{"id":321,"date":"2014-09-15T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:35:20","slug":"lightroom-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/lightroom-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom Workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Lightroom Workflow for making photos for use on any social media.<\/p>\n<p>I will show you a before and after that I use primarily for landscape photos. <\/p>\n<p>First, I export out the RAW files from something like iPhoto into a folder.<\/p>\n<p>I drag the contents of this photo onto the Lightroom icon or open up the folder in Lightroom. I then select the photos I want to import. Then, I select a photo to edit.<\/p>\n<p>I will start out with this photo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_before.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_before-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"1_before\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_before-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_before-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_before-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next I do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>click on &#8220;Enable Profile Corrections&#8221;,\n<\/li>\n<li>adjust white balance (This can really make or break a RAW photo but won&#8217;t do much in JPG),\n<\/li>\n<li>adjust contrast and exposure,\n<\/li>\n<li>adjust the tone curve, and\n<\/li>\n<li>adjust the sharpenss.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first and last step are key. When you take a photo with a DSLR, the photos are not sharp but softly diffuse in RAW format. Without post-processing you cannot get the same kind of sharpness that you might from a film camera with the same setup as your digital camera. Here is a before and after showing just how important the sharpening step is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_without_sharpening.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_without_sharpening.png\" alt=\"1_without_sharpening\" width=\"244\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_without_sharpening.png 244w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/1_without_sharpening-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_with_sharpening.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_with_sharpening.png\" alt=\"2_with_sharpening\" width=\"240\" height=\"316\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_with_sharpening.png 240w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_with_sharpening-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enabling the profile corrections will adjust any distortion that your lens causes, e.g. a curved instead of a straight horizon. In the past this was a painstaking process to fix that might take hours. Now you can fix it with the click of a button.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the final image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_after.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_after-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"2_after\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_after-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_after-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2_after-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Lightroom Workflow for making photos for use on any social media. I will show you a before and after that I use primarily for landscape photos. First, I export out the RAW files from something like iPhoto into a folder. I drag the contents of this photo onto the Lightroom icon or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/15\/lightroom-workflow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lightroom Workflow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketthis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}