ve been shooting for 40 years, began back in the days when kodachrome was the gold standard at 25ASA. Shooting on industrial and corporate locations required hauling 300lbs of lighting and rigging and 2 assistants and all morning to light one job. Now, just crank up the ASA and snap away. If any light is needed, you could get it from either a 100 watt bulb or an on camera flash. That feature alone is worth the price of admission. The other features are brilliant as well. LR3 is a must have for any pro!
Wow, you just blew me out of the water!
Just got Lightroom 3 a few days, but haven’t really played with it too much. Tonight I gotta spend some quality time this app.
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