How I edit my photos in Lightroom...

[@sai_duggirala]

I have been obsessed with your edits for years, these walk throughs feel like a New Years gift!! And so refreshing to feel a real human in these videos. Quick question, the image looks different from when you were editing it in Lightroom to the final result you showed in Before/After sldies (less vibrant, less contrast, etc). I always struggle with this when i export from Lightroom- How do you get the export to really look like the edited image?

[@jordhammond]

So glad you enjoyed it, my friend! As for the edit, I noticed the difference you mentioned, and have a few theories as to how that could have happened: 1. I typically edit in a darker room, but as I was editing in a very bright room I may have misjudged the contrast/shadows. If that’s the case, I’d just drop the shadows/midtones to create the contrast seen the final result. 2. My Lightroom background (area immediately surrounding the image) is grey, whereas the ‘final result’ was displayed on a white background, with the latter naturally giving off a more contrasting look. Either way, I hope it was helpful, and I’ll aim to do the next in my favoured pitch black conditions 🫡

[@Helenemonblogdefille]

This is so interesting ! Thanks a lot Jordan !

[@jordhammond]

My pleasure!

[@shawneemills]

learned so much from this. Thank you! Hope you vlogged some of the Oman trip!

[@jordhammond]

I’m glad to hear that, and you are most welcome! I’ve been vlogging the trip here and there. First vid from Oman will is coming this Sunday 🫡

[@chopstix906]

I am so excited for this channel. I especially love the process videos in Lightroom so far since it's such a daunting tool for a beginner. One piece of feedback is I would love to hear more about WHY you are adjusting a certain setting vs just WHAT you are adjusting. I struggled with this same concept when learning guitar: There are 80 different knobs to turn and it's really difficult to know what small change on 1 knob is going to do to the total sound after you make changes to the other 79 knobs. I feel the same way with Lightroom.

[@jordhammond]

Might make another for this week’s video! Thanks for letting me know about that - I sometimes wonder that if I spend too much time explaining each adjustment, the video will be far too long. All about find a balance, so will keep it in mind for the next 🤝🏼

[@jakeshebitz]

I like the way you click those buttons.

[@jordhammond]

I don’t want no funny business here.

[@jakeshebitz]

@@jordhammond 🤐

[@RussWeymouthPhotography]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes to set the sliders to round numbers, e.g. +/- 50 🙂

[@jordhammond]

I’m starting to think we are the silent majority 🫡

[@wearetrackclub]

Love the look of your photos! This tutorial is really insightful, Jord! 👏🤩

[@jordhammond]

Why thank you!

[@Abe_Rudder]

Nice, that was a great tip with the first radial gradient using the color range to deselect the buildings. That's going to straight into my favorites.

[@jordhammond]

Glad this helped mate! Should come in handy a bunch going forward.

[@bayeyiven6741]

As a Chinese fan, I discovered your photos through a blogger's share on Douyin. I really like your style, so I followed you on Instagram and then subscribed to your KZbin channel. I really enjoy your tutorial videos on KZbin and hope to see more of them in the future. Additionally, I have a small suggestion - it would be great if your videos had English subtitles, as it's challenging to guess what you mean without Chinese subtitles, especially since I am Chinese.

[@sophiapope853]

Keep them coming 💕

[@jordhammond]

Tyvm more coming soon fam xo

[@fareezabdullah3298]

Please do more video like this! I love it! Your biggest fan from MALAYSIA!!!

[@jordhammond]

More videos like this coming real soon! Appreciate you 🫂

[@zeuslea1]

Thank you for the insightful information. Immediately learned settings I wasn't aware of.

[@jordhammond]

Glad to hear it mate! I’m curious, which settings were new to you? I could always cover them in more depth going forward.

[@zeuslea1]

@jordhammond I don't recall exactly. I saved your video so that I could rewatch with my lightroom open at same time. The setting where you straightened the buildings. Also, when you used the grid to adjust specific areas. So useful. Thank you again.

[@zeuslea1]

@jordhammond Oh, and the masking. I am very much a novice so I really appreciate the educational information you're providing.

[@nadavherman-buzzerbeater4469]

Love it! ❤ miss you broski

[@jordhammond]

Thanks brother! Miss ya, hope all is well with you and the fam 🙏🏼♥️

[@BraydonBrittian]

Great video Jord! I enjoy this kind of content, always something to learn from tutorials like this.

[@jordhammond]

Cheers brother 🤝🏼

[@leothecat8116]

Love this kind of tutorial ! It's incredible what a few minutes of editing can do !! Could you show somewhere the difference between the picture out of the camera, after this 15min editing session and what you would like this photo to look like if you took aaaaaall the time you usually take ? :) Love this content !

[@jordhammond]

Right?! With years of consistent editing practice it’s funny how far you can take an edit in such a short period of time, though I’d have to admit some photos are less complicated to edit than others. I have a before and after at the end of the video, and think if you were to see the ‘final’ edit it probably wouldn’t look so different to the naked eye 😂

[@cheezycheeder]

I love editing videos, this was super helpful!

[@jordhammond]

Glad to hear it! Got more lined up for the future 🫡

[@michaelboegl]

The numbers on the sliders need to end with a 0 or a 5. The only way to edit photos haha!

[@jordhammond]

Hard agree. One cannot simply adjust the highlights to -37.

[@slowlifeinbali]

Hey Jord, there is a new feature in LR where you can select the sky only, it works really well. Great video, love how natural and unstaged it feels. Following from Ubud 🙏

[@EnjoiRom1]

I’m curious why you’re not using the AI sky selecting masks. It would do a great job on an image like this.

[@jordhammond]

I find ‘AI Select Sky’ does a decent job with clearly defined skies, for example in cities or with a simple hill dividing the foreground and sky, but in this instance there were too many smaller details in the mid/background for the AI to precisely select the sky (bamboo poles, leaves, etc). When this is the case, I end up with an awful halo effect around many of the artefacts and end up having to manually adjust the mask. Just my experience, but in this case it seemed the linear gradient + intersected colour range did a great job in a very short space of time!

[@EnjoiRom1]

@@jordhammond Usually I intersect with a linear gradient when the limit sky / rest of the image is simple. Sometimes I use the brush when the forms are more complex. I'll definitely try your technic !

[@JasonLawrenceNoel]

Bro!!! Love the video thank you

[@jordhammond]

Glad you enjoyed, Jason!

[@qianfengwu7249]

I like your photos very much. Can you please post a video of editing in Lightroom and entering PS editing? I want to see how you edit such beautiful photos in PS. Thank you!

[@jordhammond]

Thanks mate! Of course, will work on a PS editing tutorial in the coming weeks. My PS process is fairly simple, much like that of my LR workflow 🤝🏼

[@BeanSingh]

Looks great mate ☺️🔥

[@jordhammond]

Thanks so much brother! 🫂

[@RistyPics]

Super nice edit mate. Enjoyed this tutorial, stoked to see more in the future!

[@jordhammond]

Cheers Kris! Only a quickie, but figured I can go into more depth with particular filters and Photoshop at a later date. Anything in particular you’d like me to cover editing wise?

[@RistyPics]

@@jordhammond I feel like it’s a good intro and with a Photoshop episode coming later it’s a more digestible format for newbies! Um ofc apart from your thought process in PS some insights into drone photography, how you go about editing those images would come in handy!

[@jordhammond]

I got u 🤝🏼

[@SuperSaeed4ever]

Great video jord! Would love to see a video on drone photography

[@jordhammond]

Thanks mate! Currently on my way to catch the sunrise, so will make a video about drone photography there 🫡

[@RyanCurran98]

Nice!

[@jordhammond]

Thanks Ryan!

[@kiwikea2002]

Great insight into your thinking process about how to edit - even if it was the "fast version". Becomes more important when you edit a series of connected photos towards common style. This was not the subject here, of course - but do you use presets to align photo styles? Thank you. I enjoyed this.

[@jordhammond]

Glad you enjoyed! I’m surprised I managed to edit/create a decent base layer for this image in such a short timeframe, though I suppose the conditions may have done the heavy lifting for me. I have a number of presets I use for photos I want to share on my IG stories/bulk editing client work - will be releasing them soon! Asides from that, I typically enjoy spending multiple hours with a single photo. It’s a (mostly) peaceful process 🙏🏼

[@alexisrateau]

Good job dude 👌

[@jordhammond]

Thanks brother. Only a quickie, but hopefully covers the basics!

[@MYoutube8]

Lovely to see you as a blackbelt messing about like any other.

[@jordhammond]

That’s basically all I do! The learning never stops.

[@harry_pope]

4 in the bag 🎉

[@jordhammond]

Who would have thought 😂 Appreciate all the help bruvva!