To brighten the area, to see the Camel much more clearly. Note: If you want to undo the edits you made, click on the Reset button (at the bottom). In the panel, at the bottom, below Feather – Select ‘Invert Mask’ which will allow you to do edits inside the Radial Filter (face and body of the Camel). Now, let’s draw a large Radial Filter (create a mask) over the Camel’s face and body to do edits that improve/accentuate the face and body of the Camel. (we’ve marked it in blue in the image for your reference).

Radial Filter helps in improving portraits of people and animals.ġ) Radial Filter (editing certain part of a photo) Radial Filter in Lightroom Now, let’s take your editing skills to the next level by exploring the Radial Filter in the Develop Module which allows you to do selective editing. In the previous blog, we explained how to edit the overall photo in Lightroom using Basic Panel, Color Panel and Effects Panel in the Develop Module. For instance, White Balance is applied by the camera for a JPEG image and hence it gives you fewer options to modify it while post-processing in Lightroom whereas with a RAW file, you have complete control over White Balance with more options for editing in Lightroom.

JPEG is a compressed version of RAW due to compression, some of the image data may be lost. Since RAW format captures all image data/details recorded by the camera sensor without processing it, (the file size is heavy compared to JPEG) it allows you to bring back lost details in the photograph while editing/processing it in Lightroom. With Lightroom, you can do edits/adjustments to enhance the overall photograph as well as certain parts of a photograph (selective editing) to match the original scene that you shot or make edits to the photograph as per your creative vision.

This is where Lightroom comes to our rescue. Often the scenes/subjects come out less bright and colorful than we remember seeing and capturing them with our DSLR camera.

Editing in lightroom for beginners