How I Edit My Photos In Lightroom And Photoshop - My Top 10 Tips
How I Edit My Photos In Lightroom And Photoshop – My Top 10 Tips
Every editor will have their own personal workflow when editing photos. No editor is the same. Today I’m going to talk through how I edit my photos and hopefully give new budding photographers some useful tips.
Before editing any photo you need to find your style. What’s your vibe? Do you prefer light and airy or dark contrast with bold colours? Personally, I’m not a fan of light an airy. I…
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Color Grading: Using Adobe Lightroom (CC) to Make an Image More Dynamic.
Normally, I spend my summer vacations chasing sunrises and sunsets down at the beach. I’ve been fortunate enough to see some really gorgeous scenes. But this past vacation, the weather was not on my side and the sunrises and sunsets were pretty dull. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t get any good pictures. In fact, if the colors are only needed for the background ambiance of a photo, a lot of that can be created using Adobe Lightroom.
Here’s a color grading tutorial under the cut on how to turn this image below into the one you see above as this post’s banner.
I’d like to start by saying this if my first written tutorial in a long time, so thank you for clicking over, but please be patient with me. I am not and do not claim to be a photography teacher, and this will not be a comprehensive tutorial. More like a few tips to point you in the right direction.
***LAST THING BEFORE WE BEGIN: please DO NOT STEAL any of the images used in this guide. They are copyrighted fully by myself, Jamie Kassa, and are not to be edited or reposted without my explicit permission. If I see people have stolen any of my photos used in this I will not be making any more posts like it. Please don’t spoil the fun. Thank you.
Okay! Thanks for sticking around and let’s get started!
Here is the original image and the specs from my camera:
As this is not a tutorial for how to take the photo, I won’t get into details about what was used or why these settings -- perhaps that can be something I go over in a different post some day if enough people show interest -- but if you already know a bit about photography and wanted to see them, here they are.
So that’s our starting point. Now, first thing to do with a photo once you take it into Lightroom is get the crop and rotation right. Here’s how I cropped mine:
I use a 5x4 crop most often for portrait length images since that’s Instagram’s limit. It’s a good idea to make the horizon as close to straight as possible, as you can see by the breakers behind the toy car. If your composition is a little off this can also be a good time to correctly apply the Rule of Two Thirds to align your subject, in this case the little car, to the spot on the image most visually appealing.
Also remember to click on the lens correction profile. With this, Lightroom will automatically correct for the natural distortion of your lens.
Now once the image is cropped and composed, you can do some basic editing to make the image begin to appear more vibrant with warm, sunrise colors. Make the color balance warmer and the tint pinker, adjust basic settings such as light and vibrance/saturation, curves, dehave, hues (HSL), and split toning.
Here’s how the image starts to look with basic edits:
(You’ll also notice I also added on to one of the light bokeh bubbles in the right corner of the frame by the car. This was done using the Spot Removal tool. Just an artistic choice because that part of the frame seemed somewhat empty to me at the time.)
Here’s a screenshot of some of my basic settings at this point in the edit:
And here’s the shot again with the addition of split toning and adjusting the tone curve:
But these are edits that effect the entire image. Remember that sunrises are dynamic and effect different parts of a scene unequally. Once you’ve set up the ground work, you can start doing more specific edits to certain parts of your shot.
To balance the image and draw the eye more towards the toy car, I chose to make it appear the sun was rising beyond the right edge of the frame. I started adding radial and graduated filters to make the upper right corner appear brighter, warmer, more vibrant, and more contrast-y than the rest of the image.
Keep in mind, this is done most realistically by applying edits to all areas of the frame; the parts you want the eye to be drawn to, and the parts of lesser interest. You’ll notice in the above picture that areas like the bottom left have been made darker and colder, and areas like the upper left has been somewhat desaturated.
The last things to do is the really minute and exact edits using the brush feature. I sometimes use dozens of brushes while editing my pictures, especially ones that require some element of digital imaging engineering such as this one. In this shot, I added clarity and upped sharpness to the car, made the whole car brighter and more saturated, brought out the details around the grill and tires, lowered the highlights around the windshield so it would be more visible, enhanced the car’s reflection on the wet sand under it, upped the blacks along the breakers to make the waves more visible, and used the temp/tint/and color overlay options to make a more steady transition from the warm to the cool areas of the frame.
To give you an idea, here are all the brush markers I had open by the end of this edit in Lightroom:
And, at last, here’s the final image:
I hope this little walk-through has been helpful, or at the very least interesting. Remember, these are just some of my methods when to comes to making an image more dynamic. There are hundreds of ways to edit a photo and dozens of ways to create each effect. There isn’t a right or wrong when it comes to how you edit or how you take the idea in your head and translate it to your canvas. The goal of this tutorial was not to tell you how to edit your photos. It was to show you that with the right tools at your disposal you can really do a lot to augment an image and a bum sunset should in no ways handicap you.
Always keep creating.
...Let me know if you found this insightful and would possibly like to see more in the future.
An alternative to exporting your finished photographs from Lightroom is to use the print to file option available in the print tab.
Here is what the print tab looks like in a full screen capture from Lightroom:
This process uses an embedded version of Adobe’s longstanding print engine Distiller. The end result is a very high quality file (depending on the settings used of course).
Using this process, you can add branding identity and watermarks by using the options in the Page dialog:
You can also add borders in the Image Settings and Layout dialogs:
The black pinline around the sample photo in the first screen capture above was created using the stroke border option. The white border was created using a preset page size and adjusting the cell size sliders.
To create a page-size border using this method, click on the Page Setup button in the lower left of the screen when you’re in the Print Tab.
When you’re doing this, make sure you are using the Adobe PDF printer that embeds itself into your system when you install Adobe apps.
Choose a page size and orientation that suits your photo. Make sure you have the Print Job settings in the print tab set to JPEG, and choose a resolution that suits your purpose:
Many people do not know that you can make custom page sizes in Windows that will show up when you’re involved with processes like the one described above. Click on the Windows Start Button, and then click on the Settings icon. Click on Devices and Printers until you arrive at a screen like this:
If you single-click on any of the printers (the Adobe PDF printer is highlighted in the above example), the Print Server Properties option will appear (highlighted here in yellow). Clicking on the Print Server Properties option will make the following screen appear:
Here you can check Create a new form, and apply a name and the size values you want. Click on Save Form and OK to finish the process. Note that in this example the page name is 1 x 1, but the actual page dimensions are 40 x 40 cm - this will give your finished file the size it needs to carry full resolution. You will need to experiment with this to suit the resolution of your camera and the computing power your computer has when it renders the finished file.
Pages created in the above fashion will only show up as options in dialog boxes for printers that can cope with the physical size of paper needed to make a real print (for example, they are not available to the Brother HL-1110 in the above screen captures). All sizes are available with the Adobe PDF printer.
Your finished print file has the black pinline and the white border:
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Lightroom is known as or defined as the photo editing platform, where you can edit your pictures, and if you know well about editing then you can make your pictures so uniquely or nicely. And also the office of adobe Photoshop Lightroom is software for all creative images and also the organization, and you can say that platform or software can image manipulation. The importance of this is developed by the abode system that is part of the subscription family of the creative cloud. The license of this platform is in trialware. That software is written in C++ or Lua. That software was initially released on January 19, 2007. This platform helps you to import, organize, or find your image. This is the single tool of photo editing or you can say the photo management, which is the non-destructive photo editor that means you don't have to worry about the save button you can step wise step. This platform is now free to use on mobile, the android app is dropping its requirement for the creative cloud subscription. We must say the lightroom is much better than photoshop when it comes to editing on mobile that is much better than photoshop. By using the keyboard you can easily collect the image collection.
The tips about Lightroom:-
When the thing about the tips that are very necessary for Photoshop without Lightroom tips you can't edit your photo so nicely, therefore, you have to require the tips for the photo editing mainly there are 7 tips in lightroom.
° The white balance correct
° Adjust the shadow or highlights.
° Adjust the saturation and vibrance
° The contract the tweak
° To crop or straighten
° Burn and Dodge
° Remove the Dust particles.
This is the robust program that was developed for the photographer specially and also for the beginner too, hobbyist and professional photographer. They use Lightroom to organize or edit their image quickly and their effects. The organization is great or getting better continually for editing.
Is lightroom worth the money?
The review of the Adobe Lightroom as you will see them who take a lot of pictures and they need to edit somewhere then this is the best place for editing. This is well worth the $9.99 and also the recent updates or recent updates of the monthly subscription and also the creative more usable. So that is worth it, if you ask the professional then they tell you that the use lightroom, this platform used by them because that is used to clean up or adjust the photo, and to take a digital photo from the raw image of the DSLR to be framed then we used this to be beautiful or as look the picture so pretty. The presets work inside the lightroom and all the inside work of photoshop. Both the program is important in professional photography and all the editing all the workflow. The editing of the, however, this is the primary editing software of the choice both of the profession of the hobbyist alike. The presets of the feature in lightroom and all are filters on steroids. And all the presets and all the reasons many bloggers prefer them because that works very smoothly. If you have more control than starts like a filter but if you know this you can change everything.
What do you mean by Lightroom tutorials?
The Lightroom tutorials require or necessary because that gives instructions to the user. And the tutorial teaches you to control or edit in the best way and the adjust the color, crop or adjust of perspective or the selective way or the instant import or the other creators or the computer and the library use the same presets of the mobile the software of the photograph that enough function to the process and make this for the photographer easy. That is helpful for doing just three main things and sorting all your photos and the process. This is for the beginners from the start to the beginning. This is an important topic to learn, where you are just starting advanced together in the guide. We will feel free to the bookmark or that can be overwhelming and also the purpose of the guide and simplify as simply as possible. That thing of the lightroom helps to sort or organize the photo and that is located on your computer or appears on the left hand of the screen.
Summary
This platform is helping to improve your photo by adjusting the color place. Simply taking where your photos all are located through lightroom and many others of the organization. There are countless ways to do it. This is all about sorting the photos.
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