Quick Lightroom Tutorial - Edit With Me

in #photography7 years ago

How to get to this

from this?

First steps:

  1. I started with the basics. Raised the temperature a bit, the presence and created a nice contrast.

This is the result after the first step.

Already so much better, isn't it? Now let's play around with the tone curve, shall we? What I really enjoy doing is lifting the blacks - this will give it that 'film look'. After that, make a nice 'S' curve.

The tone curve is easier than you think. Just play around with it until you get the result you were looking for. This is wat I came up with:

Now let's play with colors.

And split toning.

For final adjustment I raised the exposure just a bit.
The big reveal: