Use THIS LIGHTROOM TRICK to add DEPTH to your Photos

This way you can create depth with a little bit of Lightroom Masking!
If you want to follow along this Lightroom tutorial, download the raw photo here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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0:00 Intro
0:24 Basic Adjustments
2:16 Adding Depth with Masking
8:00 Color Grading
8:55 Sharpening
9:19 Cleaning up the image

[@scandinavianthinking1251]

Christian, This is a wonderful illustration of the depths in the photo, focusing on darkening the foreground of the fields, and the upper part of the sky, by means of increasing shadows and whites while decreasing exposure and blacks. Your inspiration is brilliant! I am grateful to you! I just think of landscape photography time selections, such as before or after the sunrise, or in the sunset, or at any time during the day. Also about the camera aperture selections, for example, this photo, whether or not, it cloud be 11. Thank you very much for your concerns!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much for the kind comment, really happy you liked the video! I hope this will be helpful for your future editing workflow!

[@Mattn2552]

Excellent tutorial as always! Such a great channel!

[@rgarlinyc]

Wonderful end result - I cannot argue with anything you did here, I think your edits were perfect!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thanks a lot!

[@Andi-Vee]

Thanks for those tips, I will definitely apply it into my real estate photography! The sky is a little bit too dark for my taste, but separating the layers this way makes a lot of sense. Thank you!

[@dennisjones3016]

You are the master of masks. Thank you!

[@ashittandon9301]

Christian, absolutely loving your channel. Have been binge watching your Lightroom tutorials the last 2 days. Thank you so much

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much, that means a lot to me!

[@combatwombat71]

Great video Christian! We are on the same wavelength when it came to 'removing distracting elements' - you removed the exact same two things I could have done too :-)

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much for commenting! These two things were really destroying the otherwise calm scenery :-)

[@samelogio7441]

As always, another wonderful edit. Thank you Christian.

[@hareontherun]

Ich benutze Camera Raw statt Lightroom, man kann das ja nahezu 1:1 übertragen. Auch ich schaue mir jeden Tag mindestens ein Video von Dir an, weil sie mich in der Software selbst weiterbringen. Das Erkennen freilich, was zu tun sei, das muss man mitbringen. Aber es ist wirklich hilfreich nach ca. 20 - 30 "Möhrle-Anwendungen", eine Art Fragenkatalog zu entwickeln, die man durchgehen kann um zu checken, was nötig ist und was nicht. Wirklich eine große Geste, dass Du den Menschen Deine Fotos überlässt. Vielen Dank dafür! Gruß aus Berlin!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Vielen lieben Dank für den netten Kommentar, freut mich sehr zu hören wenn meine Videos anderen bei der Bearbeitung helfen können!

[@deadhead1973]

I know more or less all tools and procedures in ACR or Lightroom, but this beautiful use of a combination of masks on a specific example is just perfect. Great video.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you!

[@Billma48]

Just found you this morning. I can see we are going to get alone just fine. I have been using Lightroom for years. I have learned some new things from you already. Thanks!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

That is great to hear, thank you so much!

[@michaellanoue9156]

Great job. From blah light to dramatic. Very good tutorial.

[@wilfriedklein6066]

Klasse Christian. Wie immer bewundere ich Deine Masking skills👍

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Vielen lieben Dank!

[@andreachierici5745]

Due to work commitments I missed some tutorials. This is really helpful! Thanks Christian

[@TrogART]

Interesting, been using Lightroom for ages and quite a few new features I really had not noticed or have utilised to there full potential, thanks!

[@JohnJohnson-bo5sv]

very cool. I was hoping next time you go through the Details panel you might explain more what is happening and what Radios is what we are looking for when we hold the Alt key and slide the masking slider. thanks.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much! The radius defines the area around an edge that will get sharpened, so 0,5 means lightrroom will sharpen 0,5 pixels around edges which results in suuuuper 'fine' sharpening!

[@PeterbFree]

Always very informative and engaging, thank you Christian

[@janosjulianes3006]

Thank you - very helpful 👍

[@MrSimonj1970]

Excellent - I learned a lot! That line in the field was annoying me so much, I'm glad you fixed it at the end lol! vielen dank.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Haha it was reaaaally distracting!

[@brianmaguire845]

Superb Christian. I've only recently discovered your channel and it is already my favourite. Clear practical tuition.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much!

[@xad0]

Thannk you Christian ! This video includes a lot of tricks to reuse ! Very useful !

[@InekeSchreiner]

Thank you Christian. I learn so much from you.

[@aloislemberger8365]

Thank you,Master of masks!

[@gamers_spot]

Great as ever

[@robertleem5643]

Many thanks for sharing and making this video, it's these videos that help a lot when it comes to editing similar photos, it looked so much better

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much, very happy to hear that!

[@ChantalDeVos]

Thank you Christian

[@womenhealers]

Really excellent tutorial. Thank you!

[@ErikBongers]

I also like the unedited version. Different style, but it works for me.

[@juanbon5996]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@VladimirDanilov]

Hi, Christian! May we ask you to hide the "Filmstrip" bar on your videos in order to get a larger view of the image??

[@ErnestoFunesto]

amazing work

[@ashittandon9301]

Thanks!

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you so much for supporting my channel!

[@mustafapehlivanli4357]

well done great video

[@josecarlosmora9318]

Gracias.

[@Fawziya.48]

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[@atephoto]

Love it

[@mariolombardi4766]

Christian, excellent! Question you added a significant amount (90) of sharpening. I thought this was unusually high. Especially since you did not mask the sharpening out from the sky, I thought maybe you wanted the sharpening in the clouds. And especially if you’re going to just use the edit for posting on the web. Any thoughts on sharpening this image would be appreciated. Thank you.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Hey, thank you for the comment! I love addings larger amounts of sharpening for web uploads and I think it works great coupled with masking. I do think I masked out the sky for this image as well, maybe I did cut away that part by accident when I worked on the video (I usually mask out the sky but maybe keep in some clouds for sharpening)

[@shahzadphotography2254]

❤

[@leef3167]

I love your videos. Is there too much magenta or purple in the sky? I would crop out the sky a bit, jmo.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you very much! I dont think there is too much purple in the sky, but I could have brought it down a little for a cleaner blue

[@krishnachaitanyagorantla]

Nice edit! What does radius do under detail section?

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Thank you! The radisu defines how many pixels around an edge will get sharpened. So 0,5 means, 0,5 pixel around and edge will be sharpened in this case

[@mikeleiter1233]

I can’t save or print a photo that I have added masks too. LRC saves & prints the original photo w/o the masks. Any recommendations, great video as always.

[@ThePhlogPhotography]

Hmm that is really strange, I never encountered any problem like this... Not sure how to help you, but you might want to take this to the Adobe Community Forums. Im sure there will be someone with a solution to this problem!

[@wudl83]

Karl Möhrle am Saxophon.

[@Xerxesro1]

The sky is obviously overcooked