LIGHTROOM - TOP TIPS AND TRICKS IN EDITING BIRD PHOTOS. Get great results fast!

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Join me in a start to finish edit of a bird photo in Lightroom. I'll show you a basic edit, as well as a more artistic one. Lightroom is a great resource for editing wildlife photos, and I'll show you my top tips and tricks to get the best out of your bird and wildlife photos.

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[martinworos]

Simon, I am a stubborn old man, I don't listen to anybody. I love taking pictures of birds so I watched a few of your videos. I have been spending my time watching all of your videos. I have learned something from every one of them. I like your style of presentation. It's right to the point, relevant, and professional. Until this video, I was barely using a fraction of what the program had to offer. I look forward to following your work.

[brennanlentz]

This dude is legit making the best photography content on youtube.

[youritguy]

Simon, I cannot get enough of your videos.

[edwardcollins]

Thank you so much for this powerful and insightful tutorial. I can not wait for tomorrow to start applying these crafty techniques to my photos.

[liuxn-zlsr]

This is the most detailed video of using lightroom to edit bird photos that I have seen. It is really great. It not only explains the skills of using lightroom, but more importantly, it is a processing idea.Thank you for your videos!

[ericdawson]

This is exceptionally helpful: Your methodical progression through the editing stages, and attention to detail (how to limit a radial mask just to the perch, enrich the brown tones, bring varieties of light to the background) is unlike anything I’ve seen elsewhere from more high-profile YouTubers - and very welcome. Thank you many times over, and I look forward to what you do next.

[kenmarsh]

Really can't thank you enough for these tips and many others you've offered in previous videos. Very good, honest help, and well presented. Well done.

[medi]

This is what I was looking for. There are so many videos on Youtube about editing with LR, but none of them gave me this much help. Thank you man, you are a real G!

[eoslife]

Wow! That was by far the most compressive tutorial on post-processing of birds but done simply. Thanks so much for sharing this! 👌🙏🏻

[thefrostbyte]

I've watched several other Lightroom tutorials and have done some rudimentary processing as I'm just beginning in photography. This video was easily the most helpful. The keyboard and mouse shortcuts were especially helpful. Your style of teaching resonates perfectly with me so I'm really thankful I've found this channel. Thank you for the awesome content and taking your time to help so much.

[ShoesPhoto]

I don't know how I just found your channel a few weeks ago, but I'm sure glad I did. This video, and many from the past year have been so wildly informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[BrettHall-]

i'm a person who really is a novice at LR and you have just help me a whole bunch easy to under stand and very helpful cheers from australia

[paulhudson]

You have once again presented a video that is top quality, easy to understand, and in depth on the many ways to make a photo better. I now have a better understanding of why my photos look great at the end, but when posted on Facebook they are so much noise. Thank you for your presentation.

[dragngirle]

As a mostly beginner of using Photoshop, this is extremely helpful! I like that I can easily follow along while editing my own photos in hopes that it will become memorized. Thank you for the video!

[christinewong]

I am new to bird photography and light room editing. Recently found your channel and can’t thank you enough for your systematic and detailed explanations and demonstration.

[davet]

Excellent Simon. I’d like add a tip to what you have so clearly explained and demonstrated, and that is the use of virtual copies. For those who don’t know what they are, Lightroom allows the creation of multiple versions of the original file without altering the original file. For example after the first stage of developing the image, that file is saved. From there a person can right click the file to make a virtual copy and the start point is the initial editing that was done in that initial development, from there they can apply the ‘artistic edits’ that you showed in your video. When that file is saved the library will have both edited copies available to choose from. Another example is that various crops of this image could be saved e.g horizontal or vertical.
Thanks for your excellent videos Simon I appreciate them.

[jsmith]

I followed your guide with one of my bird photos and was blown away by the results! Thanks so much for the excellent editing guide!

[pedzsan]

Lots of neat tips. I'm very glad I watched it.

The other day I was in a restaurant and noticed an advertisement where they used desaturation to most but not all of the image to draw your eye to what was not desaturated. There is also the artistic trick of making the image black and white except the subject which is in full color. I had the thought that I'm going to try desaturating the background when I edit my next photograph.  I'm thinking that slightly desaturating the background will make it less obvious so the viewer won't be conscious of the manipulation giving an even stronger effect.

I also usually "blur" the background by moving the texture, clarity, and sharpening sliders (for the background mask) to the left.

[yvonnerichard]

Excellent tips. The magenta correction is particularly useful I think. Didn't occur to me to use the temp slider - I usually adjust the tint, or use a local brush with a mix of green and desaturating, but the results are not always what I want. This is simple and it does work, at least on brown! Thanks Simon!

[nataliaE]

Best Lightroom tutorial so far I found on YouTube! Thank you