How to Improve YOUR Photo Editing in Lightroom | 5 Tools to Use

A simple editing guide of 5 Lightroom tools I wish I knew about sooner. Once I discovered these 5 tools my editing drastically improved and to demonstrate their usefulness, I’ve selected some images from my archive that are terrible!

I went through my old photos and specifically chose images that I didn’t edit at the time of taking them because I couldn’t get them to look the way that I wanted them to, but with these 5 tools I’ve managed to create some photos from ones that I thought were useless.

If you can learn these 5 Lightroom tools you will be able to recover a lot more of your images! I give some simple Lightroom editing tips for beginners because I wish I knew these when I first came to editing my photography.

00:00 - Introduction

The 5 tools I talk about in this video are:

01:26 - 1. Crop Tool
Surprisingly underused as people are worried about losing pixels, but unless you are planning to print your images the size of a wall, the crop tool can be very useful to reframe and recompose after you have taken the image.

07:30 - 2. HSL Panel
Selecting colours and editing them individually can really help your photography, if you are having problems with the saturation slider then you need to look at the HSL panel, you can also use this panel to give your images a certain style by emphasising certain colours in your composition

11:25 - 3. Brush tool
By far the most important tool in this tutorial because you are moving away from global edits to targeted local adjustments and that can really make your images stand out, by using this masking tool you can target specific areas to make your subjects stand out or darken areas that are distracting, there are endless possibilities to what this tool can accomplish

17:37 - 4. Gradient filter
Just like the brush tool infinitely useful, but where the brush tool requires you to paint it into a specific area, the gradient tool applies the settings to a block of the image depending on where you position it

21:50 - 5. Luminance masking
This is an advanced technique in photoshop that requires extra software but in Lightroom it is really easy to use and it helps you target areas of your image based on their brightness, or even their colour, and allows you to apply a brush or filter to that area only

With these 5 tools my editing has greatly improved in the last few years and if you are struggling with Lightroom editing then I hope that these 5 tools will help you to improve your editing.

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