WHY USE ADOBE LIGHTROOM IN EDITING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS??

Hy my name is Mwinyi Athman and I am a portrait photographer.Since I started using Adobe lightroom for editing,my editing skills has increased and clients have increased making me grow big. I'm a portrait photographer I'm always in the need to color correct and edit photographs to make them more cinematic  and lightroom made it easier.

Panels in lightroom cc

Adobe lightroom is a perfect software for editing since it comes with panels where it allows one to white balance in the basic panel,to edit using the tone curves,to increase the details and also noise/color noise reduction in the detail panel,lens correction,transform effects and camera calibrations.this enables the editor to work on each panel differently without interfering the other adjustments to the photograph.

Taking good photos is quite easy but you may not be satisfied with the background if it looks boring. This could be because the photograph looks too obvious.Adobe photoshop lightroom,comes with a color correction panel where one can color correct making the photograph more sensational. Lightroom has tools for correcting color not just across the entire image but also for correcting individual color.its in the hsl column where one can edit the hue of the photograph,the saturation of the specific color and luminance to give the edited picture a cinematic look.In the picture below it shows a before and after color grading the photograph giving it a cinematic look.

before and after

  

Presets I created while using lightroom

The software also allows one to use presets.A preset is a configuration of settings, designed to achieve a certain look or style of your photo. With just one click on a preset, your photo can be altered to have a film look or to achieve the tones you desired.on an article written by be art presets,he highlights that  It allows you to spend less time at the keyboard editing your photos while enhancing the quality of your work.lightroom also allows you to save your presets and use it anytime.it has easen the work done while editing making it editing simple faster and easy.

To conclude adobe lightroom is a great software that has the ability to bring out your photo editing skills in a creative and easy way.it has ease my work and recommend you to start using it