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How To Create A Painted Look For Your Images In Lightroom

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Today let’s look at creating a painted look for your images in Lightroom. You can even save this as a Preset if you wish. I’ll be showing you how to create your own Lightroom Presets at the end of this tutorial. Ok cool, so let’s get cracking. First, let’s find ourselves a good landscape scene if you don’t have one from your own library. I get all my images from free stock sites such as pixabay and pexels. And here we go, I have my image. So get set up and import your image. If you don’t know how to do this take a quick look at this  Lightroom Tutorial on the basics . By now you should have your image up and ready to go. Ok, now we are going to run through the first few things I generally do with every single image that I add to Lightroom. It’s my basic editing workflow just to start off with. Drop Highlights to -100 Increase Shadows to +100 Remember to use your judgment here. If it doesn’t look good and starts to look a bit underexpos...

Crash course: for Complete Beginners

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Never used Lightroom but want to give it a spin? Here are the basics to get you started Adobe has been at the top of its game for over 25 years now, so much so that the brand’s most famous software has entered everyday language. But it’s Adobe other major image-editing program that has arguably seen a bigger rise in popularity over recent years, due both to its ease of use and its ability to organise your workflow.  What is Lightroom? Adobe Lightroom is a Raw image-conversion software for Macs, PCs and some tablets that does so much more than just enhance your photos. Don't worry if you've never used Raw – you can also use it to edit JPEGs. The current Lightroom Classic CC version is available via  Adobe’s Creative Cloud subscription service , which means you can get the latest and constantly updated versions of Lightroom and Photoshop for one monthly fee. Unless you’re intending to dramatically manipulate your images, or add stylised filters, you can gen...