Mountain Photography Lightroom Photo Editing
You can improve photo edit and transform your RAW or unedited images to make them look better and get that premium Mountain Photography 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 mountain photography like adventure photos, nature fashion pictures, moody mountain images, nature photography pictures, adventure nature photos, mountain 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 Mountain photography lightroom photo editing tutorial.
How To Edit Mountain Photography Photos in Lightroom
To achieve Mountain 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: -20 (decrease contrast to give faded colours look)
Highlights: -75 (to darken the skin color tone to your subject in the photo)
Shadows: +19 (to brighten the subject a bit from the background)
Whites: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blacks: -15 (to make your subject bright from the background by making it darker)
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, red, 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 Mountain Photography look i have given the settings below.
Move to color option in the edit section and change these setting using the slider.
Temperature: -4 (decrease temperature to get bit cooler tone to your photos)
Tint: -9 (by setting this tint to -9 which will add green tones to your photo)
Vibrance: +8 (it will give punchier colours of your whole photo)
Saturation: +4 (by increasing saturation it will look matte colours)
Take reference from this image for colour adjustments
In the photo to get that Mountain 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: 236 (by setting to 236 it will give a tint of purple and blue to your photo)
Saturation: 11
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blending: +50
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Mid Tones:
Hue: 40 (by setting to 40 it will give a tint of orange and yellow to your photo)
Saturation: 12
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blending: +100
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Shadows:
Hue: 192 (by setting to 192 it will give a tint of teal and light blue to your photo)
Saturation: 7
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blending: +100
Balance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Color Mix Settings:
Red
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: +10 (increase to give mountain tone to your image)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Orange
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: +55 (by increasing this it will compliment subject's colour tone with the mountain photography)
Luminance: +10
Yellow
Hue: -45 (to change the yellowish tone to mountain nature photography so that it will look good)
Saturation: -6 (it will desaturate your yellow's of your photo)
Luminance: +14
Green
Hue: -19 (by decreasing this it will look green from light green)
Saturation: +29 (if there's any green things then it will enhance your photo)
Luminance: +51 (by increasing this value it will give bright green look)
Teal
Hue: +40 (by this settings it look dark teal tone)
Saturation: +10 (this will enhance teal tone in your photo)
Luminance: +5 (by increasing this value it will give bit bright teal look)
Blue
Hue: -20 (this will change blue colour tone into light blue tone in your photo)
Saturation: -5
Luminance: -15
Purple
Hue: -30 (it will change purple tone into violet tone)
Saturation: -10
Luminance: -20 (by decreasing this it will give faded nature look)
Pink
Hue: +5 (by setting it to 5 it will give reddish pink tone)
Saturation: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
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 decreasing this values it will get a haze look)
Dehaze: +10 (increase this value it will give faded mountain look)
Vignette:-
Amount: -14 (by doing this edges of the photo will be darker and will give a cinematic look)
Midpoint: +33
Feather: +59
Roundness: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
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: +19 (it will give crisp and sharp look)
Radius: +1.40
Detail: +25
Masking: +60
Noise
Noise Reduction: +7 (it will your whole photo a soft look)
Detail: +10
Contrast: +52
Color Noise
Color Noise Reduction: +25 (it will boost your colours to look premium)
Detail: +26
Smoothness: +11
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 Mountain Photography 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 Mountain Photography tone edit?
Answer: Photos like adventure nature, outdoor fashion, mountain photos, mountain 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 outdoor, nature, mountain photography and adventure photos?
Answer: Yes, this edit is fully compatible for mountain photography photos, outdoor photos, nature fashion photos, adventure images but it will not work for night, studio, autumn and indoor images.
