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How to Make a Bad Picture Look Good in Adobe Lightroom

March 4, 2015 by Jack Luo 1 Comment

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Images © Jack (Wei Xi) Luo | Photograph IO. All rights reserved.

For more Lightroom editing workflows like this one, click here. Disclaimer/warming : you can’t actually turn a 100% crappy shot into an 100% amazing one. While Lightroom and digital darkroom these days can overcome most technical shortcomings with relative ease; talk about noise reduction, tonal editing to modify the sensor feel, or even shake reduction as of Photoshop CC, NOTHING will fix bad composition and plain simple laziness. Sorry. 

What happens when you take a bad (ok, ordinary) point and shoot picture and try to make it into something good?

In this fourth of the Lightroom Editing Series, we’ll turn an bad (ordinary?) picture of a Chinese highway (it’s in Shenyang if I recall correctly) taken using a 2008 compact, the Sony DSC-H50, into a great looking shot using modern Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. And it’s a video this time 🙂

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Filed Under: Lightroom Editing Series, Photography, Street Photography, Urban Photography Tagged With: adobe lightroom, adobe photoshop lightroom, advanced technique, bad shot into good shot, darkroom, editing, lightroom, make a bad picture look good, photo editing, photoshop, post-processing, tonal editing

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