Improve Your Photos

Sometimes you get a photo right in-camera. It’s a goal you should aim for, but it doesn’t always happen.

You can be more free when photographing a scene when you know how to edit in Lightroom CC, whether that’s reframing the shot by cropping it, adjusting the lighting to be more balanced, or applying a filter that gives it a unique look.

Essential Editing Basics

These are the foundation-level tasks you’ll perform again and again until they’re second nature (which happens pretty quickly):

  • Open the Edit panel: With a photo selected in the Grid or Detail views, click the Edit button, or simply press E. The Edit panel opens ...

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