

Sometimes you have a gorgeous beach photo with turquoise water and a blue sky. The above photo also shows an example of editing the water in the photo. Example of brightening a harsh blue sky #6 Editing Water in Your Photos Bringing up the luminance will brighten the sky while bringing down the saturation removes the color from the sky. Adjust the color to get the color blue you want and then play with saturation and luminance to brighten the sky. You can also go into the HSL/Color options and go to the blue color (not the turquoise one). Bring the highlights up to lighten a darker sky and make it not as harsh of a blue. Bring the highlights down to darken a sky that is too bright or slightly blown out. If you need to adjust the blue for the sky, start out adjusting the highlights. If you are shooting in more harsh sunlight or if you have a beach photo with turquoise water in it, you may want to lighten the blue of the sky some. Example of my before and after tan #5: Adjusting the Blue in the Skyĭepending on the time of day, the sky can be either a very dark blue or a very light blue. I also tend to decrease the saturation just a little bit and to increase or decrease the luminance to get the right level of tan for the lighting in the photo.
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Be aware of other parts of the photo that are impacted by your adjustments to your skin tone though.įor my skin, I typically shift the orange hue slightly to the red side. Your skin may have more reds or yellows, so play around and see what works. If I adjust the orange hue, saturation, and luminance, I can adjust my skin’s color in the photo. I’m olive skin so my skin typically falls into the orange tones. It won’t be hard to figure out once you have a photo of yourself in Lightroom. Start out by learning your skins undertones. Photos sometimes wash out your skin tone, so presets and Lightroom editing can give you a tan if needed. I try to travel to tropical destinations and warm destinations as often as possible, but sometimes my tan needs a little help. As you brighten colors, it also brightens the overall look of the photo #4 Adjusting Skin Tone in Lightroom

You can always come back and adjust it more later. Make small adjustments in exposure as sometimes adjusting the other settings may brighten or darken the image as well. Since some presets already have adjusted the exposure to fit the creators typical shooting style, you may find that you need to brighten or darken them once you apply them to your photos. Even if you shoot multiple images in the same location, you might find that different exposures are needed as the light changes. This is because the light and the settings will be different. You will pretty much always have to adjust the exposure for every photo whether you use a preset or not. Once you let go, the photo is automatically straightened for you. This ruler lets you click a spot and drag it across the line that should be level. Then go into the Crop Overlay again and click on the Straighten Tool (to the right of the word “Angle”). This ensures you know exactly what you are working with for Instagram. Start by cropping your photos to a 4 x 5 or 8 x 10 portrait size. In the moment of shooting, you may not have realized that the camera wasn’t quite straight, but don’t worry. Sometimes you find a great photo you want to use only to realize the horizon or another equally important horizontal line is crooked. Example of a slightly underexposed photo before and after editing #2: Crop & Straighten Horizontal Lines Personally I find shooting slightly darker makes it easier to edit it later and brighten it up while saving the colors and brighter parts of the photo. You can’t recover the data if a part of the image is blown out or completely blacked out, so you want to keep an eye on both ends of the spectrum. You don’t want it to be too dark, but make sure the brightest part of the image isn’t washed out. Shooting in Lightroom Mobile if you use your phone gives you this option.Īlso, try to underexpose your images just a little bit. RAW gives you more power in editing to process the photo and get it to turn out how you want it to look. First, always shoot in RAW when shooting with a camera. Before you even get into editing in Lightroom, there are a couple of things you can do to make it easier to edit your photos.
