and we are screen recording and audio recording hopefully this tutorial will go okay this is the shot that we're using today I took this in the Maldives using a Sony rx100 Mark three for those of you that don't know that's a pretty middle-of-the-road point-and-click camera no detachable lens it might shoot raw but in this instance this is a JPEG so this is a pretty good representation of what the average person looking to get into Instagram we'll be using and shooting with now I've purposely used this shot because I want the results that you get to be the same as me if I was shooting this with a $10,000 camera and a $5,000 lens then we're obviously going to have differing results but seeing as I've used a regular camera and I've shot it in JPEG mode just with your standard settings I think this is a pretty good image to use to show you how you can use an average camera and still get that awesome travel bloggers look so the first thing I'm gonna do which is annoying me like crazy is actually fix the horizon I don't know if you can see that but for me I can see that it's a little bit wonky and it's doing my head in so I'm gonna go ahead and use the I think that's like a spirit level icon and I'm just gonna draw a line across the horizon and you'll notice immediately the image is fixed I'm gonna go ahead and hit return and boom that immediately looks a lot better I like to work my way from the top right the way to the bottom of this panel typically I start at the top and when I get to the bottom I'm done that's the photo pretty much good to go so let's go ahead and do that today so let's start with the basics firstly up here you've got the eyedropper tool which is the white balance selector so once you've clicked that you can go here and choose any gray area like a neutral gray so you might come over here it's probably a bit too dark down here maybe a bit too light I think here's a pretty good neutral gray like that mid gray if I click that watch what happens boom if I was in a hurry that would be pretty much what I would need to do to get started but because I want to show you everything in this right hand develop panel I'm gonna go ahead and undo that and we're gonna do everything manually so I can show you what I typically do on a shot like this so the first thing I want to do is give this image just a little bit more warmth I'm quite happy with the way it's balanced I love peer skin tones here and I love the Grays of the building so I don't know adjust this too much so I'm just going to move this up maybe like two three four I think that's probably okay and then I want to slide everything a little bit more towards the green so you can see it's starting to pop a little bit when I bring it right the way down it pops now the exposure looks good there's nothing too blown out and there's nothing too dark so I'm actually going to leave that as it is and the contrast looks good too underneath here the blacks are quite nice so I'm not complaining about that so the first thing we'll do here is adjust the highlights and I'm going to bring the highlights down to around about maybe 50 that looks quite good and then with the shadows I'm gonna pump those up to a rental or maybe not that much actually maybe oh well maybe we'll go quite high on this we go around 75 the whites are fine I'm happy with the way the clouds look they're not too blown out if I went really heavy on the white you'd see they'd start to bleach out and that's never a good look so I'm gonna undo that and put that back to zero and with the blacks I'm gonna raise those up just a touch because that's just my personal preference I quite like the way that looks so you can see already it's starting to look a little brighter in those areas there's a little more detail in the darks which is exactly what I want to do next clarity I'm going to reduce the clarity a little bit I'm personally not a fan of clarity you might love it but whenever I see clarity especially on skin tones it just makes people's skin look a bit more dirty it brings out wrinkles it brings out blemishes and it's just not something I love if you're shooting something like architecture clarity is amazing go nuts but if there's a person the shot I tend to I tend to roll it back a little now I also want to put a little bit more saturation in here maybe just six just to give it a little bit more kick I'll show you why later that might seem counterintuitive right now but it will trust me it's going to look good the next main segment you're going to work on and I like to spend a fair bit of time here is the tone curve the first thing I'm gonna do is put some key points so that I don't mess everything up so the first thing I'm going to do is crush the blacks if you watch our vlogs or look at any of Peers photos on instagram you'll know that that's something I personally love to do again personal preference I just like it so I'm gonna bring those blacks up so you can see here underneath the house is the blacks are pretty dark however when I pull this up like so you can see the blacks get crushed the detail is lost in those areas and I just think it gives it a more retro vibe it's just something I personally love I'm probably gonna raise the dark areas just a touch as well so that curve is a little smoother and that's all I'm gonna do with the tone curve for now we might tweak that again in a bit but for now that's pretty okay now the next palette we're gonna work through is the hue saturation and luminance palette now you might have this up in a bit of a different way to me if you have you can just change it to whatever your personal preference is I typically like to have mine set on all HSL but you might just want to adjust the hue separately the saturation set for the other luminance but I would similarly if you click all it just shows everything all in one go so the first thing I'm going to do here is adjust the hues now this doesn't adjust the saturation at all it just adjusts the direction in which the colors lean so here with the Reds I'm gonna give this a little bit of a boost +5 with the oranges I'm gonna lean these towards the Reds now the reason for that let me just put that about minus 15 13 they'll do the reason for that is pure skin is orange here you can see that and skin tones typically fall in this orange hue so if I want her to look a little bit tanned and a little bit more bronzed I need to grab this and adjust it down and push it towards the Reds you can see if I push it too far she ends up looking like a beetroot but what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna leave that about - 12 - 13 something like that with the yellows I'm just gonna knock them back just to touch because if you do that it gives her that golden golden look which is quite nice now with the greens I'm going to pump that up I want the greens to go towards the blues I think that's going to look real nice in this specific photo so I'm going to grab the green and I'm gonna pump those up by a fair amount I'm gonna put that up about maybe 15 okay next one look at the acquisition color here in this particular shot and you'll see it's super green which looks beautiful but it's not what I want so I'm gonna crank that up quite heavily yeah think about there you see how that's really turned like a beautiful blue that's what I want this shot to look like and I want to go ahead and make the sky to about 20 if I just flick between the two you'll see how that changes quite a lot now with the purple emergences there's not much purple or magenta in this shot so you can just leave that so let's go ahead and move down to saturation I like everything to be a little less saturated so we're going to move this down to about minus 30 for the Reds the oranges I don't want to be too much so maybe 27 the yellows there the greens I want to remove quite a lot and the Aqua I want to push down as well and when you do that you'll notice it makes the ocean look clearer and with the blues I'm really going to desaturate that sky I want that to look like a a retro image there we go that's nice see how the blue of that sky has just gone but doesn't it look great the luminance affects the brightness so if I grab oranges for example which is pure skin tone and I drag it right the way down you'll see that she gets really dark or conversely I can lighten that right the way up so this is the panel I tend to play with a little bit I just go through every color go up go down and just see what my personal preference is with the Reds here I think I want to go down a bit just a touch and with the oranges I want to go down quite a bit more just want to give Pierre that real real nice tan there we go that's great be nice to set that turn in real life now with the yellows I'm gonna push it quite high because what it does is it makes the highlights of Peers skin a bit lighter you'll see how kind of gives her that glow it's like she's got moisturizer on when you push the yellows up so we'll leave that up around about 40 the greens can pretty much stay where they are I think I don't that's gonna really affect too much no not really with the aqua I'm just gonna drop it down a touch I think it might look a little bit too bright right now something like that and with the blues I want that sky to get even lighter so I'm gonna push a bit higher I love it when the sky is like blue but almost white it really gives it an airy feeling it's really nice so I think we'll leave that around about 20 and you can see messing with the purple messing with the magenta it literally does barely anything to this photo because there isn't any of those colors in this shot so if there were colors then we'd play with that but right now that's that's pretty good so sharpening is something I typically do in Lightroom rather than Instagram I know that Instagram does have a sharpen filter and sometimes I'll use it but I actually prefer the sharpening in Lightroom it's just a bit nice-sized a more professional app so it does a better job so to show you what that looks like I'm gonna zoom in on the area up here which is the thatched roof and I'm just going to sharpen this to around about twenty or thirty just to show you and when I switch the detail back on and back off you can really see it makes a really big difference but it doesn't affect the skin tones too much which is what I want because you don't want every pore and everything to be super sharp and you know that's not very nice to look at now scrolling down further we've got lens correction we don't need that because this was shot with a standard point and click and then we get to effects now effects is quite an interesting one I see a lot of people use vignette includes oral I should show you what it is if I drag this to the left it just darkens the edges a bit like an old-time photo and if you go to the right it will lighten the edges unless you're making really bad wedding invites I don't know why you want to use that but I guess some people do then we get to grain and now this is something I have a particular issue with because I love film grain but I do see it I've used a lot and I think it's overused a lot when people use apps on their phones to add grain at small sizes so when you've got a small screen and you're adding grain you can't really tell whether you've added too much or too little but in Lightroom because you're on a big screen you can see it quite nicely and I typically use around about 25 25 and 25 obviously that's provided you haven't downloads the image at all this is the full resolution JPEG image and when you zoom in you just get a nice little grain which when you put into Instagram it just looks nice camera calibration is something you probably don't need to use too much I'm quite happy with the way this shot looks but for the sake of this demonstration I will show you what it does so all images are made of red green and blue RGB and this panel controls how much of each color comes into the picture and thus controls what your picture looks like so if I wanted no red to be in this picture I could just drop that out the picture remains the same but there's no red everything you see here is now made of just green and blue so this is a little bit of trial and error because you don't know how each photo is going to react because every photo is taken in a different environment I'm just going to go ahead and tweak these just as harsh now if I go ahead and switch back to the original image it's a pretty big difference and what you'll see there is we've managed to bring out the skin tones make them look super sunkissed the sky has been pushed right the way back to an almost grey like a grey blue which gives it a really nice retro look the blacks are crushed so the detail in those areas is gone and you'll see that water has gone from a beautiful green to an almost clear blue which is exactly what I wanted so I hope you enjoyed it that was my first tutorial I 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