Pure Joy

Pure Joy
Shannon Barth Photography 2013

Friday, June 27, 2014

Editing! A peek behind what I do on the computer

Here's a little peek into my editing, lovely followers! I just want to go on the record to tell the world how much I LOVE Lightroom! It is an amazing program which allows photographers to edit their shots... without destroying the quality of the image! As fun as Photoshop is, it serves a wide range of uses and I feel like I am often ADAPTING tools to work for photography. Lightroom is so specifically aimed to photographers, it makes me, giddy. I have been using this program for about a year and I have become more and more reliant on it. So much so that it has become my prime method of editing. It is amazing fun and it can do things like this edit... in a single click using one of my custom-made presets (for anyone not familiar with the term, presets are a saved grouping of settings). I have now created oodles of Presets which allow me to set all of my over 40 slide-bar settings in a single click to give an image a certain style, look, or feel. Sure, tweaks often need to be made, as not every preset works for every image... but WOW... the fun it allows me to have! Now, please don't assume this means I only do a single click and it's DONE for images hah! Sorry, guys, editing still takes time. But this program helps a ton and allows me to have fun putting my own personalized style, not just into my shooting, but also my editing. Hope you all enjoyed this little peek into the editing process! I will post a few more of these before/after things later today. Let this be proclaimed "BEHIND THE SCENES" day haha! Enjoy your Friday, everyone!

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