At times we have photographs that are not properly exposed throughout the image. Regardless how smart and sophisticated camera systems have become lately, there seem to always be a way for them to get tricked into metering incorrectly. Or it could just be a simple mistake by a photographer. Either...
Post Processing Category Archive - Page 16
The Best Post-Processing Tool
I often get asked if there is a certain way of achieving a particular look in a photo. How to make colors and people "pop"? How to properly color correct? How to make the skin blemish free? While there are lots of different ways to post-process photos using tools like...
Selective Color Correction in Lightroom and Photoshop
In my previous Lightroom Dodging and Burning Tutorial I chose a photograph that had multiple issues. I addressed most of them in that tutorial but specifically left out one major issue (which was quickly discovered by one of our readers) to be a subject for fixing selective color in Lightroom...
Lightroom Dodging and Burning Tutorial
This is a simple tutorial on how you can utilize Lightroom tools to Dodge and Burn selective areas of a photograph to your liking without using Photoshop. During the process I will also go through some simple steps to show how you can enhance an image directly in Lightroom. I...
Sharing Lightroom Catalog with Multiple Computers
If you have more than one computer at your home to work on your photos with Lightroom, you might be wondering if there is a way to share your Lightroom catalog, so that you can work on the same images with the same catalog on multiple computers at once. Unfortunately,...
How to Use the Tone Curve Panel in Lightroom
In this short tutorial I will show you how to use one of the easiest and most powerful tools found in Lightroom - the Tone Curve. In my previous tutorial about black & white conversions, I briefly showed you how to use the HSL Panel's Luminance section to control the...
Branding and Customization in Lightroom
Lightroom is an amazing program with a myriad of great features to improve the look of your photographs. In addition to all the image editing and cataloging tools, Lightroom also has some cool built-in features to make it a little more personal. In this short tutorial, I will show you...
How to Use the Basic Panel in Lightroom
Lightroom has many features that can easily confuse those who are new to it. While the program offers plenty of different editing opportunities, in order to achieve the best results and user experience, it is important to understand the very basics of Lightroom. In the series of upcoming short articles,...
How to Convert Portraits to B&W with Lightroom
In this tutorial I will show you how to convert a portrait (shot in RAW format) to a black & white image using Lightroom 4. By the end of the tutorial, and with some practice, I hope to teach you how to have full control over the look of your...
How to Properly Resize Images in Photoshop
If you like sharing your photographs online, whether on Facebook or on your own blog, you should learn how to properly resize your images in Photoshop. While your camera can take very high resolution photographs, it is always a good idea to down-size or "down-sample" those images, not only because...