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Day 18 of our Lightroom Classic series! Learn to make food photos pop. We’ll show you how to draw focus using masks, adjusting light and saturation to highlight your subject. Plus, discover the power of texture and clarity to add more detail to your images.
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- Kobby Mendez
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AFTER
BEFORE
Elevate Your Visuals
Lightroom Classic simplifies food photo editing, allowing you to quickly enhance your culinary images. Today, we’ll focus on drawing attention to your food by adjusting light, saturation, texture, and clarity.
Adjusting The Background
Begin by masking the background using the “Select Background” tool. Reduce the background’s exposure and saturation to dim it, creating a visual focus on the food. If the mask affects your subject, use the subtract brush to refine the selection, ensuring only the background is altered.
Subject Enhancement
Create a new mask for the subject using “Select Subject.” Increase the subject’s exposure and saturation, while protecting highlights to prevent overexposure. Enhance the subject’s texture and clarity to bring out details and create a mouthwatering effect.
Vignette For Focus
Apply a radial gradient, invert it, and decrease the exposure to create a vignette effect, further emphasizing the food. Adjust the feathering to control the vignette’s softness, ensuring it looks natural and focuses attention on the subject.
That’s a wrap for Day 18! Tomorrow, we’ll delve into the world of black and white photo editing.
