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15 Snazzy Lightroom
Before and Afters
by Rob Lim
Lightroom will surprise you.
Hi there, were
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Many photographers see it as a tool for

basic adjustments, like exposure, white
balance, and contrast, but think that
creative processing needs to be done in
Photoshop. Once you really dig into
Lightroom, however, youll see that you
can do so much neat stuff, it may just blow
your mind.
Weve been using it as our primary editing
program for a couple years and it still
regularly amazes us! So weve thrown
together 15 snazzy examples to show you
just how much creative editing you can do
using only Lightroom!
If you enjoy this blog post youll probably
like our Before/After video tutorials.
Heres a sample video from the
Before/After: Black & White video
tutorial. The tutorials include about 10
videos just like this one:
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Note: All of these have had the colour

balance adjusted, some had tone curve
adjustments, and some had profile
corrections. The creative editing has been
described after each example to give you
an idea of how to achieve the look
yourself! These are all processed fairly
heavily, so you can see how much can be
achieved. Make sure to edit to your own
unique tastes!
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COPY R IG H T 2014 P H OTOG R AP H Y CONCE NTR ATE
1. Frost Branch
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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
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Basic adjustments increased

exposure, contrast, saturation
Split toning aqua shadows, low
saturation purple highlights
Vignette applied to darken the edges
2. Twilight Seagull
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Cropped to square
Basic adjustments increased
exposure, fill light, brightness, contrast,
clarity, and saturation
Split toning warm highlights,
cool shadows
Slight sharpening and noise reduction
3. Cattails
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Cropped to square
Basic adjustments Increased
brightness and contrast
Hue and saturation have been
adjusted to bring out the warm tones in
the stalks of the cattails and the shift the
color of the water.
Split toning warm highlights
Sharpening
4. Graphic Flower
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Cropped to square
Increased clarity
Saturation of purples increased and
hues of purples shifted to red to bring
out the color in the flower
Split toning teal shadows and
warm highlights
5. Sunset on
the Amazon
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Cropped to square
Large increase in contrast
Split toning This image is a great
example of how adjustments under the
split toning panel can produce dramatic
results. Because this image had a lot of
darker tones, and sunsets often vary in
color intensity, by changing the colors of
the shadows you can change the color of
the sky quite a bit. This image could just
as easily be intensely golden, or nearly
blood red just by changing the shadows
slider. I used a warmer tone for the
highlights to retain the typical colors of
sunset around the sun.
Sharpening and noise reduction
6. Yellow Wildflowers
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Cropped to square
Recovered highlights
Slight increase to brightness
and contrast
Split toning cool shadows and
warm highlihgts
7. Peruvian Catch of
the Day
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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
Cropped to square
Basic adjustments recovered
highlights, increased fill light,
brightness, clarity, and global saturation
Saturation Increase saturation and
luminance of oranges and yellows to
bring out the color of the fish
Split toning blue shadows
Vignetting
8. Spikes
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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
Cropped to square
Recovered clipped highlights on
flower leaves
Increase contrast and clarity
Split toning warm highlights and
cool shadows
Sharpening Because this image was
cropped so much and the detail of the
flower was important, careful
sharpening has been applied
9. Wildflowers
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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
Increase contrast and clarity
Variety of hue adjustments mainly
shifting the blue color of the flower
to purple
Split toning warm highlights,
cool shadows
Sharpening
10. Cliffs of Miraflores
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Custom cropped to better balance the

composition and remove the foamy
water at the bottom
Increased contrast, clarity, and
global saturation
Split toning blue shadows,
warmer highlights
Slight sharpening
This image also has a combination of
graduated filters and adjustment
brushes. The graduated filters were used
to darken the sky and the adjustment
brush was used to brighten the cliffs and
add a bit of contrast.
11. Sunset Surf
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Cropped to square
Increased fill light, contrast, clarity
and saturation
S
plit toning pink shadows
Sharpening
12. Santorini
LIGHTROOM TIPS:
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Increased brightness, contrast,

and saturation
Saturation Adjusted the blue to
darken the sky. Adjusted hue to slightly
change the color of blue
Split toning warm shadows
Sharpening
13. Greek Port

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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
Reduced exposure
Increased contrast and
global saturation
Saturation increased the reds to
bring out the reds in the cliff and the
blue to enhance the water.
Sharpening
14. Clouds Over
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The Volcano
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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
Increased exposure, blacks, contrast,
clarity and global saturation
Adjustments to hue, saturation, and
luminance in order to bring out blue
and oranges
Split toning cool shadows and
warm highlights
Vignette
Also used the adjustment brush to
brighten some of the volcano island
15. Green + Blue
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LIGHTROOM TIPS:
Increased fill light, brightness,
contrast, clarity, and global saturation
Hue and saturation were also adjusted
for individual colors in order to bring out
the green and the blue
Sharpening helped enhance the
texture in the wood and stucco
Play!
As you can see, Lightroom can do some
pretty awesome things! Get in there, play
around, experiment, and see what you
can come up with!
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38 Comments // Leave a comment
Dennis
June 22, 2011 at 7:00 am
Great info guys! I would love to know the creative

processing in the family shot on your previous post!
Thanks!
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Rob
June 22, 2011 at 9:22 am
Hey Dennis!
That shot was actually pretty straight forward, and
didn't have much creative processing. Since it was
so badly over exposed the exposure slider was
reduced. Recovery was increased to recover some
of the clipped highlights. Blacks were increased to
bring back contrast. Then adjustments were made
to ne tune brightness, contrast, and white balance.
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"The family shot can be found

here":http://www.photographyconcentrate.com
/2011/jun/20/10-reasons-why-you-shouldbe-shooting-raw/
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Allison
June 22, 2011 at 9:24 am
Everything you guys do is so awesome, so creative,

and so helpful. You rule!
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Misty
June 22, 2011 at 10:46 am
My favorite post so far. I love Lightroom and it's

great to see the before & afters and hear the choices
you make in processing. Thank you!
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Lauren
June 22, 2011 at 11:09 am
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Thanks guys!!! So glad you enjoyed this post! It was

a ton of fun going through our travel work to put it
together!!
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Erin
June 22, 2011 at 6:14 pm
Loving the square crops! I love lightroom. It's totally

my secret weapon thanks to you guys!
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Lauren
June 24, 2011 at 9:21 am
Thanks Erin! That's so awesome to hear, I love secret

weapons ;)
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malithi
June 28, 2011 at 3:11 pm
thanks for including the lightroom tips with each

before/after! sometimes it is overwhelming to see
all the editing options, so seeing the results of 'split
toning' or 'global saturation' etc. is rather handy!
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Lauren
June 29, 2011 at 11:13 am
You are most welcome Malithi! So glad it was

helpful!! These things are de nitely easier to
understand when you can actually visually see the
results!
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Nick Maxwell
July 8, 2011 at 2:48 pm
I bought your Lightroom tutorials months ago and

still refer to them constantly. They are honestly
better than any of the ocial material from Adobe,
and far more aordable. Keep up the great work! I'll
be sure to recommend your site to everyone I know
that's interested in photo processing.
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Jamie
July 25, 2011 at 11:25 am
Some great stu on here, I really like #7 and #11, I'm

always interested to see what can be done with
Lightroom alone, especially when you have the
before shot available as a comparison.
I did my own Lightroom Before and After a while
back, if you're interested you can read the post here:
http://www.3songsno ash.co.uk/blog/2010/10/12
/lightroom-photo-retouching-luchadora-beforeand-after/
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Lauren
July 29, 2011 at 10:39 am
*@Nick:* Wow! Thanks so much Nick! That's so great

to hear that the tutorial was helpful for you!!
*@Jamie:* Thanks so much. It is a blast seeing just
how far you can go with Lightroom alone! I took a
peek at your Before/After, wow! Excellent work! It's
amazing that Lightroom can even do some solid
retouching. Thanks for sharing!
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Carine
November 4, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Thank you. I always love seeing the before and after.

Great help, much appreciated.
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Juris
January 12, 2012 at 4:52 pm
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I liked to see how cropping changes the way object

looks and subsequently perception of the subject
but I must say that many of these pictures looked
more natural (and better- in my perception) before
they were post-processed and begun to resemble
postcards. Making things looking good does not
neccessarilly mean making them to look unnaturally
colourful . I am not against colourful photography
but if picture has unnaturally bright colours then it
makes me question its quality. Shame because
most of these pictures are very good.
Reading Susan Sontag's 'On Photography' would
help you to understand photography deeper.
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Lauren
January 13, 2012 at 11:27 pm
Hey Juris! Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We

processed all of these images very heavily to
demonstrate just how much of a dierence
Lightroom alone can make. A lot of people saw
Lightroom as just a basic editing tool, and we
wanted to create some dramatic edits to show just
how much it can actually do. If you check out the
rest of our work on this site you'll see that we
generally do pretty minimal, natural processing. :)
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Ryan Macalandag
January 16, 2012 at 5:51 pm
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Awesome post. It's good to be reminded

sometimes that Lightroom really rocks. I get to
doubt it sometimes. :)
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Sunday
April 4, 2012 at 2:24 pm
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Hi Rob!
For split toning, how do you decide whether to go
with cool shadows, warm shadows or pink shadows
in the above examples.
I am just learning about split toning and I'm
wondering if there is a way to decide which tone of
shadows (or highlights) will improve the image,
without spending so much time testing and playing
around with the saturation and balance sliders.
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Rob & Lauren

April 5, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Hey Sunday!
I nd that warmer highlights and cooler shadows
(with the balance shifted towards the shadow end)
generally produces the most pleasing result.
You can create presets of the split tones you create
so that you can quickly test a variety of looks, and
then ne tune once you get it roughly looking good!
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Crikette Guilimaux
May 12, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Great examples of the work of Lightroom. I'm just

starting with lightroom LR3 and it's a much better
help than PS8
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KHRoN
September 13, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Thanks for great examples! Being back, after years,

to photography and seeing such results from old
trusty Lightroom is very inspiring!
#1, 2 and 10 are especially good, I love them for
their mood. Your tips are very helpful, especially
creative use of split-toning.
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Becky
Thanks Rob for all this great help!

Can you direct me to more information on how you
speci cally go about using the split toning tool?
Again thanks sooo much!
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Rob Lim
Hey Becky! You can check out our Super Photo

Editing Skills tutorial page the example video
midway down that page actually goes into
more detail on split toning :)
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Julie Saad
November 8, 2012 at 2:52 am
Thanks so much for these tips. I love the way you

brought out the colors in these images! Beautiful
work!
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January 13, 2013 at 12:31 am
number 7 the persons thumb becomes black. i

think its too much on the shadow
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Keshan
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Hey Hi Rob,
I just went thru your post and it does have a lotta
information needed for any growing photographer
like me. It really helped me edit photos with more
con dence. Do post your experiences, the good and
the bad. And also similar kinds of guidance for
creating better photos.
Thanks,
Keshan
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jessica
February 26, 2013 at 7:14 am
I like these instructions. i have one more question

though and i have been digging through the
internet for with success. Is there some way that you
can change the color of your whites like white to
red? Similar to how a gradient map would do in
Photoshop? All i keep nding are articles on split
toning.
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OngKK.net
March 27, 2013 at 9:50 am
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Thx for the guide.. its useful :)
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Tommy
April 14, 2013 at 2:37 pm
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Hi Rob! Right now I just downloaded the 30 days

trial of Lightroom 4 which I really like it a lot. Im
wondering if you can tell me how to change a
particular object to any dierent color in a photo?
For example, I wear a head pointer on my head
since I cant use my hands to operate my keyboard
or mouse due to being born with Cerebral Palsy. My
pointer is a light pink color, and I would like to
change it to a light blue color. Does Lighroom 4
have the capability in accomplishing this task? If so,
would you tell me how please? FYI, these photos
were taken from an Iphone if that would matter.
Thanks!!!
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Rob Lim
April 17, 2013 at 9:36 pm
Hi Tommy! Great to hear youre enjoying

Lightroom! Now you could use Lightroom to
accomplish what you mentioned (changing
colours). You could use the adjustment brush
to to paint on desaturation (essentially
removing the light pink). Then you could paint
on another adjustment by adjusting the colour
picker at the bottom of the adjustment brush
panel to your choice of light blue. Then just
paint over the area you just desaturated. While
its possible to use Lightroom to do this sort of
adjustment its probably not the best tool to
use . Photoshop would to a better job of
making the adjustment look more natural.
If you need more help with this just send me
an email at
hello[at]photographyconcentrate.com :)
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Ganesan P
July 18, 2013 at 11:03 pm
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Split Toning the use of it with control gives

outputs that gives you enthusiasm to do more
photography. Also the before and after images with
the actions so taken to bring about the changes in
the nal images are great. Its like adding life to a
dead man or to a photographer, struggling with
processing to get that punch in the images.
Ganesan.
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Lisa
August 24, 2013 at 3:51 pm
WOW.the drama created in LR was

amazing.makes me want to go beyond basic
edits in it. Thank YOU!
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Charlie
Really nice collection. Lightroom never fails to

amaze me in how I can both bring images to life
and also change their meaning with simple edits.
It would be nice if Lightroom let you export a JPG of
a before/after split down the middle, as for some of
my favourite images it would be cool to upload that
too so people could see the dierence.
Right, Im o to go and subscribe to this blog now,
as it seems to be a good nd!
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Reds
November 28, 2013 at 8:50 pm
Great great articles this is helpful !

I have a question, i have been locking for a while to
how to do this kind script maybe or curves ?
http://www. ickr.com/photos/nicolaslefebure
You knows that true Dark color and gold skin
?Anyone knows ?
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Please im stucked .. :'(

Cheers from Belgium.
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Karl Baker
December 4, 2013 at 2:29 am
I love lightroom for the range of presets, but

sometimes I just dont know when to stop!
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hs
March 31, 2014 at 8:14 pm
I dont really dig the crops. Closing up kinda blocks

you from the whole scene, or something
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Mirza
January 21, 2015 at 4:49 am
What kind of gear did you

use?Camera,lens,monitor,settings?
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Max Isaev
March 20, 2015 at 9:41 am
Thanks dude, editing scenery has always been my

weaker point
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Savannah
September 28, 2015 at 8:27 am
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Love these. I obviously need to play around with

split toning! What do you nean when you say,
Recovery was increased to recover some of the
clipped highlights. , is this a new feature in LR or a
technique or something?
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