Mind blowing post processing tips for professional photographers

One of the most important parts of digital photography is post processing. Sometimes it is misunderstood that post processing damages the natural shape of photos. But it is equivalent and important like darkroom. It is where you can perform clipping path, retouch, manipulation, color correction and other post processing to make the final product.

Leveling your photos:

Leveling the photo is the basic compositional concept. It is very annoying when the horizontal line is not level in the photo. It is a big error but it can be fixed in post processing.

Leveling a photo is very easy. When we capture a photo, it seems that the photo is level with the horizon. But when you zoom the photo you can understand the photo is not level. You can use lightroom to level your photos. The level tool is included in crop tool. When you apply it, you will see a grid. You can use it to correct the alignment.

Leveling is a super simple task and takes few seconds to perform. It results more eye pleasing image.

Using crop tool:

The crop tool is very helpful. You can change the aspect ratio and image size using this. As an example, you can crop a rectangular image to a square shape image. People use cropping tool for publishing photos in different aspect ratios and formats.

Handling the cropping tool is very simple. All you have to do just select the area you want to crop and then apply the changes. That’s it! You will get a new cropped image.

Learn about highlights and shadows:

Every photo has two sides. A darker and another is brighter. The dark side is called shadows and the brighter side is known as highlights. The problem of the highlights and shadow can be solved by controlling the brightness of the respective areas. It can be controlled by highlight and shadow tool.

This shadow and highlight tool works well on raw images rather than compressed JPG image. It is because raw image contains more details than JPG image.

Vignetting effect:

Vignetting is carried out to make the photo areas lighter or darker than other areas. It is done to clear the subject of the photo.

Many software do not support it but you can use it in Lightroom and Snapseed application. Vignetting effect is good for portrait photography. You can use it to make the subject more obvious in front of your audience.

Contrast adjustment:

Contrast adjustment makes the difference between the dark and light parts of the images. The contrast enhancement can dramatically change the visual of any image. It clears the light and dark boundaries and improves the visual appeal of the image.

Color correction:

Color correction is very important photo editing technique. You can change the color in all kind of ways. You can change the hue and saturation of certain color or change the warmth of the photo.

The saturation tool is the quickest way to change the color. It can change every color appearance of any image to make it less or more saturated. You can apply the saturation tool to create a black and white photo.

These are some important photo post processing tips for professional photographers. I hope, you enjoy the tips and apply it in your post processing. Thank you very much.