Deep Sea Blue Lightroom Photo Editing
You can upscale your photo edit and transform your RAW or unedited images to make them look better and get that premium deep sea blue tone 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 deep sea photography like deep sea photos, retro fashion pictures, deep sea ocean images, ocean photography pictures, blue ocean photos, blue ocean photography 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 deep sea blue lightroom photo editing tutorial.
How To Edit Deep Sea Blue in Lightroom
To achieve Deep Sea Blue Photography 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: +0.00 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Contrast: +9 (increase contrast to give that punchy colours look)
Highlights: -44 (to darken the white color tone to your subject in the photo)
Shadows: +8 (to brighten the subject a bit from the background)
Whites: -22 (whites to be decreased to achieve that dark blue tone)
Blacks: -4 (to make your subject darker 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, green and blue 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 Deep Sea Blue Photography look i have given the settings below.
Move to color option in the edit section and change these setting using the slider.
Temperature: -5 (decrease temperature to get cooler tone to your photos)
Tint: +5 (tint to be shifted to pinkish side for this tone)
Vibrance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this deep sea blue edit)
Take reference from this image for colour adjustments
In the photo to get that Deep Sea Blue Photography 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: +195 (by setting this value it will give blueish tone)
Saturation: +22 (increase this one to get deep blue colours to your photo)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blending: +89
Balance: +33 (this value is to balance out your photo for this edit)
Midtones:
Hue: +209 (by setting this value it will give blueish purple tone)
Saturation: +20 (increase this one to get deep blue colours to your photo)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blending: +89
Balance: +33 (this value is to balance out your photo for this edit)
Highlights:
Hue: +204 (by setting this value it will give light blue tone)
Saturation: +19 (increase this one to get deep blue colours to your photo)
Luminance: +0
Blending: +89
Balance: +33 (this value is to balance out your photo for this edit)
Color Mix Settings:
Red
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Orange
Hue: -14 (negative value for this will change skin tones to orange)
Saturation: +5 (by increasing this it will compliment subject's colour tone with the retro photography)
Luminance: +27 (it will help to brighten the skin tone of the subject)
Yellow
Hue: -4 (to change the green tones to yellow so that it will look good)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Luminance: +4 (it will enhance your yellow's of your photo)
Green
Hue: -1 (by decreasing this little bit it will look green from light green)
Saturation: +23 (if there's any green things then it will enhance your photo)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
Teal
Hue: -100 (by this settings it look light teal tone)
Saturation: -38 (it will desaturate your teal colour in the photo)
Luminance: -48 (it will make the teal or blues of your photo darker)
Blue
Hue: +38 (by setting this to +38 it will change blue to bit darker blueish purple tone)
Saturation: -10 (this will give subtle blue tone your photo)
Luminance: -25 (by decreasing this blue luminance it will make the sea look darker)
Purple
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
Pink
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to achieve this deep sea blue tone)
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: +16 (by increasing this it will get a sharp and HD look)
Clarity: +10 (by increasing this values it will get a sharp look)
Dehaze: +9 (increase this value it will give faded studio soft look)
Vignette:-
Amount: +8 (by doing this edges of the photo will be brighter and will give a cinematic look)
Midpoint: +40
Feather: +60
Roundness: -7 (it will fade out the brighter vignette that we have applied above)
Highlights: +0 (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: +6 (it will give crisp and sharp look)
Radius: +0.60
Detail: +4
Masking: 0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Noise
Noise Reduction: +39 (it will your whole photo a soft look)
Detail: +30
Contrast: +26 (it will give punchier colours to the photo)
Color Noise
Color Noise Reduction: +8 (it will boost your colours to look premium)
Detail: +26
Smoothness: +68
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 Deep Sea Blue 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 Deep Sea Blue tone edit?
Answer: Photos like Adventure portrait, ocean photos, deep sea 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 adventure, outdoor, deep sea photography and ocean photos?
Answer: Yes, this edit is fully compatible for ocean photography photos, outdoor adventure, deep sea blue photos, deep dive fashion images but it will not work for street, night, indoor and urban images.
