How to use Lightroom to make any photo look professional

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In this Lightroom tutorial, I’ll show you to how to take any photo and make it look much more professional using just a few simple steps in Lightroom. I’ll be using Lightroom’s Develop module and will go through the Basic adjustments first before adding curves, sharpening and specific colour adjustments.

You’ll be surprised how easy it is to edit photography in Lightroom for professional looking results and I hope you’ll get a lot out of this video.

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28 Comments
  1. RT. Asma Alshammari says

    You're an amazing photography teacher!! Thank you so much for this Chanel

  2. Tito Haris Prasetyo says

    Can i ask why you dont use exposure contrast and clarity?

  3. Demetra K says

    Amazing!Your picture is so beautiful and your video simple and very very helpful!Thank you so much!

  4. Toby Jugg says

    Im new to lightroom BUT your tutorials are just SO confidence building – instead of just "messing", your clear tips give my work real focus – THANK YOU for giving me (us ) so much opportunity to improve.

  5. Winking Walrus says

    A bit too much saturation in my opinion, but I like the direction you went.

  6. Shaba Khanam says

    What software u r using ??and how to download it?

  7. Sorry Pookie says

    I personally don’t like making my images too saturated but this has still really helped me so thanks 🙂

  8. ounkham phomvihane says

    wow teacher thanks so lot for your light room instruction, im well noted for for this lesson

  9. Chris Hill says

    You make it look so easy Marc, lol, great tutorials as always 🤓🇬🇧👍🌈

  10. Mulisa Museri says

    I can't believe i've only discovered this channel today , Amazing Tutorials!

  11. cgtalk ! says

    Jeeebus, its like he put saturation to 50000 billion. Way too much color, part of photography is to add the missing life of the scene by bumping up just slightly all the tones and making the blacks rich but soft, all this guy did was slide the saturation all the way to the right. Ruined the pic imo.

  12. Eva PM says

    Love it … and that sky 😍 thanks!

  13. Maxwell Ambagwa says

    Kindly send me your email address to maxambagwa@gmail.com

  14. Theolyn Warrender says

    … New Forest life …

  15. HURPSY IMAGERY STUDIO says

    Thank you🙌🙌🙌

  16. Paintball Noob says

    holy saturation

  17. NorthIdahoFlash says

    Thank you!

  18. PJ Cruzledda says

    wow! what more could it be if it's in RAW. awesome work!

  19. Subhum Juggarnauth says

    i use photoshop cc to adjust images
    do i also need liightroom??

  20. EastCheshireDetectorist says

    Hi, I am a beginner to dslr photography, I have watched many tutorials about shooting in raw, then adjustments are made in Lightroom. Which in your opinion is better to shoot in, raw or jpeg. Thank you.

  21. Nobel Davis says

    Hey, What's the difference between saturation and vibration.

  22. Haitian Steve says

    Thank you

  23. Heng Lu says

    Thank you for your tutorial, but I think the edit makes the photo unreal. How can we make a balance between the original picture and the picture which are oversaturated. Thank you!

  24. Dipty Roy says

    nice

  25. Taha Mouissa says

    Love this tutorial

  26. Alex Hayward says

    Amazing, thank you very much for your help. 🙂

  27. christian sharnee says

    thanks for your help!

  28. Kevin Milliken says

    Great tutorial Marc,

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