My Lightroom Photo-Editing Software Adventure!

I recently decided to purchase Adobe Lightroom 4 for editing my pictures! I am so excited about it because I've never had photo-editing software before. I've been using the free trial version for the past day before I actual open and use the software I bought because my cousin is rebuilding my computer this weekend to make it brand new again.

I thought I'd share some of the photos I've been messing around with! It's addicting, fun, and makes me want to learn so much more! I've always loved taking pictures- but this is really starting to open up a whole new level of fun for me!

Picture one: Bennett and I from his baby dedication.

I played a lot with the luminance tool so I could eliminate the noise for this one and worked on manually blurring the background. This was the first picture I've ever edited! It was so much fun!

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Picture 2: Bennett eating cheese at my mom and dad's house today during lunch. I was also practicing using my Aperture settings on my camera so I wouldn't have to blur the background later while editing. It worked! Yay for F-stop settings! :o)

I used the vibrance tool to bring out the blues and also brought out the blacks in this picture.

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Picture 3 & Picture 4: The boys postin' up @ Santiva on Captiva Island. & Us girls at Wild Wings in Greenville.

I worked with high contrast in black in whites and the luminance tool to eliminate the noise again.

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Picture 5: Stevie and Chris on his birthday.

I focused on blurring the background, contrast, adding in and correcting whites, bringing in blacks, using vibrance tool again to really make the polarized glasses stand out.

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I'm really excited about learning all there is to learn about Lightroom! It seems like there is so much in the program! I'm doing really basic things right now, but I'm so motivated to learn the more difficult editing techniques. I've been on Pinterest and on a bunch of websites trying to research tips and tutorials.

I also purchased Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 even though I really wanted to get Photoshop CS6. The price tag was a little hefty for me right now at $700 bucks! :o( Maybe eventually!

If you're interested in purchasing Lightroom try the free online trial first! It's really helped me!

Happy editing...and if anyone has any cool Lightroom tricks I'm all ears! :o)