My first in Lightroom 3. C&C please

My fiance is a teacher at two local high schools and one of the schools she teaches at is offering a digital media class from now until april 10th. For taking it she gets a free copy of lightroom 3, PS elements, and a digital camera that takes stills and video.

I installed LR tonight and went straight to work playing in it. I took this pic she took of her car and toyed with it.

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you just alterd the wb ?
original is more correct then the edit..

the wb is incorrect , highlights look more blown out because of the colors (probably)

recommend some tutorials before actually editing pictures

just my 2 cents

WB, and other really minor adjustments. I definitely don't this particular edit seriously at all as I was just playing with the software trying to get acclimated with it somewhat. I liked what came out of it and wanted some advice. Thanks for yours .

I like what you were going for with the blue in the upper left corner. Perhaps a blue gradient in that corner would have given you a similar effect while maintaining the original white balance for the rest of the image.

Have you discovered the white balance eyedropper tool yet. So nice, you can move the eyedropper around the photo and see the effects on white balance in the small preview window. One of my favorite features.

There are zillions of tutorial videos our there. The more you learn, the more you'll realize how much there is to learn.

I see some color noise that you should be able to get rid of pretty easily in the detail tab. Whenever you push a file to a higher exposure, remember that you will introduce more noise into the image and you may have to compensate for that. I dont mind the shift the the bluer tone, it adds more of a mood, as an off white balance often does. That said, you went slightly too far I think, and id pull it back a little bit. It looks like the highlights on the car are being blown out, which is fairly unattractive in this particular case. You can try and use the recovery slider under the basic tab to bring back some lost detail. You can also use the tone curve to reduce unwanted highlights.

I see crude on the tire, which you can remove with the spot removal tool. Same with whats on the ground by the tire. Remember there are 2 modes with the spot tool, healing and clone. Switch between them and use what ever works best. When ever i work with the spot removal tool I make sure is display mode is set on auto(from the default always). You can check to make sure in the tool bar under the photo, if that tool bar isnt there press T and it will show up. When its on auto you can move your cursor out of the image area and get a quick idea of what everything looks like without the spot overlays. Good for checking for seams.

cacawcacaw wrote in post #11855295
I like what you were going for with the blue in the upper left corner. Perhaps a blue gradient in that corner would have given you a similar effect while maintaining the original white balance for the rest of the image.

Have you discovered the white balance eyedropper tool yet. So nice, you can move the eyedropper around the photo and see the effects on white balance in the small preview window. One of my favorite features.

There are zillions of tutorial videos our there. The more you learn, the more you'll realize how much there is to learn.

I really wanted a more "blue" look over all so I changed that with the temperature slider.

Found the videos in the Lightroom sticky on Adobe.com, truly a wealth of info.

StayLucky wrote in post #11855414
I really wanted a more "blue" look over all so I changed that with the temperature slider.

Found the videos in the Lightroom sticky on Adobe.com, truly a wealth of info.

Nothing wrong with using a "creatively incorrect" white balance so long as you realize what you're doing and don't end up doing that inadvertently where it doesn't work.

Enjoy playing around with it, it's a lot of fun just experimenting with things in lightroom while you're getting to know it. Tutorials are very necessary, but I also found it quite helpful to just open a picture up and go through all the settings one at a time and move the sliders around to watch the effect everything has.

Practice practice practice.........creat​ive minds are all start somewhere.

Have fun with it