photo editing help

dviper150

dviper150

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I downloaded adobe lightroom 4.3 and I am having trouble editing the pictures after i take them. I shot a bunch in RAW and took them using manual mood so it was my first go at that too so I can edit it to the way it looks like as I see it in person since its impossible to take pictures under LEDs and I am coming up with crap lol This is what I ended up with after editing and it doesn't look right to me. What do you guys think?

After I upload the image to lightroom, there is a section on the side for white balance and it has temperature, tint, exposure, clarity, vibrancy, etc. to fix the image. Am I using the right section for fixing the image? After converting from RAW to JPEG, the image looses some of the quality too. Any way to keep as much of that as possible when converting image formats?







 
yes, you are in develop mode, to adjust your blue images, first move the white balance slider to the right as you do, you should see the less blue and more of a natural look, then you can adjust the exposure(brightness)
the white slide will help reduce any hot spots (bright white areas)
then you can play with the rest of the sliders to get the look you see in your tank.
 
I don't see a white balance slider. The only sections I see under "quick develop" are: temperature, tint, whites, blacks, shadows, highlights, clarity, and vibrancy. If I move the "whites" section all the way to the right, it looks very unnatural. Are you talking about moving the "temperature" all the way to the right?
 
if it has numbers like 5600 etc then you are adjusting color temperature
if you see 1,2,3 etc then you are working with a jpg image and it does not give full white balance control.
 
I see no numbers at all. All I see is temperature and under that, I see either a single arrow or double arrow going in either direction indication and increase or decrease in temperature.
 
look to the right of the slider for temp
also the other tabs below like detail can reduce noise in the image.
the tab for hsl, if you open it you will see a bunch of color sliders, you will also see a little circle in the upper left corner of it, if you click it and then select a object and hold down the left click on the mouse and move up and down you will adjust that individual color.
 
you can also select the images you want to work with and make the rest disappear, not delete, just hidden from your work space.

while reviewing the images on the time line by moving the arrow keys left or right (must click on one image first) you can click the letter P for flag and the letter u to remove the flag, once done flagging, in the bottom right you will see a tab filters off, select that and change it to flagged, now only the images you flagged will appear, you can also right click on the image you want and set ratings or colors so you can organize what you want to work with. Happy editing, you are welcome and pm me if you want more help.
 
One of the most helpful features IME for tank photo editing is the Auto-Sync feature. Since all of our photos are taken under such blue lighting, we can adjust the basic composition of ALL the photos we take at one time.

Not sure if you have already figured this out but instead of editing each individual photo to the same temp/color settings, you can do them all at one time. In the Develop module, select all the photos you want to edit. With multiple photos selected, check the bottom right corner of the screen and you should see 2 buttons. The left one should say either "Sync" or "Auto-Sync" If it says Sync then you need to click the tiny little switch on the left side of the Sync button. If it says Auto-Sync, then you are good to go and any editing you do will take effect in ALL the selected photos.

I usually select all the photos, make sure Auto-Sync is on, and set the Temperature to about 22K (most of the way to the right). I then go through all the photos and adjust the Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, and MAYBE the Tint for each photo to make it look how I want. I rarely, if ever, use the saturation/hue sliders.

Hope this helps save you a little time!
 
lol thats crazy talk! ;) Heres a couple I edited from this thread. With the actual images and especially RAW you can really do a lot to get to true life color. The best thing about aperture is the SPEED. Theres about 20 slider bars, its VERY easy to get a great result on a photo in a very short amount of time. I am a graphic designer from AI and trained for PS. I still use CS6 once in a while for photos but aperture is pretty slick. The last ones not that great but again from web images. Ive got some photos on www.adrianpoe.com you can check out.

Befores first - Aperture after.












 
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You can do those same adjustments in LR...

From what I understand, Aperture is just LightRoom that is integrated more for Apple users, but the actual image editing part is very similar...
 
Helfrichs Chic, those are really good "after" pictures from your editing. Now how do I do that using lightroom? lol BTW, those pictures you have taken are awesome!

ssick92 - Thanks for that suggestion. I will do that because I don't want to be sitting here editing every single image if I can just do them all at once.
 
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