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Hello again.

In this lesson, we're going to cover

how to apply adjustments to multiple images

using external editors together with Lightroom

and using third party plug-ins.

Throughout this class, we have seen

how powerful Lightroom is at helping

us edit our images.

But one of the great things about Lightroom

is that it helps us in editing large

groups of images at the same time.

Lightroom provides three different ways

to copy the settings you've applied to one image

to multiple images in a set.

So let's take a look at those.

Here we have a set of five images of Bison in the snow.

I created this set of images in order to create a panorama.

So, what I want to do is, I want to apply

the same level of correction to all five images

so that when I stitch them together, they flow

seamlessly from one to the other.

So what I'm going to do is go to my first image,

and typically what I will choose is the

center image of a panorama to do

my corrections and adjustments.

Now, I've done that already with this set,

and I could go to all other images,

the other four images and apply

the exact same corrections, but that's

going to be an error-prone process at worst.

Thankfully, Lightroom provides me with a feature

to allow me to copy those same settings

from one image to the other.

Let's take a look.

This is the center image.

I made some adjustments here.

We're going to make one more little

adjustment to this image.

We're going to change my exposure down

a little bit, or maybe a little bit up.

And now I want to apply this exact same

level of adjustments to one of the previous images.

I'm going to use my left arrow to go to

the previous image.

As you can see here, that this image

has no adjustments to it.

It looks a lot darker than the image we saw earlier.

So by simply clicking on the previous button,

on the lower right-hand corner of the develop module,

what this will do is it will copy my adjustment settings

from the previous image I worked on and apply them

to the image I'm looking at at this point.

I can now go to my other image and hit

previous again, and it will apply that same setting.

I can do that for my entire set of images,

all five images if I wanted to.

The previous button is a very easy way,

a quick way to copy settings from one image to the other.

The disadvantage of the previous button is that

it copies every single adjustment that you've made.

If you want to be a little bit more selective

as to what adjustment to copy

from one image to another, then you can use

the copy and paste buttons on the lower left-hand

side of the develop module.

I'm looking here at my original image,

the one in the center, I can hit copy,

and this dialog box comes up that allows me to select

which settings I want to copy,

to then apply to my other images.

In this case, I want to select everything.

In a lot of cases, you may not want to select everything.

You may want to, for example, unselect a crop,

because you may not want to copy the crop

from one image to another.

But in this case, I didn't crop any of the images,

I'm just going to simply select check all.

And then I can hit the copy button

to copy all those settings.

Now I can go to another image and click on

the paste button to apply all those settings

that I selected just now when I hit the copy button.

So let's do that, I'm going to hit the paste button,

and you can see that all of those settings were applied.

This is a much more flexible way to copy settings

from one image to another, because I'm able

to select exactly those settings

that I want to apply to the other image.

Now that I have applied all the settings to

all five images in my set, I can take

those five images and bring them to an

external program to create my finished panorama.

And this is what the results look like.

You can see that all the images blend from one to the other

because I made sure that I performed the exact

same adjustments between all the images,

that the exposure was set the same,

the white balance was the same, and so forth.

This is the only way to be able to create

a nice seamless panorama by copying

those settings from one image to the other.

Now let's take a look at another set here

where I want to apply the same setting

to a number of images.

This could be as few as three images,

or it could be thousands of images.

Here we have an image of a marbled godwit

that I took in California a number of years ago.

I made some adjustments to this image here,

to the first image in the set, and I really like this image

and I like the sequence of images

because it shows this marbled godwit

walking around on the sand.

Now, I could go as I said earlier, go and apply

the exact same adjustments to each one of those images

or I could use the previous button

as we saw earlier, or use the copy and paste.

But if I have a number of images and I want

to apply the exact same settings to any one of those,

and the way I'm going to do that is

by selecting the first image in the set,

holding down the shift key on my keyboard,

and clicking on the last image of that set.

and what that's doing is creating

a continuous selection of images.

Now, you noticed the first image I clicked on

is a little brighter than the other images.

And this is where the sync setting,

which we're going to look up in a second,

is going to source the corrections that we have made

and apply those to all the other subsequent images.

So now once I have my selection,

I'm gonna go down here on the lower right-hand side

in the library module in Lightroom,

click on sync settings, and we get the same dialog box

that we saw earlier when we clicked on the copy settings.

Here, we can select which settings to synchronize

across all of these images, and in this case

I can check all again, because I am not

excluding any one of them, but if I wanted to

let's say for example, I didn't want to copy

the crop setting across the board,

or the spot removal, I can uncheck those, for example,

and then simply hit the synchronize button.

And as you can see, as soon as I hit the synchronize button,

Lightroom applies that same set of corrections

to all the images in my set.

As you can see, this is a very easy way to work

with multiple images in Lightroom and be able

to apply the exact same corrections and settings

across the whole set of images.

As powerful and capable as Lightroom is,

there's certain things that it can't really do all that well

or you may even be more comfortable

doing those in a different program.

Luckily, Lightroom interfaces and communicates

very well with programs such as

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.

So let's take a look at how to do that.

In this image here of the bison what I want to do

is I want to add some text to the image.

Something that you can't really do in Lightroom,

but I can do in Photoshop.

So in order for me to tell Lightroom to open

this image in Photoshop so that I can

do that editing, I can simply go up to the menu,

under photo, do edit in and select Adobe Photoshop

or Adobe Photoshop Elements, and by simply doing that,

Lightroom is now communicating with Photoshop,

Photoshop is going to open up and

open up this image, and it's going to allow me

to perform whatever edits I want to do.

In this case, I'm simply going

to put in some text on the image.

So I'm going to select my text tool here

Click, type in Bison Yellowstone National Park.

And there we go.

This is a change I just made in Photoshop,

something I couldn't really couldn't do in Lightroom.

Now in order for Photoshop to communicate

back to Lightroom and send this image back to Lightroom,

all I really need to do, simply is go into the file menu,

and hit save or do my shortcut, command-s.

And what this is doing now is saving the file,

handing it off back to Lightroom.

If you rename the file or save the file in any other way,

you are not going to be able to send that file directly into

Lightroom and you'll have to import it manually later on.

So now that I've saved the file,

I can completely quit out of Photoshop.

And here we're back in Lightroom and you can see

that the image was transferred over with the wording on it.

Now, there is a drawback to doing

any sort of edits externally, whether it's with

Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, any of those things

because, as we have talked about a number of times,

Lightroom uses a non-destructive editing process.

Photoshop can't directly edit your raw file.

And we did something in Photoshop that Lightroom can't do.

So what Lightroom and Photoshop have done

is they've created another copy of my file

in a different format, in the TIFF format.

And you can see that here by me switching back

to the library module, you can see that I have

my original file here, without the text on it

and then the file that I edited

in Photoshop with the text on it.

This is a great way to enhance the capabilities in Lightroom

and do things you may not be able to do in Lightroom

with external programs, but you've got to

keep in mind that now you're going to end up

with two different files because you did some

editing process that is really what's called

a destructive editing process because

we essentially changed the file.

You cannot do that to a raw file in Lightroom,

a duplicate of the file gets created.

As we saw, Lightroom works really well with external editors

such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

But it also plays extremely well

with third party plug-ins.

And third party plugins can extend your creative options

when you're working on your images.

So let's take a look at how to do that.

So we looked at this image

of Mount Rainier in an earlier lesson.

And one of the things that we did,

is we converted the image to black and white

using the built-in tools in Lightroom.

However there are a number of third-party plugins

that give you even greater control and more flexibility

and even presets for creating black and white images.

So let's explore one of those.

Again, if I want to edit this image in a plug-in,

I will simply go into the photo menu,

go to edit in, and you can see that

I have a bunch of different third party plugins installed,

but we're going to choose this one, called Tonality Pro.

What will happen next is that you'll get this dialog box.

As we talked about earlier, when you are editing

a file in an external program, the file needs

to be converted so that the external program

can actually work with the file in a destructive manner.

But since Lightroom is always gonna preserve

your original file, what Lightroom is asking

you here is if it's ok to create a copy of this file

and then edit the file with a third-party plug-in.

So we're gonna go ahead and click on edit

and Lightroom is going to go ahead and create that copy

of that file and launch that third party plugin,

which is then going to give me

all sorts of options.

This works really similar to the way

we looked at when we used Photoshop.

And here I can perform any sort of adjustments

or corrections or creative effects to my image.

I'm just going to simply pick out from one of these presets.

Plug-ins like this can offer a myriad of options,

creative effects that in some cases,

you'll even be hard-pressed to even

perform within Lightroom.

Once you've made your changes, all you simply

will need to do is hit apply or save.

The plug-in will go ahead, process the image

and then send it right back into Lightroom.

And here we have the resulting image.

It is that easy to work

with third party plug-ins in Lightroom.

Well, this wraps up the formal instruction

part of the class.

But I look forward to continuing

the conversation with you on the platform.

Please, feel free to ask questions,

and I would love to see your photo masterpieces,

so make sure to post them and share them

with me and your fellow classmates.

Remember, the beauty of Lightroom

is its non-destructive editing process.

So make sure to experiment with your images

and most important, have fun while doing it.

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