Develop module: Global edits Part 1 - Lightroom Mobile Tutorial

In this video, we're going to talk about the develop area of Lightroom Mobile. Within my LinkedIn Today's Work, I'm going to go ahead and tap on one image here of my Snow Queen. And we have some icons over here on the left. This first one that you see with the circles and the horizontal lines is going to be our develop module. And this has a few different boxes in it. So we'll start with our edit up here. If you want to do any auto settings, you can go ahead and tap that and it's going to give you an auto suggestion of what it thinks the edits should look like. I'm going to go ahead and choose the back button, the step back button, so that we can just be working with a baseline image. Next, we have our profile section. So if we go ahead and browse within our profiles, you'll see we have a section for favorites, for basic, for artistic, for black and white and modern and vintage as well. The nice thing about any of these folders as you expand them is that they're going to give you a preview of what that color profile is going to look like. I'm going to hit the back button so that we can continue on, because these are the areas that I think are most helpful for you as the user. We've got our light section that is going to encompass our exposure, contrast, our highlight slider. It's going to adjust our highlights, our shadows, bringing up our shadows or bringing them down. And you can see as I double tap any of the words here on the left, you'll be able to reset that slider and set it back to baseline. So I can see my slider for shadows is at negative five, but if I double tap the word shadows, it brings me back to zero and double tap the word contrast it'll bring me back to zero as well. So that's going to be our light section. Very important. All of your first edits that you do are always going to take place within this light category. Then we can come into color. And if we look here, we have our warmth of our image. I'm going to double tap that again, our tint. So going from magenta to green and then we have our vibrance and saturation. The difference between vibrance and saturation is saturation will affect skin tones and vibrance will not. It will add or subtract saturation from everything but the skin tone. So if we go ahead and add 100% vibrance, you can see the skin tones are still left and protected against oversaturation. But if we take the saturation up, you can see how the skin tones tend to get overly orange in that kind of thing. Now, within this color panel, you have two secondary flyout sections and those are going to be for our hue saturation and lightness HSL. On mobile it's called color mix and then color grading as well. So if we come into our color mix, you see that we do have a different area for each of our colors. Now you can tap on them and independently adjust them so we can take the hue of our aquas. So we do have a lot of aqua in this image and we can change the hue and maybe change the saturation and the lightness and darkness. Now you can see that on the right hand portion of our image. Okay. So I guess most of these are going to fall within the blue spectrum instead of the aqua. So I'll double tap hue saturation and lightness to reset them all and I'll tap over into my blue and then we'll adjust. So much more of an adjustment happens when we shift the hue of the blues instead of the hue of the aquas. So this is all the more reason why we use our targeted adjustment tool. And you'll see that right here it's this little tool right here. What I want to mention is that when you use this tool and we tap up and down, if you look over on the right, under the aqua and the blue, you can see that the initial area that we selected or that we tapped on was not just one color. It actually had two different colors in it. So as we do that and we shift the hue, it's actually shifting the hue of two different sliders instead of just one. A lot of times when we're looking at an image, our eyes may not be fine tuned enough to actually be able to call out a specific color that we're looking at. And just like I made a mistake thinking there was going to be a lot more aqua in this image than there was technically those colors, those pixels, laid in the blue category not the aqua category. This is why we use that targeted adjustment tool. Now you can use the targeted adjustment tool for the hue, for the saturation or the luminance, and it's going to allow you to make better adjustments because you're able to adjust more than one color at a time, which is very important. So what I want to do is I'm going to hit my back button, which is going to change the hue and the saturation. I'm just going to come in here. I've tapped off of the targeted adjustment tool and I'm previewing that my aquas and my blues are back to 000. The last sub area that I want to bring to your attention is going to be color grading. Now, the color grading is not going to be available for the free version of Lightroom Mobile. But I do want to just kind of do an overview of it slightly so we have different options. So color grading is ultimately applying a specific color to a brightness darkness value in your image. So if the pixel is designated as a shadow color or a darker value, it's going to get one color applied to it. If a pixel is designated as a highlight or a brighter brightness darkness value, it's going to apply a different color to those pixels. So let me show you what I mean. So we're going to apply a blue color to the shadows, and I'm going to tap right here on my highlight circle, and then we're going to apply a yellowish complementary color to my highlights. At the bottom of our screen we're going to have two sliders. We have a blending and a balance slider. If I pull the blending all the way down, it's going to mesh all those colors together. If I pull the blending all the way up, you can see it almost separates the colors a lot more. So there's the definitive line between which pixels get the yellow and which pixels get the blue. Now you can see this here in the image. The last slider that I want to bring up is the balance slider. Now this is going to apply where the tipping point is between does this pixel get blue or does it get yellow? As you change the balance slider to the left, more of your pixels get the blue applied to them. As you pull it to the right, more of the pixels get the yellow or the highlight color applied to them. Again, I'm just going to double click my blending and my balance and I'm going to reset this tool. So in order to reset the color that we applied or added to our highlights and our shadows, we can reset all of the color grading. It is hidden, though. It's going to be in the three dots menu right next to the word highlights or shadows, depending on or mid-tones, depending on where you are. So this little three dot menu right here, we're going to reset all and that's going to allow us to reset all of our color grading back to zero. All right. I'm going to X out my color grading area, and that is going to be the overview of the color section. Even though it takes up a teeny, tiny little amount of space on the right side of our screen, it is extremely powerful given the amount of tools that are in it.