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Posted July 12th, 2019 by Bonnie Caton & filed under Travel Photography.

This week, I’m sharing my three favorite ways to make your photos look dramatic and beautiful in just seconds using Lightroom.   

With Lightroom, it’s crazy how much of a difference you can make in a second. If you missed ‘em, catch my first two favorite tools, on reducing haze and adding drama.  

My third favorite tool is Lightroom’s Texture slider, which enhances, well, texture! This brand-new tool is amazing for emphasizing the texture in things like elephant skin:

… or the fur of these lions:

Of course, the tricks I’ve showed you this week are each just one small part of what you can do. Lightroom’s texture slider has saved me in so many situations when I didn’t get my settings right, or missed something, like a piece of trash in the foreground.

And it’s learning to combine each tool that really makes the magic happen. For this wedding shot, for example, I probably spent about three minutes perfecting it by tweaking different tools:

Lightroom never harms your images, so you can play around with all of the sliders as much as you want. And that’s a great way to learn. Just get your photos in there and start sliding things around to see what happens.

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