8 steps Lightroom to make beautiful photos

Lightroom is a powerful image-editing software that can provide more options than simply exposing and contrasting to handle a photo. Using Lightroom, you can make a plain picture fresh and use Lightroom to process photos much more conveniently than using Photoshop or other editing software.

This article will show you how to treat a relatively dull and boring picture as a piece of exquisite work. So if you're not satisfied with the photos you get directly from your camera, use a few simple lightroom tools to get better results. Also remember that post-processing is one of the creative tools that you need not to be completely authentic, but to make your photos look different.

First step

Choose a picture that's supposed to be good. This photo requires a good composition and attractive content so that you will be willing to take the time to deal with it. Here we use this very interesting picture of the sky, there are thick clouds in the sky, should be taken at sunset or at dawn.

Second Step

In develop (modified photo) (Translator Note: Parentheses are the name of the Lightroom 3 Simplified Chinese version, hereinafter.) module, first use the Basic (Basic) panel settings to globally adjust the photos. In this step, you focus on content that cannot be adjusted in the adjustment Brush (adjustment brush) and graduated filter (gradient filter) panel, such as blacks (black level), fill Light (Supplemental light Effect), Recovery (High-light correction ) and vibrance (brightness).

I'll pull the recovery (high light correction) slider to the right at least half (in this case, to the right), and then adjust the fill Light (the light effect) so that the shadow contains some detail. I also adjust the blacks (black level) to deepen the shadow, while also adjusting some other items such as exposure (exposure) and brightness (brightness) as starting work. The essence of these works is to adjust the contrast of photos and to correct the details of the high light and shadow. )

The above adjustment results are not fixed, if you find in the later processing of the effect is not satisfactory, you can come back to readjust.

Third Step

Now that we've done the global processing, we're turning our eyes to the photo part. There are 3 main parts-the cabin to the right of the photo, the lower left part of the photo, and the sky.

We start with the cabin, using the graduated filter (gradient filter), drag the partition line to select the lower right of the photo as the adjustment area, adjust the brightness (brightness), exposure (exposure) and clarity (clarity) to bring out the details of the screen.

Fourth Step

Use the same approach to the sky. This time from the bottom drag the zoning line, the sky selected as the adjustment area. Then lower the exposure (exposure) and brightness (brightness) and increase the detail of the cloud. Finally add a bit of contrast (contrast) and clarity (sharpness) and slightly yellow.

Fifth Step

Finally use the section line to select the lower left part of the picture, slightly yellow, reduce sharpness (sharpening degree) and clarity (sharpness), to this part of the details of the soft.

Here I may add a gradusted filter (gradient filter) to further reduce clarify (sharpness) softening details. The effect of the gradusted filter (gradient filter) can be superimposed, so multiple filters can be superimposed to enhance the effect.

Sixth step

After you finish processing in the graduated filter (gradient filter), go back to the Basic (Basic) panel and make some fine tuning to make the whole picture more coordinated. Here I adjust the brightness (brightness) and fill Light (light up effect) to slightly highlight the photo.

Seventh Step

In this step, I cut the photos and cut off the extra details on the right. The interesting center of this photo is the water and the cabin, and the details on the right are superfluous.

Eighth step

Finally, I used the adjustment Brush (adjustment brush) to make a little adjustment to the plastic box in the photo. Select it with a brush, slightly reducing exposure (exposure), so that it does not distract the reader.

At any time, I can review the processing I've done, including the graduated filter (gradient filter) and the adjustment Brush (adjust the brush), and adjust those settings if you want.

Not all photos can be handled like this, but most of them are possible. You should also have noticed that here I'm dealing with a JEPG format photo because the camera's internal program loses a lot of raw data when it generates a JPEG image, so the scope of the JPEG image can be handled much less than the raw format. (Translator Note: The most important use of lightroom is to process raw format files.) )