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Technique landscape ediTing Tips
From Lightroom to Luminar,JamesPatersonexplores someof
the finest options for processing and enhancing your raw photos
Boost your landsc
Six eSSential raw landScape editS in lightroom
Enhancing tones
Raw files can often initially look flat, but that’s
because you’re expected to make your own
enhancements. So to begin, try increasing
contrast, tweak shadows and highlights, boost
saturation and experiment with Clarity and
Dehaze. Here opening up the shadows
reveals greater detail in the rocks.
Crop and level
If, like the image here, the horizon is slightly
wonky then Lightroom can automatically fix
it with the Level button within the Transform
Panel. You might also want to crop the image
slightly. Lightroom offers various helpful crop
overlays that adhere to different compositional
rules. Hit O to cycle between them.White balance
With raws, you can set the white balance either
by choosing a preset, like sunny, cloudy or
tungsten, from the preset dropdown here, or
grab the white balance eyedropper tool from
the toolbar. With this, you can click on a neutral
point in the image, like a grey rock or white
wall, to remove any colour casts.