This will bring back any details in the darker regions that were lost while increasing the shadows. Reduce The Blacks, Increase The Contrast And Clarity:ĭrag the blacks slider to the left to add some contrast to the image while keeping an eye on the histogram. Dragging the shadows slider to the right for this image has brought out so much details from the darker foreground areas. This will however make some images look a bit washed out. To retrieve details from the darker regions, you will need to to increase the shadows. If you have darker regions in the foreground or shadow regions in the image for examples mountains, dragging the shadows slider to the right will help you retrieve details from the darker regions.
In this image, you can see that dragging the highlights slider towards the negative side has brought out details in the sky without affecting other details in the image. Here is another image to show how some details can be brought into the sky by just dragging the highlights slider to the left. I have decreased the highlights in the image to bring some textures and details in the sky and clouds. This helps with recovering details from very bright regions in the sky, especially adding texture and details to the clouds. This adjustment will affect the brightest tones in your image. To get the details and textures in the clouds, you will need to decrease the highlights. Dragging the “Highlights” slider to the left lets you get as much detail in the sky. This can be slightly adjusted any time to suit the mood you are looking for in the image. I would like the image to be a bit warmer. Make changes to the temperature and tint slider to get the desired mood in the image. In this case, make use of the white balance panel to get the white balance right. Most of the time, if you do not use the correct white balance settings while shooting, your image may look too cold or too warm and sometimes with weird tints. I have straightened the horizon, cropped the image, applied lens correction, increased the exposure a bit and sharpened the image. With some basic changes made to the image, you can see that it is starting to get better. These values depend on how much sharpening you need for your image. Again pressing the alt tab, adjust the radius and detail in the “Detail” panel. A good tip would be to press the alt key and use the masking slider to choose how you want the sharpening.
In order to illustrate this process, so that you get to see how a dull image can be turned into a striking image in a matter of few seconds, I will be using the image below, to start with. Quickly dragging a few sliders should be able to get you better images, but bear in mind – start with a raw file.
There are ways to rectify these issues in Lightroom and in this article, we will look at some quick and basic Lightroom edits you can make to improve any landscape image. Well, if your answer is yes to all or some of the above questions, do not worry. Have you come across situations like these? Your landscape images look very dull and seem nothing like what you saw on location? The sky could be too bright with no details, the foreground too dark and the image as a whole looks boring with no colour or contrast?
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