Easy Basic Editing in Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a great software for photographers to start with, and a good start point to turn over your photos from a pale and flat to a perfectly edited with only few basic tools.
Lightroom can do more than just basic color correction, you can turn photos into dramatic ones.
I use Lightroom with almost every photo before I export it to Photoshop.
Anyways, Let's do these few steps to turn over your photo;
Into the " Develop " section you gonna find " Basic " Panel, do the following ;
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaaqdR25DS97OFhmBqqrUAWYk8sJWnMcQnqk5AHUntPuDOgHmqHUJrXfGxDCwwdupzwsdKvdyqL62B7VHMzUrEdTuK4hHkmSnmDEItPau3RIrkWtYAl0lEtwxhscjaiwyYi7xhzgIun1U/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.38.06.png)
Step 1 : Exposure
increase to give your image more light. for below photo i preferred +1.26
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3FU6Scgqr1O9yZIElXPIfQNv5cK8z2JP5bo-dXDdjX0Q6vLHzKgPJIAQJcPeGVKomQeNiWRmIG1FyF1dYXkvIEUh-x4FzwY8kNGxtV5T_FQ-Co8uw18hSfbaEU5i8_e4f7f-8UmytXQ/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.38.38.png)
Increase a bit, for me I don't like the black areas to be so black but I like the photo to be well contrasted. +22
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYo17qvECjh2XGF81773WbneKM2aN5Ymhuqq1pZBBHvwf15QV8N_PvXmx6BrXHfhqZ4eOkkiyiVfsNro3ccUuRO3ils5hXWkYA1XkSGM4QTBZmJ1Bud4O053SBfOZ65XX2wIbBDtUJxk/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.38.50.png)
For the highlighted area. sometimes highlights kills details, so my settings is -13 .
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqXNfuMtpZKqJyQWcMvQOzbDucnG8aqi2Aq0NsgU22Q8dFpJnMoU7mXaif2Z_ktFRVncTwqYHh1WkUg2ZuRUkjf9xulXSzASJOIFoiupIaLEyAxrOti7NRHXmQETrt-d9zlH7GbW_wzE/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.39.06.png)
Step 4 : Temp (temperature )
To add warmness (yellowish) or coldness (bluish ). I added warm tune +16
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveYFS5UBFv1AZvRFT5SxB8iee1iFuI2oz57fntPZ8-sfUHVFH-ffX-XsrM6AeMw2BtIHeuB9uAzZE3jRNPX02VxLA6FArwuC0CIb0j8crKRmjs28hSdt_lQBrBDo4wlinBO3kBx82ZZo/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.39.19.png)
When ever I add warmness to the image I increase tent a bit because I feel it turns a bit greenish so increasing tent add a bit red tone. +24
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-IuKBFfBpZxjxb6Q1SrT4Hrl0okGSNOWjEgF2NbuBnDKwK07aL_hQFrJ3AKwfFc82Hj3QIj64aiDpexweSi5CaNVnqwlr0lYSbDZU3WrsnGmj1Ao38IUqiHKtNoclge1cz6hx_1MUz4/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.39.48.png)
And that's it ! We're done !
Any question ! ask in a comment .
Lightroom can do more than just basic color correction, you can turn photos into dramatic ones.
I use Lightroom with almost every photo before I export it to Photoshop.
Anyways, Let's do these few steps to turn over your photo;
Into the " Develop " section you gonna find " Basic " Panel, do the following ;
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaaqdR25DS97OFhmBqqrUAWYk8sJWnMcQnqk5AHUntPuDOgHmqHUJrXfGxDCwwdupzwsdKvdyqL62B7VHMzUrEdTuK4hHkmSnmDEItPau3RIrkWtYAl0lEtwxhscjaiwyYi7xhzgIun1U/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.38.06.png)
![Rose Bullet - F2U! by Drache-Lehre](http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/022/b/a/roseredbullet_by_drache_lehre-d5sdfix.png)
increase to give your image more light. for below photo i preferred +1.26
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb3FU6Scgqr1O9yZIElXPIfQNv5cK8z2JP5bo-dXDdjX0Q6vLHzKgPJIAQJcPeGVKomQeNiWRmIG1FyF1dYXkvIEUh-x4FzwY8kNGxtV5T_FQ-Co8uw18hSfbaEU5i8_e4f7f-8UmytXQ/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.38.38.png)
Step 2 : Contrast
Increase a bit, for me I don't like the black areas to be so black but I like the photo to be well contrasted. +22![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYo17qvECjh2XGF81773WbneKM2aN5Ymhuqq1pZBBHvwf15QV8N_PvXmx6BrXHfhqZ4eOkkiyiVfsNro3ccUuRO3ils5hXWkYA1XkSGM4QTBZmJ1Bud4O053SBfOZ65XX2wIbBDtUJxk/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.38.50.png)
Step 3 : Highlights
For the highlighted area. sometimes highlights kills details, so my settings is -13 .![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggqXNfuMtpZKqJyQWcMvQOzbDucnG8aqi2Aq0NsgU22Q8dFpJnMoU7mXaif2Z_ktFRVncTwqYHh1WkUg2ZuRUkjf9xulXSzASJOIFoiupIaLEyAxrOti7NRHXmQETrt-d9zlH7GbW_wzE/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.39.06.png)
![Rose Bullet - F2U! by Drache-Lehre](http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/022/b/a/roseredbullet_by_drache_lehre-d5sdfix.png)
To add warmness (yellowish) or coldness (bluish ). I added warm tune +16
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhveYFS5UBFv1AZvRFT5SxB8iee1iFuI2oz57fntPZ8-sfUHVFH-ffX-XsrM6AeMw2BtIHeuB9uAzZE3jRNPX02VxLA6FArwuC0CIb0j8crKRmjs28hSdt_lQBrBDo4wlinBO3kBx82ZZo/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.39.19.png)
Step 5 : Tent
When ever I add warmness to the image I increase tent a bit because I feel it turns a bit greenish so increasing tent add a bit red tone. +24![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM-IuKBFfBpZxjxb6Q1SrT4Hrl0okGSNOWjEgF2NbuBnDKwK07aL_hQFrJ3AKwfFc82Hj3QIj64aiDpexweSi5CaNVnqwlr0lYSbDZU3WrsnGmj1Ao38IUqiHKtNoclge1cz6hx_1MUz4/s1600/Screenshot+2014-07-16+20.39.48.png)
And that's it ! We're done !
Any question ! ask in a comment .
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