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Welcome back.

In this lesson we're gonna be working with History.

Working with Presets and we're gonna be

creating some Snapshots.

As we covered in our first lesson one of the great

things about Lightroom is that it works with

your images in a non-destructive way.

What that means is that any changes,

any adjustments, any cropping that you do

to your images are done to a set of instructions

within the Lightroom database.

They don't directly modify your original RAW files.

What that allows you to do is experiment and play

with all the settings in Lightroom to your heart's content.

And Lightroom keeps a History of all of these

steps that you perform and you can see that

right here in the Develop module.

On the left panel you'll see a section called History.

You can click on that disclosure triangle to show

you the entire history of that image.

All the different adjustments and settings that I've done

to that image to arrive at

my final image here

that's presented in the middle of my screen.

The neat thing about the History panel is that I can

go back to any one of these changes on the left

hand side by actually hovering

over the History states

and see how the image changes on the Navigator panel

on the upper left hand corner.

I can also click on any one of these points

in my HIstory and actually see what the image

looks like in the center part of my screen

in that particular point in the History of that image.

Now, one thing to always keep in mind is that one image

can't have multiple Histories.

So as you click on a point

in the History a little further down

and you tried to make a change at that point

you will lose any items above

that point in the History.

Because you cannot have multiple Histories

for a particular image.

I know that sounds a little bit complicated

but it's pretty simple.

At this point, where I am here

halfway through the History of this image,

if I went on the right hand side and

change my Exposure let's say,

what would happen is that

I will lose any of these other changes that I did

above this particular point that I'm at right now.

Now, the beauty of this is that this is where Snapshots

come in and it's a great segue

into looking at Snapshots.

What Snapshots allows you to do is

it allows you to create multiple Histories if you will,

for one particular image.

It's creating a Snapshot for an image,

let's say that you made a lot of edits

and a lot of adjustments to an image.

You liked what you did but you want to be able to

experiment a little more.

One of the great things about Snapshots is that it

allows you to freeze those changes in that

particular place in history,

make additional changes and create other Snapshots.

So for example, right now I'm at

the top of the History for this image.

I can go to my Snapshots panel here

on the left hand side on the Develop module,

click on the little plus sign and a Dialogue box

will come up asking me to name this Snapshot.

The default is a date and time so we'll leave that

right now 'cause it's a good reference point for that

particular Snapshot.

I can then hit Create and you can see that this particular

image now has a Snapshot set for a

particular time and date.

I can now go ahead and make all sorts

of other changes to the image.

Let's say I wanted to change,

not so much the Exposure but I want to

creatively change the look of this image as well.

So I can make by playing around a little bit with my

White Balance I can create a different look to the image

and make my background really warm.

Now I may like this image just as well as I like

the other image and I can now create another Snapshot

for this image and let's call it

Warm Background.

You can see here now that under the Snapshots

section in the Develop module,

I have two Snapshots for this particular image.

I can hover over either one of those and actually

see a preview of what that image will look like

in my Navigator or I can click on them and actually

see the two different treatments that I applied

to that image.

Again, this is a very easy way to experiment with an image

without fear that you're gonna mess up and undo

some of the work that you did previously.

You can create as many Snapshots as you want

for an image and switch between them at

any point in time.

Now let's say you worked really hard on an image

and you created a look that you really like and

you want to apply the same look to

a bunch of other images.

There are multiple ways of doing that in Lightroom.

One of the best ways to do that is by creating a Preset.

And think of a Preset as similar to a Snapshot

except that the Preset you can then apply to

many other images at any point in time.

So let's go back to looking at the Preset that I

created here by re-adjusting

my White Balance to an extreme

to create a really warm image.

And let's say that I wanna take all of these steps

that I took to create this image

and I wanna save them into a Preset.

Very easy to do.

Well go here into the Preset panel and

we click on the plus sign and

a big Dialogue box comes up

asking us all sorts of questions.

And it kinda looks a little daunting but it's

really easy to understand.

The first thing you wanna do is give your Preset a name.

So we're gonna give this one

a name called Extra Warm.

Now you have all these other options to choose from

and these are all the different controls and sliders

that we have and you can select which ones

about this image you want to save as a Preset.

So for example, in this case we certainly want the

White Balance 'cause that's one of the things that

allowed me to create this look.

I can also change or turn off or on all these

different other settings, like my basic Tone or Exposure.

If that's something I want to capture as part of

the Preset or not.

Whether it's Split Toning or any effects

that I may have applied.

I can also check all of them on or off.

Once I've selected the items that I wanna save

as part of my Preset

I hit Create and you can see down here

on my Preset list under User Presets

I have the Presets that I just created.

So for example I can now go to another image

let's say, this image of the prong horn that we saw earlier

and then by clicking on the

Extra Warm Preset button I can apply

that same effect to this image.

In the case of this image this effect doesn't really

work all that well.

But the great thing about Lightroom is I can

always undo any change that I've made.

And I'm gonna do that by hitting Command Z.

One of the awesome things about Presets and Lightroom

is that Lightroom comes built in with a bunch

of different Presets to impart all sorts of looks

on your images.

However, even better than that is the fact that you

can download Presets from different people.

There's a lot of people that create Presets and

give them away, some that you can purchase.

And you can install those and you can even create your own

and share them with your friends.

For example, let's take a look at some of the Presets

that Lightroom comes with.

If you go over here on the Presets panel you'll

see a bunch of Presets that start with the word Lightroom

and these are the ones that come built-in with Lightroom

so you can see that it has a bunch of different Presets

here for black and white, applying different color

filters with black and white.

And as we saw with History and with Snapshots

you can actually hover over any one of these

and get a preview of what that Preset will look like

on your image up on the Navigator panel.

Or I can click on the Presets and actually see

what each of these Presets looks like.

There's all sorts of effects.

For example, these apply different colors for

black and white.

Here is a set of Presets that I downloaded off

the Internet that will also add, for example,

green to an image.

Some people like green imparted on to their

black and white images.

So here is a Preset that applies a really nice green

texture to the images that gives you that look

of old black and white film.

You can also go to the Adobe website and there

you'll find a directory that lists Presets

created by many different people.

Now we've worked a lot with History and

we've seen how powerful it is to be able to see

every single step that we've taken as

we've edited an image.

But oftentimes we wanna see our work as compared

to what we did before to what we're currently working on.

And see a before and after view, so to speak.

Lightroom provides multiple ways of doing this.

The first way to do it is sort of the manual way,

if you will, which I can do by scrolling down on

my History and going to the first date in the History

and seeing what that looks like and then going

back to the top and seeing what it looks like now.

That's one way to do it but not the most

efficient way to do it.

Lightroom provides a keyboard shortcut to

let you see a Before and After view.

And this is one of my favorite keyboard shortcuts.

And it's simply the backslash key on your keyboard.

If I hit the backslash key on my keyboard,

which is the key above the Return key on your

keyboard, you can see that the image on my screen

changes to a before, and if I hit that key again

it goes to an After view and you can see the changes

that I've made throughout all the steps in my History.

Now, sometimes it's a little difficult to see

when you are in the before mode or you're in the after mode

and the way to tell, the easy way to tell is when

you hit that backslash key

on the upper right hand side up here

you'll see a little flag that says Before.

And that's when you know that you are in the Before

mode and the reason I say that and why it's important

to notice when you're in the Before mode is because

when I'm in the Before mode I can make adjustments

to my sliders and I won't see any of those changes

on the screen.

And sometimes it can be a little confusing.

So if you make changes to your sliders and you don't

see any changes appearing on your screen,

make sure you're not in the Before mode.

However, this is not the only way to

compare your work as you're working on the image

to what the image looked like previously.

If you look down on your Toolbar at the bottom

of the Develop module.

And if you don't have the Toolbar you can hit the T key

on your keyboard to make that Toolbar

appear and disappear.

And you'll have a little button down here

that has two y's plus two little boxes on it.

What I can do is I can pull down that menu and choose

between the four Before and After modes.

And then first option that I have is

Before and After Left to Right.

So let's click on that option to see

what the screen looks like.

If I click on that option what it will do is it will

show me the two images side by side,

in the Before mode and in the After mode.

You can then also decide where the Before is

and After by clicking any of these buttons

down here at the bottom in the Toolbar.

You can also change this

to be left to right split,

which is the view that I would prefer to do,

where the image is split in half, one side shows you Before

and the other side shows you After.

And you do have two more modes which is

Before and After Top and Bottom or a split view

Top and Bottom.

Just a couple easy ways to

be able to review your work.

Now let's say for example, that you've done all of this work

and you don't like what you've done.

You can always hit the Reset button down here

on the lower right hand side

to actually revert the image to it's original state.

It allows you to start from scratch.

But if I hit that button right now it's not

going to delete my History.

It is just going to add another point in the History

that says Reset.

So that gives me a chance to go back if I

change my mind later on.

Now, time for some homework.

Pick some of your favorite images and create

a couple different variations on those images

and save them as Snapshots

and you'll see how useful that feature is.

In our next lesson we'll be covering cropping

and local adjustments.

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