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5 Best Ways to make your photos look better in Lightroom

Your camera doesn’t capture images, your passion capture images. If you have passion and knowledge about photography so you can shoot the best photos. During photo-shoots, you should have the main focus on your subject and focus on what you want to capture. But in the competitive age of digital technology, you should learn about how to make your photos look better. So for photo enhancing purpose many photographers use different software like skylum Luminar, capture one but adobe Lightroom is the gold standard. Lightroom is one of the best photo editing tool that allows photographers to convert low-quality images into amazing just in few moments. In Lightroom many modules have different functionality like map, book, develop and library, photographers used mostly module functions. Lightroom is one of the most used and popular platforms for editing photos. Editing is an essential part of photography; we must improve our editing skills as well. The tips mentioned here are splendid. I think they are perfect for beginners and simple editing. I loved the tips here.

According to my professional career in photography here I will share 10 best ways of how to make your photos look better in Lightroom.

1- Import to Lightroom:
It’s the first process of photo editing, after the completion of photoshoots now move images from an external source to into desktop and drag images that you want to edit into Lightroom. When you will add images into Lightroom there you will see develop panel now open this module and select your image into this tab. Here in this tab, your images are ready to edit.

What You Can Do Here with this Tab:
Exposure: Here you can convert images bit dark to brought up
Tone: Here you can adjust color and shadows balance
Sharpen: you can adjust sharpen according to your choice
Presence: This allows you to add saturation you can adjust saturates all colors equally

2- Correct White Balance:
In develop module at the top panel you will find a white balance adjustment tool. White balance is balancing white color in your photograph. It’s Depends on the photo temperature balance is adjusted. For example, if the temperature is high in Lightroom then you will get a yellow tint in your images. Same if you decrease the temperature in Lightroom then he will get a blue tint in your photo. This by varying the temperature slider in Lightroom you can adjust the white balance of your photograph.

3- Remove Dust Particles:
Dust spots on images are considered bad effects; with Dust Particles You can repair them right from within Lightroom. Move your photos into develop module and then select the spot remover tool with shortcut Key " Q " with this you can find and remove dust particles very easily.

4- Use Photo Filters and Effects:
Filters and effects module located on the right side that you can apply to your images. You can also apply multiple effects or single effects it’s up to you which types of results you want to get. With this mode you can adjust overall images effects, background, color effects and much more you can do.

5 Use Lightroom Presets
Mostly Lightroom presets are made by professional photographers that save your lot time. With these presets you can correct, sharpness to your images just within a few seconds. Using presets will help your work consistent and easy. There are endless verities of versatile Lightroom presets are available. These Lightroom presets can be used to improve the light, contrast, and tone of your photos.

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koriroro

Lightroom is my favorite app for photo editing. At first I had problems with understanding how it works and my photos were awful after editing. My friend recommended me to pass the lightroom course - iphotography.com/lightroom-course/ - which helped me to edit photos like a professional. I think it will be useful for amateurs as well as experienced photographers.

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orlygre

This post is so useful. I often use lightroom for editing my photos but not always it looks good. There are so many functions so I can't understand how to use them correctly for perfect editing