Post-Processing Tips for Beginners

This page contains a collection of our articles on Post-Processing for Beginners. These beginner tips should hopefully help our readers to enhance their knowledge of photography and get the best out of their equipment. If you do not know the difference between Lightroom and Photoshop, see our Lightroom vs Photoshop article. If you are wondering about whether to choose Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, check out our Photoshop vs Photoshop Elements article. Lastly, if you are confused between Lightroom and Photoshop Elements, check out our Lightroom vs Photoshop Elements article.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

Mastering Lightroom Series

1. What is Adobe Photoshop Lightroom?
2. How to Use Lightroom – A Complete Tutorial for Beginners
3. Lightroom Catalogs Explained
4. Lightroom Modules Explained
5. How to Remove Modules in Lightroom
6. How to Import Photographs
7. How to Avoid Duplicate File Names
8. Lightroom Library Module Overview – The Left Side Panel
9. Lightroom Grid View Options
10. Lightroom Loupe View Options
11. Library Module Overview: Image Review and Toolbar
12. 5 Simple Lightroom Tips You Might Not Know About
13. How to Get Accurate Nikon Colors in Lightroom
14. How to Get Accurate Canon Colors in Lightroom
15. How to Get Accurate Sony Colors in Lightroom
16. How to Get Accurate Fuji Colors in Lightroom
17. How to Create a Lightroom Develop Preset
18. Lightroom Lens Corrections Explained
19. Branding and Customization
20. Basic Post Processing Workflow
21. How to Use the Basic Panel
22. How to Use the Tone Curve Panel
23. How to Manage Presets
24. Using Filename Template Editor
25. How to Use the Graduated Filter in Lightroom (Video)
26. How to Use the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom (Video)
27. How to Use the Spot Removal Tool
28. How to Use the Spot Removal Tool in Lightroom (Video)
29. How to Create a Lightroom Snapshot (Video)
30. How to Use Virtual Copies
31. How to Use External Editors
32. How to Enhance Landscape Photos
33. How to Use the Radial Filter in Lightroom
34. Post Processing Portraits
35. How to Geotag Photographs in Lightroom 4
36. How to Tether Your Camera
37. How to Add Film Grain
38. How to Split-Tone Photos in Lightroom
39. How to Create a Panorama in Lightroom
40. How to Fix Panorama Merging Errors
41. 5 Tools You Might Not Be Using in Lightroom
42. High Contrast B&W with Lightroom
43. How to Create an HDR Panorama in Lightroom
44. JPEG Compression Levels in Photoshop and Lightroom
45. How to Make Sharp Watermarks in Lightroom
46. Adding a Splash of Color With Your Post-Processing Tools
47. Lightroom 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and CC Performance Comparison
48. A Few Different Ways to Adjust Image Brightness

Workflow

1. What is Photography Workflow?
2. How to Organize Photos in Lightroom
3. How to Optimize Lightroom Speed and Performance
4. Photography Backup Workflow
5. Lightroom Import Settings
6. How to Significantly Reduce Your Backup Needs
7. Efficient Lightroom Workflow for High Resolution Images
8. What is a 30 Bit Photography Workflow?
9. Photography Workflow – Year-End Activities
10. Integrating JPEGmini Pro to Lightroom Workflow

Software Reviews

1. Best Non-Destructive Editing Software for Photography
2. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Review
3. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 Review
4. FastRawViewer Review
5. ACDSee Pro 8 Review

Other Lightroom Articles

1. How to Upgrade Lightroom
2. Lightroom Process Version
3. Most-Used Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts
4. How to Crop in Lightroom and Why
5. How to Avoid and Reduce Noise
6. How to Convert Portraits to B&W with Lightroom 4
7. Lightroom Dodging and Burning Tutorial
8. Selective Color Correction in Lightroom and Photoshop
9. How to Reduce Moiré in Lightroom
10. Sharing Lightroom Catalog with Multiple Computers
11. How to Properly Resize Images in Lightroom
12. How to Watermark a Photo in Lightroom
13. Photo Noise Reduction Tutorial
14. How to Properly Sharpen Images in Lightroom
15. Advanced Post-Processing Tips: Three-Step Sharpening
16. How to Enlarge Photographs for Printing
17. Landscape Photography Post-Processing Tutorial in Lightroom
18. How to Make the Sky Blue in Lightroom
19. How to Fix Blank Images in Lightroom
20. How to Use Perspective Corrections in Lightroom and Photoshop
21. How to Simulate the Orton Effect in Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop

1. How to Remove Moiré in Photoshop
2. How to Blend Multiple Exposures of Cityscapes
3. Photoshop Layers and Layer Masking for Beginners
4. How to Properly Resize Images in Photoshop
5. Using Content-Aware Fill Non-Destructively in Photoshop
6. How to Stack two Vertical Images in Photoshop
7. How to Brighten Eyes in Photoshop
8. How to Whiten Teeth in Photoshop
9. How to Smoothen Skin and Get Rid of Blemishes
10. Portrait Editing – Before and After
11. How to Add Frames to Photos in Photoshop
12. How to Take Black and White Pictures
13. Fixing Partly Underexposed Images in Photoshop
14. What is Color Banding and How to Fix It

Other Articles Related to Post-Processing

1. Introduction to Image Cropping
2. How to Deal with Post-Processing Pains
3. Turn Your Photo Into An Artwork
4. Editing for Your Audience