Recent Lightroom Articles

The Art of Color Grading With Lightroom

Color grading in photography is a crucial skill that transforms a good image into a keeper. It's especially important for photographers seeking to achieve a harmonious balance between different areas within their images, enhancing both their aesthetic appeal and emotional impact.

Transform Your Photos with Lightroom's Split Toning

Lightroom has some advanced tools for realizing your creative vision, split toning being one of the most useful for landscape photographers. This fantastic video tutorial demonstrates how Lightroom's split toning tools can significantly enhance an image's visual appeal, offering a practical guide on adding depth and contrast to photos.

A Complete Guide to Mastering Lightroom Masking (Part 1)

There are a lot of great tools available for editing, and my favorite techniques tend to have large impacts for little effort. Lightroom's masking tool does this better than anything else I've ever used. This guide will teach you everything you could possibly want to know about Lightroom masking regardless of your skill level.

Mastering Tonal Adjustments in Lightroom

Turning a flat raw file into a visually appealing image with rich contrasts and vibrant colors is a critical skill for every new photographer to learn. The helpful video tutorial will show you how to get started with tonal adjustments in Lightroom.

Some of Lightroom's Best Hidden Features

Lightroom Classic is a surprisingly intricate program that, despite its widespread use among photographers, contains functionalities that often go unnoticed. For real estate photographers, and indeed for those in many other genres, mastering these lesser-known tools can significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of their workflow. This helpful video tutorial will show you several such tools.

Mastering Lightroom: How Masking Can Transform Your Edits

Masking is an essential technique for photographers aiming to refine their images with precision, affecting specific parts of an image without altering the whole. This excellent video tutorial will show you everything you need to know to get started.

Advanced Editing Techniques for Dramatic Skies

Knowing how to efficiently make a precise sky selection is crucial to taking better control of your landscape photos. This fantastic video tutorial will show you how to create better sky selections in Lightroom.

What Features Is Lightroom Missing?

Lightroom has made some significant steps forward in recent years, but there is always room for improvement? What would you like to see?

Streamline Your Photo Editing Workflow in Lightroom Classic With These Tips

Editing photographs, particularly in bulk, can often be a time-consuming endeavor that tests even the most patient photographers. Recognizing the importance of efficiency is crucial. Lightroom Classic offers features designed to streamline the editing process, a boon for professionals and hobbyists alike who seek to maintain a seamless workflow that doesn't waste their time, and this helpful video tutorial will show you how to take advantage of them.

Mastering the Art of Masking in Lightroom

Masking in Lightroom is a crucial skill for photographers aiming to refine their post-processing techniques. The program's powerful tools enable photographers to make selective adjustments that can transform the quality and look of their photos, from subtle enhancements to dramatic changes.

Do This To Get Perfect Prints

Some time ago, I wrote an article about soft proofing in Lightroom and Photoshop. It's an essential step in any professional printing workflow. Today, I show the additional steps required to create perfect prints.

Mastering Color Correction in Lightroom: A Sunset Editing Tutorial

Understanding how to manage challenging colors in Lightroom is a vital skill for photographers, particularly when dealing with vibrant scenes like sunsets. Knowing the right techniques to enhance and balance colors without losing the essence of the shot is crucial for creating a polished final image.

Choosing Between Lightroom Classic and Cloud: A Beginner's Guide

Understanding the different versions of Adobe Lightroom is crucial for beginners to make an informed choice that suits their workflow. Adobe offers two primary versions: Lightroom Classic and a newer, cloud-based Lightroom. Each has distinct features and functionalities, impacting how you can manage, edit, and output your work.

Advanced Editing Techniques in Lightroom and Photoshop

Transforming an ordinary photo into an extraordinary one using post-processing tools is a skill that defines a capable photographer. This helpful video tutorial will show you some useful techniques to create a compelling edit.

How to Create Dreamy Light for Landscape Photos in Lightroom

In the realm of landscape photography, post-processing can transform a good image into a great one, and that means mastering tools like Lightroom is essential. This helpful video tutorial will show you a useful technique for making dreamy light in a landscape image using the program.

Lightroom Classic: Essential Customization Tips

Understanding the nuances of Lightroom Classic can significantly streamline a photographer's workflow and open up new creative possibilities. In an era where workflows demand both creativity and efficiency, mastering modern editing applications becomes indispensable. This is especially true when considering the software's vast customization options, which can significantly enhance a photographer's editing process.

Clarity, Dehaze, and Texture: Mastering These Lightroom Tools

Mastering the nuances of photo editing can transform an average image into an extraordinary one. In photography, the ability to subtly manipulate elements like clarity, dehaze, and texture is fundamental to enhancing image quality and bringing a creative vision to life.

One of the Least-Known but Most Useful Sliders in Lightroom

Lightroom is an intricate program with dozens of controls, and among all those options, a few hidden gems are waiting for you. This excellent video tutorial takes a look at one of the least-known but useful sliders.

Crafting Misty Landscapes: A Guide to Artificial Fog in Lightroom

Creating artificial fog in Lightroom Classic offers photographers another tool to enhance the mood and depth of their images. This technique is particularly useful for adding a mystical or ethereal quality to landscapes, elevating the visual narrative of the scene.

Lens Blur and Point Color: Lightroom's Useful New Tools

Post-processing tools are always evolving, and Lightroom has added some tremendously useful options in the past few years. This great video tutorial takes a look at two of the newer features, Lens Blur and Point Color, and how you can use them for your images.

A Beginner's Photo-Editing Workflow in Lightroom

Understanding the raw editing process is fundamental for any new photographer, both to produce polished images and to establish a consistent and repeatable workflow. This helpful video tutorial will show you a four-step process for editing your photos in Lightroom.

The Power of Dodging and Burning in Landscape Photography

Dodging and burning, a technique widely used by portrait photographers, is also highly effective in landscape work. This technique, traditionally associated with Photoshop, can significantly alter the visual impact of an image. However, many photographers may not realize that this method can also be done in Lightroom, and this excellent video tutorial will show you how to do just that.

A Beginner's Guide to Tone Adjustment in Lightroom

Mastering post-processing tools like Lightroom is as crucial as capturing the perfect shot, and it often starts with the tone sliders. This helpful video tutorial will show you everything you need to know get started.

Awesome Lightroom Technique to Add Atmosphere

In this article, I show you an awesome Lightroom editing technique you can use to add atmosphere to your photos. If you take this method to the extreme, you can even turn a normal day into a foggy scene. It works well for woodland photos.

A Treasure Trove of 70 Tips and Tricks for Lightroom Users

Understanding the nuances of Lightroom is crucial for photographers, as it not only refines their work but also streamlines their workflow. If you are new to Lightroom, check out this incredibly comprehensive video tutorial that will show you 70 tips and tricks for editing your images in the program.

Three Ways to Emphasize Your Subject in Lightroom

Lightroom has become an impressively capable editing application, and you can easily use it to process a lot of photos without heading over to Photoshop. One of the most important skills a photographer needs is the ability to emphasize their subject, and this great video tutorial will show you three different ways to do that in Lightroom.

You Must Know This Lightroom Tool

Over the past years, Adobe has introduced many great tools to Lightroom. Some of them came through major updates, while others went nearly unnoticed. In his video, Greg Benz shares one of the lesser-known additions to Lightroom.