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How to Make Your Portraits POP with Lightroom. The other day I wrote this Lightroom tutorial on my blog . I thought I'd share it here and see if anyone finds it helpful. I'm using a quick photo I took as an example for importing photos into Lightroom. So I didn't get the exposure right and I didn't find the best direction for the light. As a result she is a little too dark, her eye sockets have a little more shadow than they should, and there isn't quite as much pop. But hopefully it shows some things you can do to "save" a photo. When editing a photo, there are a sequence of steps that I follow.

In order of execution, there are four key things to adjust: White Balance Highlights (White Point) Shadows (Black Point) Mid Tones Before you do anything else, it is important to set these properly. Here's our original photo: First up: let's set the White Balance. Second thing we'll do is dial in the highlights. I'll bring down the Exposure slider slightly just until I don't see any clipped highlights. OK. 22 Free Lightroom Preset Sources | Rule of Thirds Photography. Lightroom Loves Presets! UPDATE 1: Due to the popularity of our free preset list, we have dedicated a new page full of 39 more Free Lightroom Presets! UPDATE 2: Free Lightroom Presets (Part 2) can be found here. UPDATE 3: Complete .zip file of RoTP Presets: RoTP - All Presets (25873) Adobe Lightroom is so powerful that often times you can get away without editing your image in Photoshop! What makes lightroom even more deadly is it’s ability to completely change the look and feel of an image with one simple click of abutton.

Just click one of the many presets available! Lightroom comes built in with around a dozen, but there are many-many more out there! Presets might initially seem like a button that sits on the sidebar that’s “too good to be true”, but realistically it is the perfect start to professionally editing your image. 21 Free Lightroom Preset Sources: Of course the list would not be complete without our very own RoTP LR presets : (How to install lightroom presets are further down)

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Killer Tips. Some Of Our Top Lightroom Tips and Tutorials | Digital Photo Buzz - Digital Photography reviews and tips. Most of the questions that I get from our readers are relating to Lightroom. With so many people using Lightroom as their main editing software I have been focusing a lot of time creating tutorials and articles with Lightroom tips for everyone.

We have a lot of Lightroom articles now that many of you might have missed so I wanted to group together a list of some past Lightroom articles. I also have some pretty cool things I am working on in the future for Lightroom tutorials so stay tuned. Here is a list of 10 Lightroom tips and tutorials you might have missed. If you ever run into a Lightroom question let me know, you can always comment at the bottom of any post, connect on our Digital Photo Buzz Facebook wall, Tweet me @digitalphotobuz or connect with me on Google + Free Lightroom Presets for Photographers – Who doesn’t love free? 5 quick tips on Photoshop Lightroom – There are tons of ways to save time with Lightroom and this post gives you 5 quick tips.

Lightroom Training & Tutorials. Learning Center – Lightroom 3. Teaching Lightroom « Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider Blog » Photoshop & Digital Photography Techniques, Tutorials, Books, Reviews & More. When I’m teaching my Light it, Shoot it, Retouch it tour, I use Lightroom quite a bit during the day, and in one city one of the attendees came up and told me they had just bought Lightroom, and wanted my recommendations on where to go to learn Lightroom. Of course, I told him that we actually do a ton of Lightroom training, and he was like, “Really? I thought you guys just taught Photoshop.” I told him that Lightroom’s full name is “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom” and that Lightroom was part of the Photoshop family, and that we probably teach more about Lightroom than anyone on the planet. I gave him some ideas of what we do, but it really got me to thinking: If this guy at my live seminar doesn’t realize how much Lightroom training we actually offer, I wonder how many other people don’t realize all the Lightroom training we have available.

. (1) Our Lightroom magazine within a magazine! (2) We produce the free “Lightroom Killer Tips,” podcast hosted by Matt Kloskowski. Whew!!! Get Lightroom 3 Templates & Tips on Using Templates Effectively. 35 Adobe Lightroom Presets – Adding Professionalism to Photography. Lightroom is a very powerful image management application database from Adobe, it not only allows professional photographers to manage hundreds and thousands of images, it also allows you to to do high quality post production work, you can also create time saving preset effects that you can use over and over, or you can download some of these professional presets below, and really give your photo some life. 300 Movie Style 6 Black & White A preset that goes dark in black and white Get the CSI Miami look It’s time to get polaroided Playing with your holiday photos?

Don’t stop Get that 80’s look Intensify your blue heaven Vintage New York Look Polo / Ralph Lauren Style Focal Point for Landscapes Turn day into night Photos look great with Sepia Chic City Scapes “Frosty Season” makes your photos freeze 2 Polaroid presets Max Payne Movie Style Black & White Infrared Fake It Til You Make It Vintage Twist Warming Effect Solarize Effect Tonemapping HDR Photos Lightroom Preset Packs KRKPhotography Lightroom Preset Pack. PresetsHeaven | Your source to free Lightroom presets. Lightroom Training & Tutorials.