Adobe Lightroom - Dramatic sky edit in your landscape photos

HI everyone,
I would like to share some basic lightroom tutorial for that dramatic sky effect you can see in landscape photos.



It is important to shoot in RAW so you have more options to edit your photo.

When you are in Lightroom do some basic exposure correction, it depends on overall expouse of the photo you've taken, I usually do 0 in my camera and then set it to -0,30 -0,50 in Lightroom.

Go to Graduated Filter (W)in the right bar (right under histogram - 4th icon from the left). Click on the top of your photo where the sky is and drag it until you reach the horizon of your photo. Then you can correct exposure of the mask you have created (red area - if you do not see the red color of your mask, you can enable it in the bottom bar - tick Show selected mask overlay option). To create this dramatic sky effect you can can put it from -1 to -1,75 and also edit the Highlights slidebar into the negative position (for example -50)

Than you have to play a little with other slide bars like shadows, whites, blacks etc. and do color correction - that would be different in every photo if its not the same location.

Hope it will help, i will answer questions in comments below.

Good Luck!