10 Adobe Lightroom Classic Photo Processing Tips

Whether you're just getting started with Adobe Lightroom or been using it for years, there's always something new to learn. In this video, I walk you through 10 of my favorite photo processing tips techniques to help you improve your editing skills.
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[@LuckyPiano]

Having watched lightroom tutorials for years, I’m always skeptical about these “top 10 lightroom tips” videos. Sir, this was so useful. Hats off to you!

[@Symeeen]

Ive said it before and I will say it again; the quality of these videos is insane.

[@ZOly62]

Good tips, it`s pleasure to listen your EXELLENT presentation. ⌚️Timestamps 00:27 Tip #1 Lens correction first 01:43 Tip #2 Use B&W when editing exposure 03:40 Tip #3 Create baseline snapshot 04:58 Tip #4 Use negative Clarity and Dehaze 06:48 Tip #5 Reverse vignette 11:17 Tip #6 Use Before/After hotkey 12:04 Tip #7 Use RAW Defaults 13:46 Tip#8 Create smart collection for HDR images 15:27 Tip #9 Make smaller curve adjustments (with Alt key) 16:10 Tip #10 Better sharpening

[@melissahall7009]

Love these videos!! These videos are helping me tremendously. Best ones I’ve found.

[@johnkasza4024]

Thanks for all the tips. Very useful and great video.

[@bywayz]

Todd, if it's helpful to folks whose images often include a lot of sky ... I often apply negative clarity (i.e., diminished clarity) with the brush or gradient tools to soften the look and eliminate graininess. I find it can help with large areas of solid color (e.g. skin and autos) as well. It also has helped with scans of old slides.

[@tylou4479]

Fantastic tips!

[@odyssey570]

Thank you so much Todd for your great guidance. I'm a serious amateur who has been learning Photoshop for about 15 years for photo editing and enhancing. I'm fairly good at it, but very slow. I've never used Lightroom, but am asking Santa (wife) for a one year subscription. I've looked in great detail at a few of your tutorials. They are wonderful, both the information and your presentation. In this tutorial I really love your metaphor of "reverse vignetting" for subtly bringing attention to the central parts of a scene through the use of negative de-hazing rather than using exposure and highlights. It's perfect!

[@charleskear9530]

Learned a lot.

[@DrDryce]

Amazing content, hope your channel will get the deserved recognition soon

[@user-fm5cs4ix9k]

Hello from Kyiv Ukraine. Great video. I took away a few tips and I have been using Lightroom for a few years. Thank you

[@kemerthomson]

I watch a LOT of processing videos, and of course many are excellent. But I find yours to stand out on quality, pacing, and the fact that you explain your thinking as you go along. And I did pick up a couple of tips and a number of reminders on this one. All these years I have ignored snapshots to the point I didn’t even see that panel anymore. Your reminder was worth the “price of admission” by itself. And your vignette technique using negative Dehaze is both clever and effective. This reminds me why I’m reluctant to switch to Capture One, which your videos make a compelling case for: not because once couldn’t do the same thing there, but because my years of LR usage makes it easier for me to absorb.

[@dominey]

This means a lot to me - thank you. Concerning LR + C1, I think it's best to use whichever tool you feel most comfortable and "in control" of creatively, cause at the end of the day it's the image that matters. :)

[@beck2929]

This channel makes me wanna sit with a scotch while I play around with lightroom and smoke a cigar

[@dominey]

Sounds lovely!

[@Tunesmithnw]

Thanks for the tips, especially the ones about creating the non-sharpening preset and the sharpening masking. Very helpful.

[@Mike.WiLL9239]

Thanks for the great tips!! Picked up some good tips here that I will use in my editing process.

[@mikemengli6279]

thank you so much for providing such solid and continuous knowledge for us ( your students:) ),feel lucky to find you

[@dominey]

Here are timecodes in case you'd like to skip around. 0:28 Lens Corrections First! 1:40 Use Black and White When Editing Exposure 3:40 Baseline Snapshot 4:55 Negative Clarity and Dehaze 6:45 Reverse Vignette 11:15 Before/After Hotkey 12:03 Raw Import Defaults 13:45 Smart Collection for HDR images 15:25 Smaller Curve Adjustments 16:05 Better Sharpening Also...quick footnote on my first tip about Lens Corrections (I cut this out for time). Even though this function "corrects" a photo, that doesn't mean you should always use it. Sometimes distortion and vignette compliment the subject of a photo, so don't feel like you have to always turn it on.

[@niclaspersson3306]

Todd - Great value in this video. Informative and crystal clear as usual. It’s an complete pleasure to be given your thoughts on this matter. Thanks so much for your time and effort- You make a great difference.

[@dominey]

Thanks Nicals. :)

[@snoopaka]

Great tips. Thanks

[@chabaryanhotmailcom]

Most of these tips I’ve never seen before. Thanks for sharing. Learned a lot.

[@dominey]

Music to my ears! You're welcome Ryan.

[@JayKerr]

Another great video! Like others, I learned several new features in Lightroom. I can't believe I didn't know about the before/after hotkey. I found snapshots to be really useful, and b/w for editing exposure? Of course! Thanks Todd. This was very helpful and easy to follow.

[@dominey]

Thanks Jay. Enjoy that before/after key! It’s awesome.

[@fabioschack]

Your voice is so great lmao

[@rgarciamainou]

Hey, catching up with your channel. Good video. I like your way of explaining things. On tip #10 I was hoping you’d get more deep into Details and Radius, two sliders that usually get overlooked in tutorials.

[@SteveHiemstraAKAspeg]

Do these settings and shortcuts apply to the mobile version? Like the sharpening on import or alt key for sharpening?

[@anthonyjagodnik1241]

Well done and very helpful! The picture you used as an example reminds me of Antarctica, where we took >10K pictures that i am working thru while learning LR. Where was it taken?

[@dominey]

Anthony Jagodnik Thanks! Photo taken in Lofoten, Norway

[@gordonbrown5865]

Re: Lens Corrections panel at the bottom of the development panels: The order of the panels can be rearranged. Here's one of several videos about how to do it: lightroomkillertips.com/how-to-organize-lightrooms-develop-panel/