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We've all captured bland landscape photos with unimpressive cool tones, and that's usually because the light just wasn't right. While it's often impossible to return on a better day, today's Lightroom tutorial explains a simple Lightroom technique for giving these images an eye-popping Golden Hour look.

How often have you returned from a shoot thinking you captured some great images, only to discover that they look flat and uninspiring on the computer? If you’re like most photographers, you’ve experienced this disappointment more than once or twice.

We typically strive for photos with precise sharpness, vibrance, and impressive color balance when shooting outdoors. But in this tutorial from one of our favorite instructors you'll learn why and how a subdued foggy effect can draw attention by conveying an ethereal, atmospheric mood.

The usual goal when editing our images is to emphasize the capabilities of today’s modern cameras by adjusting colors, contrast and other key variables to achieve a clean, vibrant, natural look. The Photoshop tutorial below switches things up by explaining how to give images a nostalgic appearance with beautiful vintage colors.

Experienced landscape photographers know that some intense colors are difficult to deal with during the editing process, especially when processing images captured just as the sun drops below the horizon. In this tutorial from the PHLOG Photography YouTube channel you'll learn how to render these vibrant tones in Lightroom while achieving a realistic effect.

Masking is a powerful and important technique if you want to get the best results possible when editing your images. And whether you’re a novice or a more advanced user, the video below will help you better understand and use all the various overlay