How to Edit Skies in Landscape Photos in Lightroom

The way you edit the sky can have a tremendous impact on not just the quality of a landscape images, but the mood it conveys to the viewer. Lightroom offers a lot of power and versatility for editing skies, and this fantastic video tutorial will show you how to take advantage of those capabilities to create better and more precise edits. 

Coming to you from Mark Denney, this great video tutorial will show you how to edit the sky of a landscape image using Lightroom. If you have not really dug into Lightroom's updated masking tools, you are really missing out. The masking panel has taken tremendous steps forward in recent iterations of the program, and it has made my workflow far more efficient and often, more precise. This has noticeably improved my output quality, simply because I can afford to take the time to perform edits that would have taken too long to be worth the effort before. Take an hour to play with it if you haven't familiarized yourself with it yet. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Denney. 

And if you really want to dive into landscape photography, check out "Photographing The World 1: Landscape Photography and Post-Processing with Elia Locardi." 

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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