Handy summary of some basic steps to edit landscape photos in Lightroom.

Summary:
Step 1: Lens Corrections
– Remove chromatic Aberration
– Enable Lens Corrections

Step 2: Crop and Straighten

Step 3: Exposure and White Balance
– Basic Panel, Exposure Setting, WB Setting
– Use shift double-click on the word (e.g. “Exposure”) to get Lightroom’s proposed value

Step 4: Highlights and Shadows
– Basic Panel, Highlights and Shadows Settings
– 9 out of 10 times, bring down the highlights, bring up the shadows

Step 5: White Points and Black Points
– Basic Panel, Whites and Blacks Settings
– Generally use Lightroom selection

Step 6: Apply Contrast using the Tone Curve
– Tone Curve Panel
– Use the Point Curve Dropdown for a starter

Step 7: Update Presence
– Basic Panel, Presence section. Texture, Clarity, Dehaze, Vibrance, Saturation Settings
– Clarity up or down 10

Step 8: Sharpening
– Detail Panel, Sharpening Section
– Upper 60 or lower 70
– Use Masking slider to control which bits are sharpened (White portions receive sharpening)

#LandscapePhotography