Photo Eraser Tips

The frigid winter months provide an exceptional opportunity to capture unique photos, but they aren’t the easiest to create due to extreme weather conditions and the many post-processing nuances related to snowy winter photography. In this 14-minute video, I review 7 Lightroom tips that have helped me along the way with my winter post-processing workflow. 1. Change Your Background This tip actually has nothing to do with your image, but rather the canvas you’re working on. Right-clicking the background and changing the color to white creates a good reference point for absolute white and will certainly help you with the remainder of your edit. 2. Adjusting White Balance Adjusting the White Balance can be a tricky proposition due to the reflective nature of snow. If you use the eyedropper to target a neutral color (snow) this will almost always result in Lightroom over warming the photo. I’ve found that setting the white balance to Auto and then reducing the ...

In this video and article, I’ll share 10 helpful Lightroom tips that can improve your photo editing. #1. Auto tone in Lightroom The auto tone section Lightroom gives you is a really good start to your editing process in Lightroom. You don’t have to accept the results — just reset after but use it as a guide. #2. Angle tool in the Lightroom Inside the top tool, there is a little thing called the Angle Tool. Essentially it’s a line that you can draw along the horizon on any straight line and your image will be horizontally or vertically aligned. #3. Crop overlays When you are cropping, you don’t just have to have the simple grid as a guide. You can cycle through multiple overlays by using the ‘o’ key. It’s that simple. Press shift + o and you can rotate the overlays too. #4. Add focus using the Lightroom radial brush This one is pretty amazing. Just use the Lightroom radial bush and turn the sharpness down to -100 — this actually blurs the photo. Then paint out wh...

Understanding the difference between Lightroom’s Vibrance and Saturation sliders can dramatically improve your results when processing fall color photos Figure 1. A fall scene shot in the Eastern Sierras of California in June Lake loop. Fall is here, and that means that a variety of opportunities to photograph bright, colorful landscapes, vibrant close-ups and an assortment of saturated eye candy await. For many nature photographers, fall is the best time of year to explore color photography, but color does have its challenges. Processing fall color photos to bring out the natural beauty of the scene—without overdoing it—is one of those challenges. Mastering the subtleties of color takes time and study. Color photography is more complex than one might think, and to become well-versed in its practice, you need an understanding of color theory and color psychology. You have to become familiar with terms such as complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, dyadic and ...