Lightroom can help you take photos of travel scenery in one minute.

Photographic equipment is not the key to the quality of photographs. Friends who like photography can have a look. How to grasp the beautiful scenery at any time? Lightroom can help you take photos of travel scenery in one minute, and beautiful works can be easily done.

Post-digital technology

Don't worry about buying better cameras, lenses and other equipment. Let's learn how to save these photos quickly through simple digital post-processing technology.

Seaside scenery

Take a very common seaside scenery film as an example, let's take a look at the power of Lightroom in dealing with these photos.

Open Lightroom and import photos that need retouching. (Don't import photos? Hurry up and study hard. After importing photos into Lightroom, you will realize the powerful photo management function of this software. )

First, analyze the photos and find the problem.

This is a photo taken on the beach. Usually our impression of the beach is blue sky, white clouds and sea, and warm sunshine, which looks clean and transparent. Moreover, this original film, as a whole, looks gray, the blue sky is not very blue, and there is no feeling of sunshine warmth. The most unpleasant thing is that there is a large area of black on the right side of the picture, which affects the transparency of the whole picture.

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Turning the above straightforward description into an operational idea is that photos need to strengthen the overall brightness and contrast and highlight the dark details. Strengthen the saturation of blue sky and yellow sand beach.

(Every time you want to adjust a photo, you must first find the problem, clearly adjust your thinking, and then start to adjust. Never add or subtract a parameter, which is euphemistically called "finding a feeling". )

2. Enter the photo modification module, first find the lens correction panel, and check Enable side correction. Quickly correct lens distortion and dark angle, and click automatic, horizontal and vertical adjustment. This step usually needs to be completed in each photo. This can help us get normal photos without distortion. (Students who don't use Zeiss lens are strongly advised to remember this operation, hehe)

Lightroom processes photos.

3. There is no color cast in the photo. Don't adjust the color temperature first, adjust the overall brightness first, and observe the histogram. You can see that the whole photo is a little gray, but the bright part is not bright. First, strengthen exposure and contrast.

Original photo

Lightroom histogram

Lighting room tone

Make the whole photo brighter.

4, the photo has no color cast, do not adjust the color temperature first, first adjust the overall light and shade. As I said before, the photos of the beach are more suitable for the feeling of transparency. Observing the histogram, we can see that the whole photo is a little gray, and the bright part is not bright enough. First, strengthen exposure and make a little comparison. Make the whole photo brighter.

Original picture of seaside scenery

Lightroom adjustment histogram

Lightroom overall effect processing

To adjust the overall brightness, you need to first analyze what tonality the content of the photo is suitable for. If your photo was taken at night, you may need to adjust it in the opposite direction.

Lightroom processes photos.

Lightroom original photo

How to adjust the tone of Lightroom

5. After adjusting the overall brightness with exposure, you can use the following four parameters to modify the brightness of details, increase highlights and white * * *, and further brighten the bright part of the photo, which will make the picture more breathable.

6. Next, adjust the dark area. In the photo, the forest is dark and there are no details. Let the photos lack the feeling of sunshine and look unclean. Strengthen the shadow and black * * * order value to make the dark part bright. Pay attention to the histogram and don't let the dark parts be completely lost.

Lightroom handles the rendering of seaside scenery.

Color histogram of lighting room

Lightroom improves the clarity of photos.

7. The next step is the most commonly used step of retouching landscape films-enhancing clarity. In the usual aesthetic feeling, clear photos will look better than unclear photos, and increasing clarity can quickly make photos beautiful. Be careful not to add too much clarity, or the photos will look dirty.

A clear photographic work

Lightroom improves clarity.

There is another problem. Increasing the definition is actually changing the local light-dark contrast of photos, so usually after enhancing the definition, we will go back and fine-tune the above parameters.

8. After the previous adjustment, look at the histogram and see that the histogram has been completely adjusted by us, which means that there is no problem with the brightness of the photo, but it still feels gray. This problem is usually due to insufficient color saturation. So we raised the parameters of brightness and saturation. Photo Lima is like a photo studio.

Gallery photo effect

Original seaside landscape map

Lightroom increases the hue value.

Usually, landscape photos are beautiful in bright colors unless you want some special emotional atmosphere. (Let's talk about some common styles and colors later. )

A basically completed work

Lightroom tone processing

Lightroom saturation processing

Lightroom brightness processing

9. Finally, according to the specific content in the photo, use the HSL panel to adjust the colors respectively. For example, in this photo, the sky is not blue enough. Select blue in the HSL panel to make it more pure. Strengthen the yellow of the beach.

10, when we take photos, we usually take many photos in the same place. In this way, we can adjust one of the photos and synchronize them with Lightroom, so that all the photos can become beautiful quickly.

Light box synchronous operation

Import a batch of photos into Lightroom, first select the adjusted photos, and then select other photos (I take two photos as an example). Click Synchronization in the lower right corner and select the parameters to be synchronized according to your own needs. Then click OK.

Lightroom batch processing

Then 1 sec, so the photos are all beautiful.

Lightroom parameter setting

Very suitable for lazy people like me, haha. But as a reminder, it is best to check every photo after synchronization. Usually, the color and brightness of each film will be different to some extent, so there will be photos with big differences that need to be fine-tuned manually. The same parameters cannot be applied to all photos.

This is also the reason why I have the biggest headache for others to ask me for a preset. Don't be lazy, Lightroom is very simple to use, so make a preset that suits your photo quickly.

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