Lightroom Editing Made Easy

Abdstrong takes us on a journey through his editing process

Raw vs Edited Image

Amazing, isn't it?

Do you want to find out how to do this yourself?

Then keep reading to see how our photographer transformed the raw image into the final image using Lightroom.

What is Lightroom?

Adobe Lightroom is the go-to photography processing program for many photographers. It is a versatile program where you can do many different edits and so accessible that you can organize everything within the program. 

 In this issue, a well-known member of the Shutter Junkies Photography Club would show us how to edit using Lightroom.

The Photographer

AbdulQowiyy Dtaofik, popularly known as Abdstrong is a Final Year student at FUUNAB. He is an amazing and creative product and food Photographer who has worked with many brands including Pedis shoes, Gliterateferrae, Kwenu, Baytulhijamah, Tent wellness , Mjk skin care, Nanz skin care , Fola beauty skin care, SMD.

Visit his Instagram page to see more of his work.

The editing process

Abdstrong: 

Today I'll be showing you how to edit on Lightroom; don't worry it's pretty simple and straightforward, so let's get right to it.

The raw image is shown above and for the final image I wanted the focus to mainly be on the scrub, the color and how it's pouring out of the container.

The first thing I did was to adjust the size using the Crop Tool so I straightened the image and chose a frame of 4×5 and saved.

Crop

Next up, the light.

I was aiming for a very bright image that would enhance the colour of the scrub so I went to the light tab and moved the slider underneath "Exposure" to 1.10EV, "Contrast" to 46, "Highlight" to -23, "Shadow" to 24, "Whites" to 11 and "Blacks" to 10.

Color 

Using the Color Tool, I increased the temperature slider to 4750K, the tint to 10 and Vibrance to 73 to make the pink color brighter and decreased the saturation to -30.

Details 

To get a very detailed image, I increased the sharpening in the details tool to 86. Lightroom has this very cool feature/ tool called Healing Brush. It is used to erase unwanted things/ mistakes in the background so I used it to erase the stains and crease on the backdrop.

Healing Brush

And viola! Here is our perfectly edited image.

Lightroom may seem impossible to master, but if you experiment with the sliders and practice editing regularly, you'll get the hang of it in no time.

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As Abdstrong said, keep shooting, keep editing and most importantly, remember to have fun during the process. 

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