Outdoor Photography How To

Are you looking for a simple and effective Lightroom technique that will dramatically enhance images as quickly as possible so you can get back out in the field doing what you love most? If so, we've got you covered with today's game-changing tutorial from post-processing impresario Julienne Kost.

Last week brought you a short-and-sweet tutorial from post-processing impresario Julieanne Kost, explaining the simple process of using Photo Merge in Lightroom to create beautiful HDR images that would be impossible to capture in a single shot in the camera. Today she's back with another five-minute episode, demonstrating how to speed up the editing process by using the Quick Develop panel in Lightroom Classic.

If your outdoor photographs often have blown-out highlights, crushed shadows, or a combination of both, our guess is that you’re not using exposure bracketing to perfect exposure when shooting in difficult lighting conditions. The tutorial below quickly explains how it’s done.

There are a variety of reasons that outdoor photographs may appear flat and lifeless, even when a location is spectacular. Maybe you used the wrong camera settings, or perhaps the light just wasn't right. In either case, today's Photoshop tutorial demonstrates how to transform images from meh to WOW by employing easy-to-use Dodge and Burn tools during post processing.

Today's tutorial from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel demonstrates a powerful editing technique for precisely color-grading landscape images with Photoshop's Gradient Map tool. The technique is simple to accomplish and will work wonders for just about any photos you shoot in the great outdoors.

Are you familiar with Photoshop’s powerful Blend If tool and how easily it enables you to create outdoor photos with maximum impact? If not, you’re in for a treat.