Now we're going to look at a couple of other features and the develop module was not part of the pretty lady. We're going to look at Lens Correction so you can go down. To remove chromatic aberration, you can see there's a fine, fuzzy yellow line at the edge of that bar is not particularly pronounced and so much better. in any situation we've got high contrast with very bright light, you will often find that there is some purple fringing it's known as or chromatic aberration, and by utilizing the lens correction in here in Lightroom, at all take most of that out for you. In particular, as you're wanting to sell your images on stock websites, this is something that they can be very, very picky about. So that's a nice introduction to Lightroom and hasn't always been there, that it's very welcome and very usable.

So now coming on down to look at the lens profile that Lightroom has chosen. Scrolling down here, all these multitude of Nichol lenses, and you'll see that it's picked up that I'm using my one iPhone I've if 2.8. And I can apply the lens corrections for that particular liens to the image. Let's come down now to the tone to the panel and have a look at this. This is manipulating the tone and the image obviously, no smell, no you can click on here and then take your cursor across onto the image into an area want to adjust and then just click and drag up or down to lighten or darken all of the tones and that image and that range not just where you're clicking. But anyway and that is kind of similar time so you can see the bright areas across the end.

As changing when I click and drag then and in under some dark areas if you want to bring a bit more light or if you want to dark and then down, you can use this tool the same way. And then you can go across to the sliders as well and that's similar to using the sliders at the top and then go back up and to the top panel, the cook adjustment panel and manipulate some more, I feel like I want to bring the skin tone a bit brighter on his face. Asian ladies like to have nice light skills, I will do her a favor there. And then come back over into this very broad area and take that down again just a little bit. Who is be careful not to work to extremes and Lightroom because if you do, you can actually start to lose image quality that image will start to break down and become unusable.

If you push your changes to extremes. And a times this can be visible and other times it's not so easy to say until you zoom in at 100%. Now let's come on up to the brush tool and have a look at this. I like to use this particularly for working on exposure. So just click on the image around the area that you want to work on and place a placement marker there for this brush. To give you an indication of where it is you've used it.

And as you can see, that's pretty extreme. It's over the top that I'm telling you what the ceiling was so that I can easily see the effect and the areas that I'm having an effect on an image. And then once have painted on a little bit here and a little bit here. The words were brighter than just adjusting the brush size to be a bit more detailed and now I can come back over to the slider and adjuster and I will adjust only the areas where the brush has painted where it's had an effect. And at that stage then I can balance it to a point where I'm happy whether I turn that brush off and select the brush again, drop in another point because I want to take the tone of this backlit fabric down some more. So just painting on there a few other areas too still too bright for my liking.

See if I can find some detail on them. Click off that brush again, select a new one and work on Hair, Skin time. So now I'm over exposing how to change the paint on there. And it's given a nice even tone to his face here. A little bit later on the vegetables in the shade want to touch down the bottom at all quite happy with them. So you can see it's made quite a significant difference turning off and on again to see the change that we've made by using that brush as an Erase tool here too.

So if you go and just for example, I'll just light on that area there and then click the arise and you can see that you can undo path or all of what you painted on with the brush by using the eraser tool. So I'd use that say again just for example during this lighten the delay, try out too much click the Erase tool and then carefully go along the edge of the vegetables a little bit rough but just for example, it's hard to use the Erase tool if you're using a brush and you've gone over where you want to you can come back and under. Now, this is another little friend called auto masking that you can use or zoom in here. Using the auto mask tool when you paint, only the same tone that is under the center of the brush where you've clicked, will be affected and as you can see here, the the light tone of the wall behind the bars is being affected.

But the darker tone of the bars is not being affected. I'm very careful when I'm using us because quite often you can get a rim or a ridge of pixels that doesn't play nicely with and you get this ugly effect happening here. So I tend to try and use my brush really carefully and not rely on the auto mask. But at times, particularly when your image is really sharp, it can work very well. And you've got different sliders here to affect the way that the brush works. You've got the feather on the size, the flow and the density.

And with these sliders, you can manipulate the splash tone to how you have a feeling for using them. So matter of practicing some what was that and getting a feel for getting used to. But it's a very powerful tool for manipulating your images in Lightroom. So I'm just going to come down here to these images of the Chinese tempo and compare these two, this one was a bit closer and that's not the strike, but the vehicles and this one, definitely on a lane converging there So, not so good. So let's open the develop module and make some adjustments to this to get it looking nice to get it tightened and balanced nicely. I usually bring the exposure down a little bit because it was overexposed and wants them pretty good.

Bump the contrast up a little bit. And then we'll come down here to the transform panel and open that and then here we are going to be able to drag the vertical slider around In Kira, vertical upright lines, nice and straight, the grids there to help. But you can see down there it's losing some of the image because it's manipulating it and doing that with a white background so you can just drag and crop either side, bring it home and then bring the thought I'm at least a little bit of a triangle, a white triangle on that bottom corner, because we don't want to come too close to the internet or you can try and get right on and it's just a tiny little bit the same way via and it shouldn't be too difficult to plan that out later in Photoshop. Got some nice straight lines there.

Just bring them back down to we we finished our adjustments and have a look to see the difference. That's my that's my color difference to that image, okay, we've sacrificed some of the space around them. I could have, I could have put on a, maybe a 20 mo liens that I've got this a shot with my 35 would have exaggerated the perspective but Okay, so we can come down here we can constrain the crop. And this way we are not going to see any of the white age the white background that showed up on the other image that we are going to get some cropping at the top of the image. So oftentimes, I'll just find happy balance. I won't necessarily get my uprights exactly straight.

But that's looking pretty good. Looking at that pagoda I'm not actually sure The together a straight up cipher actually tapers efforts wider at the bottom and narrower at the top. The center of it seems to be nice and straight. So there's one more handy tool to help you correct perspective when you've used the liens that has resulted in some distortion.