Lightroom Editing

I like Photoshop. I use it for all of my editing that requires photo compositing. Photo compositing is taking two or more photographs and combining them into a new single photograph. Otherwise I use Lightroom. My editing is pretty basic most of the time.

In the Develop module I work with 5 sliders and occasionally 7 sliders.

For most of my photographs I set

Clarity to +20

Dehaze to +15

Vibrance to +20

Highlights to push to the left to darken the sky when needed

Shadows I push to the right to lightened excessively dark shadows

Whites I only use when I have pushed Highlights to -100 and the sky is still too light

Blacks I only use when I have pushed Shadows to +100 and the shadows are still too dark