How to edit your pictures with Adobe lightroom

I love warm pictures. I always use Adobe Lightroom to edit and enhance my pictures. However, manipulating your pictures with lightroom can be a hustle especially for beginners.

Let's be honest, oversaturated and too sharp pictures are out of fashion and against the law. They look unreal and socially unacceptable. 

If you want to know how to edit your pictures to perfection with lightroom, this one is for you.

When editing your pictures, always remember, the aim is to enhance the picture and still look real.

Here is our initial picture

Always make sure that your initial picture is bright enough and the background is clean. 

Under the light icon, here are some settings to play with

the exposure effect is dependent on the brightness of the initial picture. Please do not adjust it too much 

Under the colour icon, here are some settings to consider. The saturation depends on how clear your skin appears, so watch out not to over saturate 

At the corner right, under the colour heading, there is a colour wheel that allows you to play around with colours and enhance the appearance of your picture.

If you are wearing lipstick on your initial picture, turn down the hue for the colour red to make your lipstick pop

The colour orange (the colour next to the colour red) allows your skin to pop. It is similar to the saturation feature. To make your skin-pop make use of the colour orange

I think we should all make friends with the colour yellow because it has the biggest impact on our photos. It allows for a bright smile and a bright background. For this effect, turn your saturation down, but not all the way down, the picture will look unreal.

Under the heading details, here is what you should do. This is to smooth out your skin

 And after all these edits, here is our final product

this picture looks slightly different from the initial picture. Is less bright, warm and more enhanced than the initial picture.

Please note; under the colour heading, the green colour enhances the appearance of the tree, blue for the water and sky, pink and purple for the makeup.

Now let's edit a picture with green plants

when editing plants, under the light icon, reduce the brightness of the picture

do not touch shadows and blacks

Under white balance, use the saturation effect to enhance the colour of the plants

On the right corner, under the colour wheel, here is what you should do. On the colour green, but the hue on + 30 this is to make the plants look greener 

After all the editing, this is what the final picture looks like 

Please note. Your pictures should always look real after editing them and always make sure that your initial picture is bright enough.

With ligtroom, you can't use all the effect because this will just mess out your pictures. Always play around with the saturation effects but be careful not to over saturate.