Optimizing images automatically

- [Instructor] The first Adobe Sensei feature you'll learn in this chapter is the auto setting, which will use AI to analyze your image and then apply non-destructive settings to it in order to optimize its appearance. I'll be using Adobe Lightroom CC to teach you all the Sensei features in this chapter, but know that these features are also available if you're using Lightroom Classic. Now, to start this exercise I would like to create a new album first, just to make it easier for us to keep control over the various images you'll be using in this chapter. So I'm going to go ahead and click the plus icon here, and then choose Create Album. I'll just go ahead and call this one Auto settings, and then choose Create to get going. Now, once this album has been created, I'll just go ahead and click Auto settings and then click Add photos. From here, I'll navigate to the folder 03-AI in Lightroom, 03-01-auto, and then I'm going to go ahead and select all four images, and then choose Review for Import. Once you're there, simply click Add 4 Photos to continue. Now, these four images look very, very similar, and I took these on a boat trip in Thailand. Now I need to optimize all four images in this series, but to do this, I'll be using the auto setting option. I'm going to go ahead and select the second image in this series, and then double click it to open it up in full screen. And then I'm going to go ahead and click this icon to open up the Edit settings. From here, all I have through to get going is just click the Auto button. I'll choose Auto, and what I see now is that the image has been optimized for me. So this means the exposure has been slightly altered, the contrast is different, the highlights were lowered, the shadows were increased, et cetera. If you scroll down, you'll see that there's also a slight increase here in the Saturation and the Vibrance settings, which is exactly what auto does. It will look at the original image, and it'll then optimize the image accordingly. And it'll do this by changing the Light and the Color categories. What the auto setting will not do is apply various, let's say, more subjective type of settings, like Texture effects or Dehaze or Vignetting, for example, or changing its details like sharpening or removing noise from images. Now, the thing is that it is important to realize that these specific settings here in the Light and Color settings using the Auto button were all chosen based on the original image, which means if I were to run the same Auto button on this image, which is slightly different, or this image, for example, these settings will vary just a little bit, because Lightroom is going to individually analyze the images, and then change these settings accordingly. Now, I personally love clicking the Auto button whenever I start a new project here in Lightroom. So, in order to accomplish this, I could potentially pick the first image in the album and then click Auto. And then click the second image in the album and then click Auto and then keep going. However, that is going to be way too time consuming. So what you can do is from any view here inside of Lightroom, simply click the image you want, hold on the shift key, and then click the last image in the series to select all of them, right click, and then choose Apply Auto Settings to, in this case, 4 Photos. Now Lightroom is going to go ahead and analyze these images and then apply these settings here as well. Now, if I select the very last image, look at these settings. I'm going to go ahead and click another image, and look at the settings. Look what happens. So you can see these images have a slightly altered state, because even though they look very, very similar, minor differences still occurred by using the auto settings. Now, one last thing I would like to apply here in the series is that I would like to show you how to easily copy and paste settings from one image to the other. For example, imagine I take the very last image in the series, scroll all the way down, and apply a setting that was not covered by the Auto button. For example, Dehaze. I'll just go ahead and I'll apply a Dehaze effect. Let's just say I'm going to stop here. Let's say somewhere around 40 or something. If you want to reapply this one setting that Auto did not cover for you, you can just go ahead and copy and paste that. Now, to make that happen, simply click the ellipsis icon here, which is the three dots, and then click Choose Edit Settings to Copy. From here, you can choose which of these settings you would like to copy to the clipboard and then paste onto other images. Now, by default, everything's always selected. So what you can do is simply click here and then choose None to de-select everything, and then go here inside of the Effects category, and then just click Dehaze to only select and copy the Dehaze settings. I'll just go ahead and click Copy, and I'm going to go ahead and select this image, hold down the shift key and select the other image. I'm going to go ahead and hit the paste command so I'm going to press Command v on the keyboard on Mac or Control v on Windows. I'm going to go ahead and paste those settings. And now I have these images here that look very, very similar.