My Color Grading Workflow for Raw Photos in Lightroom Classic

In this #Lightroom #ColorGrading Video I’m showing you my workflow for getting beautiful, warm sunrise colors for your landscape photos.

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0:00 Intro
For this landscape photo, I wanted to get back the warm sunrise light, especially on the mountain face in the back. Also, I wanted to restore details, mostly from the darker parts in the foreground to have a nicely balanced exposure. Obviously, the colors are a bit stronger in the after one, but that’s just how I like my photos. Also, 95% of the editing was done in Lightroom Classic, while I used Photoshop to clean up the image and do a little bit of dodging in the foreground.

0:17 1. Basic Adjustments
First off, I switched the camera profile to Adobe Landscape for more saturation. To get warmer tones, I started by raising the white balance temperature and played around with the tint to reduce magentas a bit. For a nicely balanced exposure, I dropped the highlights, raised the shadows, added whites and finally added some blacks. This reduces contrast but gives the image a dreamier look which I like.

2:20 2. Local Adjustments
Using a luminance Range mask, I targeted the shadows of the photo and the dropped the temperature and the tint to further reduce unnatural color cast in the dark parts. Then, I added a sky selection making the left part of the sky darker by dropping the exposure. Finally, I added a radial gradient on the right side and added some whites to make the area brighter.

4:49 3. Color Grading
First, I started with the hue in the HSL panel. I dropped the yellow hue to make the mountain in the back more orange. Then, I slightly dropped the purple hue, giving the sky some more blue tones. Also, I pushed the magenta hue making the clouds more orange as well. Then, I dropped the blue saturation and the blue luminance, making the sky darker.

7:58 4. Photoshop
Using the spot healing brush, I cleaned up the image from distracting objects first. Then, with the TK Panel plug in and an overlay layer I carefully dodged the mid-tones in the foreground making them slightly brighter.