EDIT YOUR PHOTOS LIKE A PRO USING LIGHTROOM

Hello everyone, today I want to share how I use and edit photographs using Lightroom. I'll walk you through. knowing a few simple tools can help you understand the basics. 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 easen my work and recommend you to start using it.

Before and After being edited

First I import the photographs. After importing the photographs in lightroom, I simply start going to the right side and start editing the image. Basically I start with the basics panel and make little changes. It is mainly used making blacks blacker (or lighter), whites whiter (or darker). For example in this photo I lowered the contrast highlights and whites. I upped the shadows and the blacks a little bit. This settings can change depending on the photograph being edited.

Clarity takes the mid-tones of an image and enhances them, bringing sharpness to a photo and increasing the texture found there. The vibrance and saturation they both work to increase and decrease the intensity of colors in an image, but whereas saturation simply increases the intensity of all colors simultaneously, vibrance increases the intensity of muted colors.

On the tone curve panel I adjust the RGB mode. In this section I will only change the RGB, the red channel and blue channel. When you add one node in the middle of the curve and raise it, you're increasing the value of the specific channel (i.e. red green or blue) for every pixel in the picture.

On the HSL/color panel, I use it for color correcting editing each color on its own. HSL is a powerful color grading tool that targets specific hues in an image. For correct use of this panel,you have to understand each section.
Split toning allows you to add one color tint at a certain saturation level to the highlights and another at a different saturation level to the shadows. In this section you create the mood of the picture.

After adjusting the slip toning I move to the detail channel. It contains both sharpening and noise reduction tool which allows one to enhance the photograph by fine tuning it in an efficient way.

Detail panel

The camera calibration tab/ panel provides controls that are meant to be used to micro adjust and tune camera raw's color interpretation for a particular image. Adjusting the hue values especially can make a massive difference in the right way.

From there your image is edited and ready to be saved.

After editing

You can save the edits as a preset and edit your photograph by just one click. It takes you less time to edit your photograph using a preset.

Thanks for your time and for that here is a free preset for you.. URS PHOTOGRAPHY preset