3 Edit Multiple Photos Seamlessly - SCAI021

Hello and welcome back. In this section, we're going to show you how to batch edit photos in the same series. Basically, you can apply your adjustments on one image and then automatically have that update across images, even if you're using things like select subject and select background. So, here we are in Lightroom Classic. We're going to be taking a look at this series of photos. We've got four images here. There we go. And we're just going to start with our first image. So, let's double click there. Okay, I'm going to hit I for information, and we can see we're on lightroommasking03a.jpg. So, let's go ahead and adhere to our developed module, and we're going to start off using our mask. So, let's go into our mask. Again, you can use Shift-M for your masks. So, we're going to start off. We can see selected our person. It automatically finds your person looking really, really good. Now, in this case, it did miss this area here in the background. You can see if I hover over select person, it actually thinks that the background is part of that, but that's not a big deal. If I hover over select sky, select subject, and background, you can see I don't have a preview for those, but we're just going to start with select background and see what it does. So, select background. Ah, that actually worked really, really well. So, sometimes select background or select subject might work even better than select person. So, in this case, you can see I selected the background, and it actually knew to select that area between my subject. So, these algorithms are a little bit different with each of these, by the way. So, for instance, if I did my select background, and that worked really well, but I actually wanted the opposite, don't forget you can always click on invert, and then it's selecting the opposite of the background, which in this case is your subject. So, kind of cool, but in this case, we are just going to select the background. So, in this case, let's go ahead, and I'm going to bring our highlights down just a little bit with our background. Maybe bring our color temperature a little bit cooler. There we go, and bring a little green in there. There we go. Take our whites, bring that up a little bit, and I'm going to take my contrast down. Let's bring our exposure down just a little bit there as well. Keep in mind, I can turn this off and on at any point in time. So, I'm just kind of making it cooler a little bit, and a little bit less contrast in general back behind my subject. Okay, now let's go ahead and create a new mask here. We're going to go to select subject, and I want to work on the color of my subject a little bit. Let's hit O to hide that overlay. The color looks good, but it's a little bit too intense. So, we're just going to take our saturation where it says saturation here. Right now, it's just at zero. I'm just going to take that to the left just a tiny bit. There we go. That's looking a little bit better. I'm not, let's go minus 15. There we go. That's looking a little bit better. Let's bring our color temperature, if I go warmer or cooler, maybe, yeah, just a tiny bit cooler, and a little bit more towards green, just a little bit. There we go. That's looking good. So, there's the before and the after. You can see the colors were just a little bit too, like, vibrant before. The skin tones weren't looking very realistic. There we go. That's looking good. Now, with our subject, let's go ahead and take our shadow levels. We're just going to brighten those up. Let's just take our exposure and brighten those. I'm going to take our whites, and we're going to kind of bring those down a little bit. I'm trying to find the balance between our subject's skin and our subject's clothing, making sure everything looks good. All right, her skin's looking a little bit too magenta, so I'm just going to pull a little bit of green in that, too. All right, and again, helps to see the before and after, kind of see how everything is looking. I think it's looking really good. Now, let's go ahead and create a new mask. We're going to go to select people. Yep, we've got our person selected. We're not going to do the entire person. Let's go ahead and start off with the iris and pupil. Create the mask. It knows, in this case, to only find one. The other one's hidden by the flower. Pretty cool. Let's go ahead and bring our exposure up there. You don't want to go too crazy, or it's going to be too much of an effect. There we go. Let's create a new mask. Down to select people again. That's our person, and then we're going to go to face skin and body skin. Now, you're going to see this is an option we haven't talked about before. You can actually create two separate masks if you want to here in this dialog. If I wanted a mask for each one of these, I could do that, but in this case, I'm going to keep the face and the body skin together. Let's hit create mask, and it's just affecting our subject skin. You can see it did affect that flower. If I hit control or command plus a couple times, I can easily remove this flower. All I have to do is go to subtract here, and I'm going to go to my brush. We can try objects. Let's see how this does. There we go. The object selection tool is a new tool within this. In this case, it didn't really do what we wanted to. Let's go back to that. This object select works pretty well. We're going to show you in more advanced examples coming up soon. It works pretty well, but not perfect just yet. Let's try. We're just going to subtract. We'll go with our good old sturdy old brush tool. We know how that works. We're just going to subtract this. Let's bring our flow nice and high so we can just subtract out this flower. You can see these tools are really fantastic. They do a great job. If you do need to do any sort of updating and refining, you can always do those with these other tools like the brush tool. There we go. Fantastic. Now we can see the overlay is only visible on our subject. Let's go back to this mask, and now we can start editing it. I'm going to hit O for the overlay. There we go. Let's go ahead and take a look at our exposure. Now let's leave the exposure right where it was. Hit O for overlay. Start working with our contrast. Sometimes I don't always know exactly what would look the best, but sometimes I just go through these sliders and see where looks good. Do the highlights need to be a little bit brighter or darker? Do the shadows need to be a little bit darker? It's okay if you don't always know exactly what you want to edit because honestly, that's just kind of normal. Here you can adjust the hue. If the person didn't have a good white balance or whatever, you could do that there. Then your saturation of the skin. Let's bring that down just a tiny bit. All right. I think that's looking really, really good. Let's click on the slash key. There's our before and the after. Let's do one more mask, and we're going to go to a radial gradient. We're going to just click and drag here around that area. There we go. Let's go ahead and bring our exposure down. I'm going to invert that. Boom. It's only affecting the background. In this case, there we go. You can see it's affecting our subject's dress and stuff like that a little bit too. That's actually okay with me. I think we're looking pretty good. Let's create one more mask. We're going to go to a radial gradient. We're going to click and drag from the center, and we're going to make the exposure just a tiny bit brighter. There we go. That's looking really, really good. Let's turn this mask off. I'm going to click that slash key. There's a before and after. I'm super happy with this. Now, it doesn't have to be perfect. That's totally okay, but what we can do now is apply these settings across our entire set, which is like game changer. Let's hit G for our grid tool, and you can see, obviously, these pictures were taken in a series, so I want to be able to apply the same edits to all the images. We're going to start by clicking on the first image that we actually edited, and then hold shift and click on the rest of them. You can see the border around the first image is bright gray, and these are a little bit darker. This is our primary image, and then these are secondary selected. Now that these are all selected, again, I'm in my library module. We just want to go right over there at the bottom right where it says sync settings. Let's go ahead and hit sync settings. By default, it's going to ask me what I want to sync, and all of these things are going to be default checked. Now, in this case, pretty much all of my edits that I did were with masks. If I just click on masking, there we go, it's going to find all of these masks, and I'm going to hit synchronize, and it's actually going to update it. You can see it's taking AI settings, may take some time. There we go. It's doing all of my work for me. Now, let's go in one of these images. How nice is that, by the way? Let's go in one of these images and click on our develop module, and click on the mask, and I can see here where it did select subject. Let's go to overlay. It found the subject. It's not using the same masks from earlier. It's knowing to find the subject, and it finds the new subject in this and applies the same edits to this subject. Really, really beautiful adjustments that work across a variety of photos. Now, in this case, let's go in and create a new mask. I want to create a linear gradient, and we're just going to go from the right down like this. I just want maybe like a little bit of bright, a little bit of kind of color coming from that. Maybe bring our highlights down, but I just want like a little bit of color kind of coming from the right, like a light, you know. There we go. Maybe it's a little bit too green. Let's go. There we go. Shadows up a little bit higher. There we go. Let's make that visible and invisible. All right. That's looking pretty good. Now, I like it on the background. I don't really like it on my subject so much, so let's subtract out and go to select subject. There we go. So, let's take a look at that before and after. I think that's actually looking pretty nice. So, let's hit G for the grid tool, and then let's say I want to do that across the entire range. Again, because I have this image selected, the light grade tells me it's the primary selection. Hold shift and click on all these other ones. There we go. Fantastic. So, now I can hit sync settings, and I can add that new mask, and it's going to synchronize and add those. I can choose to merge them. Usually, you just want to hit replace though. So, I'm going to replace all the existing masks. It's going to go ahead and do this, and then recalibrate everything. It's going to add that. You can see that's being added to all these images. Now, in this case, this one, it added it. Okay, let's go back to develop and do our masks. It added it, which is looking really good, but it did not on the right-hand side, just like the other one, but you can see that light in this image is coming from the left. So, we can actually go to this linear gradient. I can hit H to hide or show, okay, and now what I can do is I can actually move that over to the left-hand side. So, I've got the same type of effect coming with my image. There we go. Beautiful, but I've just changed it to be on the left-hand side. Okay, this is on the right-hand side. Actually, I want it to be on the left-hand side in these other ones. So, I'm going to click on this one, shift click on this. Let's go to sync settings. Okay, synchronize it, hit replace, and it's going to just move that. You're going to see over here, boom, look at that. It moved it over there to the left-hand side. It did it on that one as well. So, I have a nice light coming, in this case, where it should be from the right-hand side. Perfect, from the right-hand side. In this case, it's coming from the left-hand side. Now, this is looking pretty good. I want to just double click on here, and her skin is just looking a little bit too like magenta and saturated. So, I'm going to hit this develop module. I think what we can do is actually solve that with color grading. So, let's go over here to our color grading. I want to go where it says my highlights, and we're just going to pull a little bit of color into our highlights. There we go, and let's just kind of pull this over towards yellow, maybe even a little bit green. I want to kind of cancel out the magenta that we had there. Okay, and pull in a little bit of shadows and see how we're looking there. Okay, that looks pretty nice. Now, I can just kind of take this and see our before and our after. That's looking pretty good. Let's take our shadows, maybe a little bit less shadows in their color. There we go. So, the before and the after. I think this is looking actually pretty nice. Yeah, shadow is just a highlight. It's just a tiny bit of green that's helping out change and kind of correct that oversaturation that I had earlier. I think that's beautiful. So, now we can apply this to all of the same images in this series as well. So, let's hit G for our grid tool. Now, we've got our color grading on this one. I'm going to shift click on these other ones. We're going to go to sync settings. Okay, now in this case, I'm not going to click on the masking because all the masks are how I want them. Remember, I reversed some of these masks. So, I don't want to sync my masks. What we are going to do is find our color grading. There we go. Just check that one and hit synchronize, and then everything else is going to stay the same. But now, these all get color graded to be the same. So, look at these images. They're all beautiful. If I hit N for survey view, we can see they look like they're in the same series, which is so nice. I mean, obviously, they are. It's the same subject on a beach, right? But they're all color graded the same. They're all edited the same, and they look really, really good together. And that is the whole idea of these like masking tools is you can edit your subject and apply it. And when doing this, I recommend like make an edit on our first one, and then go to like another image in the series, make a slight edit on that one, go to another image in the series, make a slight edit on that one, and then you can kind of sync across the line. But let's go ahead and just double click here. D for the develop module, let's click on that. So, before and after. I think this is really, really beautiful. Maybe I just want to see our like highlights are just a little bit bright. So, we're just going to take those down, maybe bring our shadows up just a tiny bit, and our color temperature. Let's bring this a little bit cooler. I actually like this a little bit on the cool side, and a little bit towards green. That's so cool. Not so cool, dude. Remember it says hue, saturation, luminance, and color. I'm going to go to, let's go to saturation, and I'm going to click over here on my subject skin. We're just going to click and drag it up for more saturation, and down for less saturation. There we go. It's, it was still looking just a tiny bit magenta for me. So, now I'm just bringing the hue up a little bit, and there we go. I think that's looking a little bit better. So, let's go ahead. Here's our before, and our after with this. That's beautiful. G for the grid tool, and now let's sync those settings again across these. Sync those settings, and then we're going to just uncheck this, and we're going to go to our basic adjustments, because that's what I just changed. Hit synchronize there. Beautiful, and you can see all of those images are being updated in basically real time. Double click on this one, develop module. I can go back. Here's where we imported it, and here's the afterwards. Let's go ahead here with this one. See the same thing. There's our import, and there's the after. Looking really good, and here is the import. There we go. All the way down here, and then here is the after. I think it's looking fantastic. We solved all the issues that we wanted, and kind of worked with the different images in the series, and now they're all color graded correctly. They're all edited correctly. Our subject looks beautiful, and we're good. Thanks so much. We'll see you guys in our next couple examples, where we're just going to continue adding, subtracting, and intersecting, and getting a little bit more complicated with our mask to do some heavy duty problem solving. Thanks so much. We'll see you in the next couple sections. Bye everyone.