Hi everyone, in this video we're going to work through this image...

and transform it into this, we're going to work through...

this light part of the panel, sometimes it gets called Tone...

and we have worked through all of these options right at the beginning...

but we just kind of flew through them.

The goal of this video is, actually explain what they do...

without too much, like minutia, is that the word...

minutia, whatever it is, just give you the broads...

so you know what you're doing when you are dragging them...

all right, let's jump in.

All right, let's bring in some images...

now we've been using this way, Add Photos...

there is a shortcut, I don't use it very much, loads of people do though...

under 'File', you can go 'Add Photos'...

and you can see there, the hieroglyphics...

let's 'Shift Command I' on a Mac, or 'Shift Ctrl I' on PC...

and you're like, "Why don't you use that shortcut?"...

you seem to love the shortcuts...

I do the drag in option, it's the way I use the most.

So in Grid mode I just go to these, go to the Exercise Files...

find the images that I want, in this case I want you to bring in 01 to 04...

because we already have 05, and just drag them into Grid mode...

that's what I like doing, and adding the photos, up to you...

use the shortcut, use the long way, clicking the button...

the one thing with that dragging in version...

it won't work if you're in Details mode...

remember, Grid mode, one of these two, these are both Grid mode...

you can either go Grid Squares or Grid...

it tries to squeeze them in as nicely as it can...

in Details mode, is this option at the end here...

let's say we double click to go inside this one...

I can't add images while I'm in Details mode.

If I grab all these and try and drag them in...

it goes, "Oh," so you have to be in G for Grid mode...

then you can go and add them, and it will add fine...

that's the way I do it, but that's not what we came here for...

we came here to look at the light settings, so let's work on this one here...

all of these images here are from the Adare series...

this is my local little village, it's really pretty...

thatched houses, thatched businesses, cool roofs, and that's the local school...

just some cool old buildings, Ireland is awesome.

So with this open-- I'm going to close this down because that's a bit messy...

and we're going to 'E' for editing, or just click this little button here...

and we're going to work through these...

we kind of covered them quickly at the beginning...

but with no real example or explanation of why you were doing them...

and you came here to be Pros, let's be Pros together.

so the exposure is, it's a really broad slider...

everything lighter or darker, the opposite of that, lighter or darker...

sometimes, or very often an image will come out...

and the exposure will be actually pretty good...

depending on your camera, depending on the lighting conditions.

So sometimes you don't move exposure very much...

but it's very big broad changes, so you've got to decide...

where you want to go with exposure, very broad...

contrast adds a little bit of magic...

the way it does it is it makes the whites whiter and the blacks blacker...

if I crank this up, can you see, it just made the sky really white...

and everything else very dark, it's really cool.

I'm going to leave that off for the moment...

because you can do a lot of that in these last four.

So where it gets confusing is highlights versus whites...

these seem very similarly named, and shadows versus blacks...

what they are is, I've got a little image here, it's in your Exercise Files...

you don't have to open it, but I'm using this as an example...

so Gray Scale, there it is, so when I just, these ones here are easy...

the easiest to understand, when I adjust the whites what I'm doing is...

I'm grabbing the whites, either this pure white...

or anything kind of really close to it, and making them lighter or darker...

same with the blacks, if I adjust this slider, I'm adjusting this pure black...

plus probably this tile here, that's what I'm doing...

as opposed to highlights, which is this larger chunk towards the pure white...

but not quite there, you can make some really big adjustments...

with the highlights and shadows, because shadows isn't black...

isn't quite black here, but it's, most of this last chunk of all the dark colors...

and even though this is gray, think of it more of as tone...

if I had a really red image, the really dark reds...

are going to be affected by blacks and the really pinky reds...

or the pinky whites, are going to be affected by whites.

Think of it not so much as the color gray, but as a tone, dark versus light...

so does that help?, maybe not, let's just drag them.

So highlights, remember, not quite white, but drag it back, forth...

just get to see...

oh, look at the information in the sky, look at that...

awesome, so I'm going to drag that down a little bit, what a lot...

again, when you are dragging these don't be thinking, like...

"Oh, I don't want to drag it too far, that seems too far off"...

like Lightroom's quite protective, it's not going to...

you know, being out here isn't like maximum super power...

completely wrecking it, you can end up quite far out here...

and not be destroying your image, let's say...

don't worry about where the slider is, just look at your image...

be dragging the slider back and forth and decide where you want it to be...

the other photographer, you get to decide, or the editor...

depending on how you're approaching Lightroom.

So that's the same, back and forth, I always start with. a big drag...

everyone kind of like starts, in my classes, they go like this...

"Oh, is this good, or is this good?"

Get in there, give it a shake, see what it does...

oh look at that...

look at all this stuff in here, that's pretty nice, the tree...

I'm going to go about here.

Often, you can do most of the work in highlights and shadows...

and then smaller parts in whites and blacks...

it depends on the image though, that's why they're in this order...

broad, broad, less broad...

oh, look at that stuff in the sky...

there we go, blacks...

oh nice.

I'm dragging the pure blacks...

to make even the ones that were close to being black more black...

these guys here, I'm going to try and push them along...

towards the pure black because the--

I like the contrast in these windows...

in real life they are just kind of dirty, and not quite...

you know, they're quite old and mottled...

but I want this like really cool contrast between them...

remember, backslash on your keyboard, on, off, on, off...

the long way, remember, is down there...

I'm not going to mention that anymore, I'm just going to say, backslash...

you can go down that button if you prefer, oh, I like it.

So start at the top, broad strokes, crank out the contrast...

because I do like it, but really, contrast is adjusting these options in here...

kind of all in one go.

All right, so that is the Light panel, where you do most of your work...

explained a little bit more, so you know what you're doing...

remember, just a quick reminder, how to reset them...

you can, I always double click them, you'll see me in the course doing that...

it's because that's really common...

on other Adobe programs, it's much easier just to click the...

you know, click the word, because it says Reset...

but you'll see me in this course doing it the painful way by double clicking them...

because it's really common in other Adobe programs.

All right, so that's it, we've got a couple of other photographs that I took...

you can play around with these just to practice the settings along here...

resetting them, having a play with some images that maybe aren't your own...

it's always fun, you don't need to submit these particular ones...

just have a play around with them...

and in the next video we'll set a proper class project...

all right, on to that project.