Beautiful Sunset Lightroom Photo Editing
You can elevate photo edit and transform your RAW or unedited images to make them look better and get that Beautiful Sunset in your photos by following step by step instructions given below. By following these editing settings you can learn about photo editing in lightroom mobile. And you can improve your editing skills. I will also provide attach before and after results below. When it comes to photo editing, In this photo editing tutorial I like to bring out the light, tonal curve and add saturation color tones to the photos. It almost gives your photos a professional look. These editing settings works for all types of sunset photography like aesthetic fashion photos, outdoor nature pictures, sunset portrait images, portrait photography pictures, aesthetic sunset fashion photos, beautiful sunset images and many more. Never stop upgrading or upscaling your editing skills always focus on creativity, innovation, audience understanding, consistency and adaptability. By following these editing tutorials you can transform from beginner to premium look.
Photo editing can be very hard and complex, even there's no right or wrong way in how to do it. If we start editing in adobe lightroom mobile, we have so many different curves, tools, color mixes, aspects and settings almost giving us endless combinations we can create with. So, that can make it really hard but it can also make it fun and professional. In this tutorial i will try to make you all understand editing and gain some knowledge of color correcting. So welcome to this beautiful sunset lightroom photo editing tutorial.
How To Edit Beautiful Sunset in Lightroom
To achieve Beautiful Sunset looks to your photos, i will provide you all settings below step by step. Just follow all the steps properly and try to understand which editing tool is for what. Always remember that before getting into editing process selection of photos matter's a lot always select the prefect image. So Let's start editing now.
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Step 1: Settings for light adjustments of the photo
Let's start with light option in the edit tab of Lightroom which includes base lighting and tonal curve of the photo. Move your slider carefully and according to settings given below or else you can also take reference from picture attached below.
Exposure: +0.10 (by increasing this it will give brighter look to your whole photo)
Contrast: +20 (increase contrast to give dark colours look)
Highlights: -56 (to darken the skin color tone to your subject in the photo)
Shadows: +10 (to brighten the subject a bit from the background)
Whites: -46 (whites to be decreased to achieve that dark skin tone according to this edit)
Blacks: +30 (to make your subject bright from the background)
Now Let's move to most important part of photo editing which is tonal curve adjustment (know more about tonal curve).
You can take reference from the picture attached below i have provide light setting and curve settings for white, blue and green curves.
Step 2: Settings for color adjustments
Now let's move to the interesting part of photo editing which is adjusting color of the photo. Here you can adjust temperature, tint, saturation, you color grade and also you can mix color of your photo. For Beautiful Sunset look i have given the settings below.
Move to color option in the edit section and change these setting using the slider.
Temperature: +10 (increase temperature to get the warmer tone to your photos)
Tint: +20 (this will give pinkish tint your beautiful sunset photos)
Vibrance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Take reference from this image for colour adjustments
In the photo to get that Beautiful Sunset look color grading and color mix are important aspects so now go to color grading part which includes shadows, mid tones, highlights and global as shown in the image above and these are the settings for color grading and mix.
Color Grading Settings:
Shadows
Hue: +50 (to give yellowish orange tone to your whole photo)
Saturation: +30
Blending: +50
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Highlights
Hue: +315 (to give pinkish to your subject and whole photo)
Saturation: +50
Blending: +50
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Global
Hue: +240 (to give purplish to your subject in the photo)
Saturation: +30 (increase this it will give purple tone to your photo)
Blending: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Color Mix Settings:
Red
Hue: -10 (to change the red tone into brownish for this edit)
Saturation: +10 (to give beautiful sunset tone to your image)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Orange
Hue: -10 (to change skin tone to orangish to yellow of the subject of the photo)
Saturation: -20 (by decreasing this it will compliment subject's skin tone with the Beautiful Sunset)
Luminance: +10
Yellow
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -10 (by decreasing this it give faded colours to portrait)
Luminance: -10 (it will give dark skin tone to the sunset images)
Green
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -40 (by decreasing this it will look matte or fade look to the greens)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Teal
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -40 (by decreasing this it will look matte or fade look to the greens)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blue
Hue: +50 (by increasing it will change blue tone to purple blue tone for the beautiful sky)
Saturation: -40 (to balance out the colours)
Luminance: 0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Purple
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -20
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Pink
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -20
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Step 3: Settings for Effects of your photo
Now move to Effects option in the edit section, by using this settings given above image, it will make your photo look crisp and high quality. This includes texture, clarity, vignette and grain.
Texture: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Clarity: +10 (by increasing this values it will get a sharp look)
Dehaze: +20 (reducing this value it will give faded look)
Vignette:-
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Grain:-
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Step 4: Settings for Details
Sharpening
Amount: +21 (it will give crisp and sharp look)
Radius: +0.70
Detail: +16 (to enhance your details of the photo)
Masking: +55
Noise
Noise Reduction: +15 (it will your whole photo a soft look)
Detail: +50
Contrast: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Color Noise
Color Noise Reduction: +20 (to balance out the colour of the photo)
Detail: +50
Smoothness: +50
Optional Step 5: Optics
Turn on or Enable lens corrections to give the final touch to your photos but if you don't want you can skip this step.
By applying all these settings mentioned above you will achieve this look, you can see the final results below.
Step 5: Go to profiles section.
Tap on profiles and then go to vintage section, then select (Vintage 01).
Preview of Beautiful Sunset Tone Lightroom Editing (Before and After)
Note (Changes to make) :
These editing settings are a great starting point to personalize the look further, consider making some adjustments to the following settings.
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Highlights
- Saturation
Most importantly before applying this edits please select a photo which should be an outdoor, nature, adventure, fashion or portrait photos. So, that this edit will look good on it.
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FAQs
Which type of photos will be good for Beautiful Sunset tone edit?
Answer: Photos like nature, adventure fashion, Sunset photography photos. Before trying this edit please check the before and after result of the edit. Even you can know which type of photo to be used.
Can these settings be used on any photo editing software's?
Answer: We suggest to use Adobe Lightroom Mobile, Adobe Lightroom Desktop and Adobe Photoshop.
Does these settings works for video colour grading also?
Answer: No, These editing settings are only for photos not for video.
Does this edit works for sunset, outdoor, nature and adventure photos?
Answer: Yes, this edit is fully compatible for sunset, outdoor, aesthetic nature, adventure images but it will not work for street, night, indoor and studio images.