The upright tool is also a part of the Lens Corrections settings. Lightroom will automatically straighten the photo for you. Then click on one end of the horizon, drag to the other end, and release the mouse. With the crop tool open, click on the straighten icon (shown below). If you have a landscape or nature photo and the horizon is crooked, you can easily straighten it with the help of Lightroom. Straightening a photo can also be done within the crop tool. Then you can select the aspect from the dropdown.įor a more in-depth look at the crop tool and the various options please see How to Crop & Straighten in Lightroom. You can use the keyboard shortcut “R” to access the crop tool. Lightroom’s crop tool is pretty easy to use, and even includes some handy presets for cropping in different aspect ratios. You may also need to crop when you are preparing to print a photo in a specific size. This could be to remove distracting edges, to get closer to the subject, or just to improve the composition. Ideally you’ll want to get the composition just right in the camera, but in reality there will be times when you need to crop a photo. Here is an example of a photo with chromatic aberration.Īnd here is the photo after the box has been checked.

Lightroom makes it really easy to fix chromatic aberration, you just need to check the box. Chromatic aberration is colored fringes that will sometimes appear at the edges of objects, usually where dark and light colors meet. It’s usually subtle, but can help to remove distortion and vignetting from the lens.Īlso in the Lens Corrections settings is the option to remove chromatic aberration. The first check box is for “Lens Profile Correction”, and most photos can be slightly improved through the lens profile correction. The options in the “ Lens Corrections” settings can help to fix various issues related to the lens. In this article we’ll take a look at 17 specific things you can do in Lightroom to enhance and improve your photos. Ever since I started using Lightroom several years ago I have been using Photoshop less and less because there is just so much that you can do in Lightroom, and the workflow can be quicker. Lightroom is an extremely powerful tool for both organizing and editing your photos.

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