Golden skin, sunshine-dappled sea, stretches of sand as far as the eye can see — summer beach holidays really are a delight to all five senses. But photos don’t always do justice to the experience. Have no fear beach lovers! Any summer photos can go a long way just by doing some photo editing and retouching in Lightroom.
Photo Editing and retouching Beach Photos in Lightroom
On the Basics tab, you can bring your photos to life using basic tools like Exposure, Contrast and Highlights/Shadows. To balance the image and get it properly exposed, you need to adjust them as well.
White Balance: Beach photos in the sun can also suffer having too cool (or blue) a cast from an overcast sky or shade. The preferred approach is through the “White Balance” tool which allows you to adjust the color temperature so that it looks warmer and more natural.
Color Correction: Use the “Color” panel to deepen vivid colors for your beach scape. Use the sliders of “Saturation” and “Vibrance”, play with them to make more visible blue from the ocean and green of vegetation but without being extremely unreal.
Sharpening: will sharpen your image a little bit, so if you are shooting something textured like shells or faces this is where the detail is going to come. Steer clear of artifacts or over sharpening by using the “Sharpening” tool with care.
Enhancing the Summer Vibe:
Clarity: Use the clarity tool to make your photo more like a “pop”. This creation of high contrast and low definition objects to give detail. Just be careful not to overdo it, as that can make the photo look harsh.
Noisiness diminishes: This can occur if you shoot on a low-light beach and photos become grainy. This got rid of the noise without removing any detail, Sugar Wait was ideal for this kind of photo.
Creative Tools: Lightroom has multiple Creative Profiles, such as “Landscape” or “Vibrant,” each of which provides a way to add your own style to flower photos. Play around with it and see what profile fits the mood of your image.
Retouching Techniques: Advanced
Local Adjustments — Graduate Filter or Brush Adjustment to adjust only specific areas of your image. For instance, change a bright sky into dark or lighten up a shadowed foreground to have an equal color composition.
Lens Correction: Utilize the lens correction features for correcting minor distortions formed by lenses like vignetting or darkened corners. In some cases, lens profiles are now baked into raw files by the camera during image capture so this step isn’t even needed anymore.
How does the UK clipping path help you?
Lightroom is an excellent set of editing tools, but you might need something more advanced sometimes. And if you want to go above and beyond, add that extra shine with professional photo editing services from UK Clipping Path. This includes a highly skilled team that has experience with:
High End photo Retouching: Whether it is to smooth skin imperfections, eliminate distracting elements or add a soft glow we can always take your beach portraits to the next level.
Change your Background Dreaming Of A New Beach Backdrop? We change the background of your photos into, be it a tropical paradise or a sunset scene.
Professional Color Grading —Our experts use colors as a storytelling tool to nail the look, create a specific mood, make your beach pictures into art photos.
Conclusion:
By working through a couple of easy edits in Lightroom and the expertise UK Clipping Path could offer for further touch ups, you can elevate your everyday summer beach photographs into something more akin to those precious memories.
In other words, you better take that camera to the beach and get some moments in those sun! And always remember you can bring summertime memories to life with a little manipulation here and there.
