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Enhancing iPhone Photos with Lightroom and Photoshop

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Overview

Learn how to shoot better iPhone photos and make them look their best with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

Apple's iPhone is one of the most popular cameras in the world. It delivers great results, but there's always room for improvement. In this course, Adobe Photoshop senior product manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes shares insights to help you import, organize, and enhance iPhone photos using Lightroom and Photoshop. The course begins with tips on getting the best possible quality when you shoot, then details strategies for importing and organizing photos using Lightroom.

Next, Bryan explores Lightroom and Photoshop techniques aimed at working around the iPhone camera's limitations and making mobile photos look their best: enhancing dynamic range, correcting lens distortion, reducing noise and enhancing sharpness, and much more. Plus, learn how to create HDR images and panoramas, and even lift still images from video.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
  • Using challenges
  • Why use Lightroom and Photoshop for iPhone photos and video?
1. Tips for Shooting and Importing into Lightroom
  • Shooting your best with metering and focus
  • Using the iPhone's HDR and panorama features
  • Tips for importing photos into Lightroom
  • Using Image Capture to clear the iPhone
2. Enhancing Photos in Lightroom
  • Making basic enhancements and using presets
  • Correcting lens distortion
  • Reducing noise
  • Sharpening
  • Enhancing parts of a photo
  • Adding grain to hide artifacts
  • Challenge: Fine-tuning an iPhone photo
  • Solution: Fine-tuning an iPhone photo
  • Passing files to Photoshop and other applications
3. Making Advanced Enhancements in Photoshop
  • iPhone HDR vs. true HDR
  • iPhone panoramas vs. manual panoramas
  • Creating a collage from multiple images
  • Employing selective focus
  • Employing selective sharpening
  • Increasing the resolution of a photo
  • Generating still images from iPhone video clips
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Bryan O'Neil Hughes

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