How to Quickly Give Your Photos More Punch Using Lightroom

Everyone loves a punchy, rich photo that leaps off the screen and immediately grabs your attention. They are not that hard to create, and if you are newer to editing, this helpful video tutorial will show you how to give your shots that look using Lightoom.

Coming to you from Omar Gonzalez Photography, this great video tutorial will show you how to make your images richer and punchier using Lightroom. The thing with any method that is meant to make a photo more contrasty and/or vibrant, particularly one that does so quickly, is that you will want to keep a close eye on just how far you are pushing things. It can be easy to take it overboard, and an oversaturated photo is the kind that can quickly turn off a viewer. The best method I have found to combat this is to simply finish editing a set, then walk away from my computer for a bit before I export the images. We often get a bit of tunnel vision during the editing process, and stepping away allows us to break that and for our eyes to reset a bit. I will often end up pulling back the edits when I come back to the computer. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Gonzalez.

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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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Seriously, if you are bothering to use lightroom for your images then you're not in a rush are you? Why is quicker always deemed better these days? What time are you saving? Also I would imagine anyone who is using lightroom to begin with will already know all of this basic crap, is he stick for video ideas? 'how to throw together a quick video when you've nothing planned' more like.

Literally anyone who has lots of photos to deliver. Also, Lightroom is the program for quickly editing masses of photos.

Thank you, Omar, for taking the time. Many of us appreciate it.

How about also giving us a text version? I'm often in a public place and want to be respectful of others and not play a video. Plus I can read 2-3 times faster than watch. Finally when reading it is much easier to re-read to understand the point. Thanks