Photoshop How To

Autumn is less than a month away, and in some parts of the country foliage is already beginning to change colors. The beautiful warm tones of fall are one reason that many landscape photographers are eagerly awaiting the coming season.

There are numerous reasons you may want to adjust or change the color of objects in your images. Maybe a model's dress clashes with the background, or perhaps you're shooting seascapes at golden Hour and the warm light biases the tones of the water. The list is almost endless.

One of the most difficult challenges when photographing landscapes is balancing the wide range of tones from deep shadows to bright highlights that often occur in outdoor scenes. In fact, sometimes the density range is so great that’s it’s impossible to precisely exposure the image.

Serge Ramelli is a master of landscape photography and a master of editing images in Lightroom. Put both those two skills together and you have the below video where Ramelli shows you four ways to edit photos in Lightroom.

At one point, Adobe's Lightroom software was new to all of us and, to be honest, we made a few mistakes. That's fine. The idea though is to not keep on repeating those Lightroom mistakes, which brings us to Photoshop guru Lucy Martin's super helpful video below.

For all its photo editing and organizing power, let's face it, Lightroom can be a real drag to use. Consequently, we're always looking for easy ways to speed up Lightroom, so we can spend less time processing our images and more time shooting them.

Ok Lightroom users, do you fully understand the difference between color grading and color correction when editing your photos? If you're not completely sure, the video below from the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom channel will straighten you out in a hurry, while demonstrating a quick and easy color-grading method for enhancing tonal effects and vibrance in Lightroom.