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Preparing the images in Lightroom and Photoshop

Preparing the images in Lightroom and Photoshop

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Preparing the images in Lightroom and Photoshop

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- [Instructor] Next, I want to share with you an overview of how we can prepare and finish off our images using Lightroom and Photoshop before we upload our files to our portfolio site. So here, you can see I'm in Lightroom, and the intent here isn't to show you an exhaustive view of how we can work in Lightroom, but rather, it's to highlight this whole idea that this is the original image that I have here, and then this is the file after a little bit of processing. What type of processing? Well, typically it begins in the basic panel, you can see a few basic adjustments there. Here's another image which needed just a little bit of brightening up and changing of the color temperature. Still another one where I've cleaned the image up and improved the overall look. Let me go through that image from start to finish so you can have a sense on how I would approach this. Here's the original file, I would begin by cropping it, so I'd select the crop tool in Lightroom. You could also do this…

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