Reply To: Ok, A Re-Edit of one of My Favs

[JanJan]

My original photo was a bit under-exposed and had some shadows, so the original edit was done in Lightroom. I’m new to Lightroom, but I’m proficient with Photoshop because of my full-time profession as a graphic/web designer. What I have been doing with Lightroom is just color-correcting, and then additional retouching in Photoshop (like removing items, trimming bodies, removing blemishes, stitching panoramas, etc).

So I pretty much already knew about masking, but I was hoping for a Lightroom “easy button”. LOL. I had other projects going on at the same time I was editing those pictures and just didn’t want to bother with Photoshop. I guess I was being lazy too. LOL. Here is the picture with an adjustment layer added in Photoshop, with the rocks saturated only: http://www.photosbyanjanette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/santosfamily2.jpg

My objective for photography is different. I am hoping to do this as a service for money someday, and I need to find an efficient way for production. I can go into a couple images  and edit them in Photoshop the way I did for this picture, but it’s not very efficient down the line if I have more clients. With that said, I try to make sure I compose my shots well enough where I don’t have to heavily rely on editing.

Take these examples, for instance. For this one of the girl in front of the Las Vegas sign (http://www.photosbyanjanette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/jae2.jpg), I only had to click on the Auto link to achieve this look, plus with very little tweaks.

For this picture (http://www.photosbyanjanette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/marc_anjanette_graffiti.jpg), I wasn’t allowed to do any heavy editing at all and just only subtle color corrections because it was for a photography class.