Today, I’m sharing some before and after examples of images that I edited in Adobe Lightroom Classic. I’ve been using Lightroom as my primary editing program for about a year now. It's a desktop program that also organises all your photos on your computer. It’s definitely my go-to program for punching up colours, making dull-looking shots vibrant, removing distracting objects and straightening skewed shots.
Those of you who can’t be bothered with lugging your computer out everytime you want to edit a photo, and would rather have an on-the-go available anywhere anytime approach, there’s Lightroom. For an app, it’s pretty amazing!
Hopefully, you’ll get an idea of just some of the things you can do with this Lightroom. For each Lightroom before and after example, you can see the straight-out-of-camera RAW image alongside the final edit.
My big advice though, for curating eye-catching images, is to take the very best possible shot you can so that you need the least amount of editing. This will make the whole editing process so much easier. Check out my blog posts on Let’s Go Manual - Part One and Part Two to help with this.
And, finally - if you find yourself with too much time on your hands, I have one word - PHOTO EDITING! (yes, I know it’s two words!)
DARK AND MOODY FLORALS
lightroom edits:
Decreased the exposure in the background (incleased blacks and decreased whites) to hide the unsightly leaks of light in the top right hand corner. Can you see them in the top left hand photo? I had to get rid of those, didn’t I? I guess I could have cropped them out, but I wanted a portrait pic with a bit of height.
Cropped and straightened the images
Increased exposure and saturation only on the flowers
Increased the red hues to bring out the colour in the flowers
Some sharpening to the flowers
Increased clarity to the vase
LEAFY REFLECTIONS
lightroom edits:
Corrected the white balance
Increased the exposure
Added some sharpening to the mirror and plant
Cropped the image
MUSHROOM MADNESS
lightroom edits:
Increased the exposure in the mushroom
Increased sharpening and texture in the mushroom
Added a hint of red hue to the gills and increased the vibrancy
Decreased exposure in the background to highlight the subject (in the solo mushroom)
Vignette applied to darken the edges
light and bright floral
lightroom edits:
Corrected the white balance
Increased the exposure
Added a bit of orange hue to the flower
Increased the saturation just a tad
a pair of pears
lightroom edits:
Cropped the image slightly
Increased exposure
Increased the texture and the sharpening just a touch
Spot edited the marks on the pear using the clone tool
sweets on show
lightroom edits:
Used the selective tool to increased the exposure a tad on the main subject and the background leaves
Increased the texture and the sharpening just a touch
Added a bit of pink hue to the flower
rosy rosé
lightroom edits:
Corrected the white balance
Increased the exposure
Cropped and straightened the image
Increased the clarity in the glass
Used the selective tool to increase the sharpening of the glass