“Smells like snow in the air” do you know what means?
For many photographers and creators that the frigid winter months are here and this is an exceptional opportunity to capture unique and special photos!! It's the magic of winterwonderland... who doesn't love this kind of scenery. ❄️🌨☃️✨
But creating and editing winter images sometimes could be quite hard not only for the extreme weather conditions but also for the many post-processing shades related to snowy winter photography.
In this tutorial we will see some tips for Lightroom Classic 🖥 and Mobile📱 that have helped me along the way with my winter post-processing workflow. First we're going to make the basic adjustments to the Whites and the Tone Curve, then we'll play with colors enjoying with HSL (HUE, SATURATION, LUMINANCE) panel.
Here is the raw file we're going to use as sample image... a typical winterwonderland.
Ready to make it a little better? 🤩🤩
Step 1: Basic Adjustments / Classic 🖥 & Mobile📱
Open your winter image in Adobe Lightroom and perform normal adjustments in Basic panel. By that I mean, White Balance, Exposure, and Levels.
For White Balance and Exposure in Basic panel I choosed these settings:
Exposure +0,85, Contrast -43, Highlights -53, Shadows +68, Whites -20, Blacks -10.
NOTE: For the snowy effect increase Shadows and remove global Contrast using the Contrast Slider, then add contrast back in using the Tone Curve.
I prefer this approach to get a smoother less contrast, it will give a softer and ethereal look to my image. Don't forget that any photos may be very different from one another so play around with different settings until you are happy with the final results.
Then, adjust Levels of Tone Curve:
and refine the curve by adjusting Highlights and Lights settings (for LR Classic CC only 🖥):
Step 2: Get Creative with Colors
The problem with snowy winter landscapes is that there are no colors, and often images tend to become monochrome. In order to avoid this "total white" effect we can adjust settings of Temperature, Tint and HSL panel. In general, adding a blue tone to the shadows and a touch of purple/magenta is a good idea and works most of the time, but in this case our original image is very blue and we must be careful to calibrate the yellows and warmer tones as well.
Let's see how, starting from the Basic panel:
Temp: 7.253 🖥, +5 📱
Tint: +3 🖥 📱
Vibrance: -13 🖥 📱
Saturation: +39 🖥 📱
Then, in HSL panel:
Finally, use Camera Calibration for extracting more color (for LR Classic CC only 🖥).
Here are my settings:
BLUE PRIMARY: hue -14, saturation -21
GREEN PRIMARY: hue -8, saturation 0
RED PRIMARY: hue +18, saturation 0.
WELL DONE!! And here is how is going on...
What do you think? If you like this result you can save these settings as a preset and apply it to other photos!
Step 3: Create a Preset
LR CLASSIC CC 🖥 Create a new Preset folder from the main menu (Develope / New Preset Folder) and then click on the (+) in the Preset panel on the left of the screen, and give your preset a name:
LR MOBILE 📱 After you made all these edits click on the three dots inside a circle (...) in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, choose “Create Preset” from the menu that appears, and then give your preset a name.
Here’s the tutorial video for more instructions about How to install Lightroom Presets
Special TAKEAWAY for you :
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If you like this post, please share it using the social sharing bottons and don't miss the second part of this tuturial:
How to create the VERY SNOWY EFFECT using LR Classic CC 🖥
I'll be happy to share with you some more tips...!! ❄️☃️🤩
– Chiarik22 ♡
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