Assignment: Lightroom Advanced Edits
Objective:
To explore the advanced features in Lightroom Mobile beyond the Light panel. This assignment focuses on helping you understand how profiles, presets, geometry, masking, and retouching can transform your photographs and enhance your artistic vision. You’ll edit six images and provide a description of your editing decisions for each.
Assignment Steps:
Step 1: Capture
1 - Choose Your Subjects:
Select a variety of subjects to photograph. This might include landscapes, portraits, architecture, or still life.
2 - Experiment with Composition:
Think about lines, shapes, and framing. Capture images that give you room to enhance them in post-processing.
Step 2: Import and Organize
1.Import your images into Lightroom Mobile.
2.Create a new album to keep your project organized.
Step 3: Workflow for Editing Each Image
1 - Start with Profiles and Presets:
-Begin with the Profiles tool. Experiment with different profiles (e.g., Adobe Landscape, Portrait, or Artistic) to find one that sets the mood. Be sure to explore the Adaptive profiles.
-If a profile feels limiting, move to Presets. Choose one that enhances the overall tone and feel of your image but allows for further refinements.
2 - Adjust the Light Panel:
-Fine-tune exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks.
-Consider how these adjustments direct the viewer’s eye and balance the composition.
3 - Explore Geometry:
-Use the Geometry tool to fix perspective issues. Straighten horizons or align architectural lines.
-Remember: Vertical and horizontal lines should guide the viewer naturally through the image.
4 - Use Masking for Precision:
-Add Linear or Radial Masks to enhance specific areas (e.g., brighten a subject or darken distracting elements).
-Experiment with AI-powered masks like Select Subject or Sky for precise control.
5 - Retouching for Refinement:
-Use the Healing tool to remove distractions like dust spots or unwanted objects.
-Aim for subtlety to ensure natural-looking results.
6 - Final Touches:
-Adjust the Color panel to refine white balance, saturation, and color grading.
-Consider how color impacts mood and enhances your artistic intent.
-Use the Effects panel for texture, clarity, and vignetting to finalize the image.
Reminders:
- Not every tool needs to be used on every image.
- The goal is to use the tools that best express your artistic vision.
- Editing should enhance your image and help communicate mood, story, or emotion.
Step 4: Describe Your Edits
For each of your six images:
1.Describe the Tools Used:
- Specify which tools you used and why (e.g., “I used a linear mask to darken the foreground to draw attention to the subject.”).
2.Explain Your Intent:
- Discuss how the edits align with your artistic vision (e.g., “I enhanced the shadows to create a moody atmosphere.”).
3.Reflect on the Viewer’s Experience:
- Share how you think your edits affect the mood or concept of the image.
Learn – Explore – Practice – Refine
Exploring the many learning apps and websites available for Lightroom Mobile opens up a world of ideas, inspiration, and techniques you may not have known existed. By dedicating time to these resources, you’ll discover new looks and creative methods to enhance your editing skills. Spend some time browsing through tutorials, either within the app or on websites, and find a couple that catch your eye. Follow along step by step, experiment with the techniques, and make notes about the tools and adjustments you used. Be sure to jot down where you found the tutorial so you can revisit it later and reproduce a look you loved. This process of learning, exploring, practicing, and refining will not only build your technical skills but also expand your creative vision.
You will find the Community tab directly within the Lightroom Mobile app on your mobile device, making it easy to explore user-shared content, before-and-after edits, and creative inspiration. However, to access the Learn section, you’ll need to use Lightroom on your computer. Once in the desktop app, click on the Cloud icon at the top, and you’ll find the Learn tab located at the top of the left-hand module. From there, you can explore interactive tutorials, curated lessons, and other educational resources to help you master Lightroom’s features.
Getting Started with Lightroom on a Mobile Device
https://www.adobe.com/learn/lightroom-cc/web/lightroom-mobile
Lightroom Academy:
https://lightroom.adobe.com/academy
Photoshop Café – Colin Smith – Free and paid
https://photoshopcafe.com/free-tutorials/
Matt K – Free and paid
https://mattk.com/tutorials/
Julieanne Kost’s Blog – Lightroom Mobile and Web Video Tutorials
https://jkost.com/blog/lightroom-mobile-video-tutorials
Submit:
-Submit six edited images demonstrating advanced features in Lightroom Mobile. Each image must include at least one advanced feature beyond the Light Panel, with a different feature explored in each image.
-Edit six images using unique advanced tools in Lightroom Mobile, such as profiles and presets, geometry corrections, masking (e.g., Select Subject, Sky, or Gradient Masks), retouching with the Healing tool, color grading, or effects like texture, clarity, or vignetting. Avoid repeating the same feature on multiple images.
-To submit, create a shared link to your images in Lightroom Mobile. Tap Share & Invite for your album or project. Enable Anyone Can View under sharing options. Adjust link settings to turn on Show Metadata, Show Location, and Allow JPG Downloads. Copy the generated URL and submit it via Canvas.
This assignment is designed to help you explore Lightroom Mobile’s advanced features while developing your skills in applying these tools creatively and effectively.