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10 Common Lightroom mistakes and how to avoid them

May 9, 2016 by Udi Tirosh 13 Comments

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With great power comes great responsibility, and with an image catalog comes well, lesser responsibility, but a responsibility nonetheless. And we’ve all done it, selective color, over saturation, vignette hell.

Sometimes it take a while for our brain to realize that when a photo needs a change, it doe snot need a massive change, just the right amount of change.

And this is what youtube channel ibreakphotos is set to show. That you don’t need to push those dials all the way to the end. Sometimes Usually a subtle, yet well thought budge is enough to bring the photo to a good place.

From top to bottom, here are 10 Common Lightroom mistakes and how to avoid them

1. Vignette overuse

https://youtu.be/vzMrsxxN9BY

2. Clarity abuse

https://youtu.be/Yq5KsIIoj8U

3. Selective color

https://youtu.be/BTBlTBX5Wsc

4. The “Faded” Look

https://youtu.be/za7h9G7SYjQ

5. HDR

https://youtu.be/hwn9gxWQ9jg

6. Graduated filters

https://youtu.be/T2YN3r6ttxI

7. Light spots

https://youtu.be/Nim2W3fHPMM

8. Highlight recovery in night shots

https://youtu.be/mmtdrQKee2s

9. Fake lens blur

https://youtu.be/NYJRvOL-Qr0

10. Oversaturation and dehazing

https://youtu.be/uLxkpATWSKM

[Adobe Lightroom Mistakes Series | ibreakphotos via reddit]

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About Udi Tirosh

Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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