Color Grading – Lightroom Tutorials

Turn your Plain Photos into a Retro Film-Like Prints

April 6, 2020

Here’s a great Lightroom tutorial that’ll show you how to create an awesome red/blue cross-process photo with a retro round border! This tutorial will teach you how to apply a …

How to Achieve VSCO-Style in Lightroom in 3 Steps

April 5, 2020April 5, 2020

Create your own random VSCO-style effect in Lightroom with these simple steps. This tutorial shows how you can mix a tone curve adjustment with completely random color adjustments to create your own film-like effect.

How to Achieve the Masashi Wakui Look

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020

Masashi Wakui is popular for his captivating night photos of Japan. Wakui’s photos have this unique color effect that adds a touch of emotion to it. But what’s special is not the effect, but the technique used to create the effect. It involves just moving the existing nodes in the Tone Curve settings – you don’t even need to add any nodes. This technique can be used to create a variety of faded effects.

Quick Tip: How to Invert Photos in Lightroom

April 3, 2020

Lightroom has no option to invert photos but using an easy trick with the Tone Curve, you can invert any photos you like! This is great for giving your photos an x-ray look or even to simply invert your slides/film/scans back to its original colors without having to go through Photoshop.

How to Get the Desaturated Look

March 30, 2020

One of the most common effects on Instagram is the desaturated look that looks close to grayscale but not exactly. The reds and blues are still there but the rest of the colors are gray. This effect is used for fashion, rooftopping and all sorts of photos. An example of this is Jacqueline Mikuta’s Instagram. In this tutorial, I’ll show you the recipe to create this look easily.

How to Create an Instagram Nashville-Like Photo Effect in Lightroom

March 29, 2020

Want to learn a photo effect that makes almost any photo look better? This Lightroom tutorial will show you how! It’s a photo effect similar to the Instagram Nashville effect …

How to Create Cool Retro Lomo/Crossprocess Effects Using Lightroom

March 25, 2020

Have you ever wanted to give your photos an hipster retro look? Like the look that Holga and other Lomo cameras create? This Lightroom tutorial will show you how to create this look using a combination of settings. Best of all, you can create a preset out of this and apply it to any photos using one click. Follow this tutorial then download the free Lightroom preset!

How to get Beautiful Purple-Grad Sunset Colors in Seconds!

March 22, 2020

What do you do with boring daylight photos? Here’s a color effect you can add in seconds with Lightroom! This Lightroom tutorial will show you how to do this with just a warm white balance, purple gradual filter, and a little split toning.