Sepia Effect Lightroom Photo Editing
You can elevate photo edit and transform your RAW or unedited images to make them look better and get that Sepia Effect 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 flawless look. These editing settings works for all types of portrait photography like fashion photos, outdoor portrait pictures, street portrait images, portrait photography pictures, urban fashion photos, Sepia Effect 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 professional.
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 Sepia Effect lightroom photo editing tutorial.
How To Edit Sepia Effect in Lightroom
To achieve Sepia Effect 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: +20 (by increasing this it will glow look to subject of the photo)
Contrast: +30 (increase contrast to give colours punchier look)
Highlights: -53 (to darken the skin color tone slightly)
Shadows: -6 (to darken the subject a bit from the background)
Whites: -89 (whites to be decreased to achieve that dark effect)
Blacks: -45 (to make your subject dark 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 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 Sepia Effect look i have given the settings below.
Move to color option in the edit section and change these setting using the slider.
Temperature: +35 (increase temperature to get the warmer tone to your photos)
Tint: -5 (to add bit of greenish tint to your photo edit)
Vibrance: -25 (it will give shuttle colours of your whole photo)
Saturation: -5 (by decreasing saturation it will look darker and bit brown)
Take reference from this image for colour adjustments
In the photo to get that Sepia effect 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:
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Color Mix Settings:
Red
Hue: -15 (to change the red tone into brownish for this edit)
Saturation: -45 (to give sepia effect tone to your image)
Luminance: -40 (by decreasing this it will dark red to this tone)
Orange
Hue: -20 (to change skin tone of the subject of the photo)
Saturation: -17 (by decreasing this it will compliment subject's skin tone with the sepia effect)
Luminance: +15
Yellow
Hue: +12 (to change the yellowish tone to sepia tone so that it will look good)
Saturation: -40
Luminance: -35 (it will give dark tone to the portrait images)
Green
Hue: -80 (by decreasing this it will look brownish green from vivid green)
Saturation: -55
Luminance: -20
Teal
Hue: -20
Saturation: -100
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blue
Hue: -40 (by decreasing it will change blue tone to dark blue tone)
Saturation: -15
Luminance: 0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Purple
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Pink
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 need for this tone)
Clarity: +10 (this will give sharp look)
Dehaze: +0 (no changes need for this tone to your photos)
Vignette:-
Amount: -14 (by doing this edges of the photo will be darker and will give a cinematic look)
Midpoint: +30
Feather: +100
Roundness: +100
Highlights: +44
Grain:-
Amount: +3
Size: +8 (it will increase the grain texture on the photo that we have add above)
Roughness: +13
Step 4: Settings for Details
Sharpening:
Amount: +6 (it will give crisp and sharp look)
Radius: +0.50
Detail: +18
Masking: 0
Noise
Noise Reduction: +21
Detail: +31
Contrast: +13
Color Noise
no changes need for this tone
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.
Preview of Sepia Effect 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 Sepia effect tone edit?
Answer: Photos like portrait, fashion, outdoor 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 portrait, outdoor, nature and fashion photos?
Answer: Yes, this edit is fully compatible for portrait, outdoor, nature portrait, adventure images but it will not work for night, indoor and studio images.
