Photoshop How To

The Swiss photographer known as “Yuri Fineart” specializes in shooting landscapes and he offers weekly tutorials on using Lightroom to improve all types of images. In the video below, he demonstrates a few simple techniques for turning a “bad” Raw file into a really nice shot.

In barely five minutes this tutorial takes a well-composed but unspectacular image and demonstrates what it takes to rehabilitate the photograph using a variety of tools like split-toning, radial and gradated filters, saturation adjustments and more.

You can find more editing and landscape photography tips on the Yurifineart YouTube channel, and be sure to look at our recent Lightroom tutorial on eliminating distracting background elements.