Lightroom: Creating Effects

Course details

Thanks to the new masking advancements, it's easier than ever to create light leaks and flares with one click in Lightroom Classic. In this course, follow along as Kristina Sherk shows you how to use presets to create one-of-a-kind effects and add them to images. Go over the tools you can use and dive into creating starburst rays, starburst haze and color effects, a starburst center, lens flares, and lens flare circles. Then learn how to integrate these effects into a reusable mystical Lens Flare preset. Explore light leak presets and stylistic color grading. Find out how to apply presets to new images and to more than one image at a time. Give your images a cool airy feel or a new color treatment by adjusting presets that use color grading and lens flare effects.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Having fun and being creative in Lightroom
02 - Exercise files
03 - Learn about Lightroom Classic masking

1. Create a Lens Flare

04 - Sneak peek - What you're going to create
05 - Creating first effect - Starburst rays
06 - Creating second effect - Adding Starburst haze and color
07 - Creating third effect - Creating the Starburst center
08 - Create fourth effect - Creating lens flare crescent
09 - Create fifth effect - Creating lens flare circles
10 - Create the preset for future use
11 - Applying and refining special effect presets to an image

2. Create Light Leak Presets

12 - Sneak peek - What you're going to create
13 - Creating light leak streak effects - Step 1
14 - Creating light leak streak effects - Step 2
15 - Applying light leak preset and stylistically refinement

3. Add Stylistic Color Grading

16 - Color grading panel overview
17 - What is color grading
18 - Apply color grading to actual Image
19 - Saving a color grading preset and apply to other images

4. Applying Presets to New Images

20 - Applying presets to more than one image at a time
21 - The problem with horizontal and vertical stylistic presets

Conclusion

22 - Thinking outside of the Lightroom box

Lightroom: Creating Effects

Authors

Kristina Sherk