What adjustments do you do when I out source to a photo editing company?

When you outsource your photo editing as a photographer, you want your photos edited the way you edit your own photos. That's why we created a list with all the adjustment we do while editing your photos. The only thing we don't do is retouching or removing subjects from the photos like emergency signs. This is where our Photoshop service comes in.

Photo edits we do in Lightroom:

Local adjustments

Crop tool: if you have checked this during the ‘Get Started form’ that you want your photos to be cropped, we will crop them for you. There are 4 ways of cropping your photos at The Editing Studio; straighten out, crop or crop out disturbing elements or none of the above.

Adjustment Brush: where necessary we can make certain images lighter or darker with an adjustment brush.

Graduated filter: where necessary we can make certain images lighter or darker with a graduated filter.

Radial filter: where necessary we can make certain images lighter or darker with a radial filter.

White Balance: we always try to edit your photos in your style. If you have a preference for warmer or colder looking photos, we will keep this in mind while editing. Otherwise we will edit your images whitebalance as naturel as possible.

Tone

Exposure: whether you go for a moody editing style or light and airy, we will add the right amount of exposure to your photos while editing.

Contrast: we will make sure that we edit and add the amount of contrast added to your photos. If we feel there’s enough of contrast already we won’t do anything, but if we feel like it is too much for your editing style, we will adjust this.

Highlights: where necessary we will adjust the highlight slider in Lightroom while editing, this way you won’t have bright over exposed spots without detail in your photos.

Shadows: where necessary we will adjust the shadow slider in Lightroom while editing, this way you won’t have dark and under exposed spots without detail in your photos, unless that makes the photo better.

Whites: where necessary we will adjust the whites slider in Lightroom while editing, this way you won’t have bright over exposed spots without detail in your photos.

Blacks: where necessary we will adjust the blacks slider in Lightroom while editing, this way you won’t have dark and under exposed spots without detail in your photos, unless that makes the photo better.

Presence

Texture: this is a fairly new feature in Lightroom which we don’t use a lot while editing.

Clarity: while editing weddings there are certain moments that deserve a little clarity to make the photos better, this can be party photos or other parts in the wedding that ask for a little extra.

Dehaze: we use this tool sometimes when we need to, like when we lose contrast when we have photos with sunflare. We only use this tool at that specific moment.

Vibrance: this is a Lightroom slider we don’t touch that often while editing photos, unless we have the feeling it will improve your photos or complement your style. This slider is very sensitive so we’re pretty cautious with it.

Saturation: this is a Lightroom slider we don’t touch that often while editing photos, unless we have the feeling it will improve your photos or complement your style. This slider is very sensitive so we’re pretty cautious with it.

Tonecurve

We don’t usually touch the tonecurve in Lightroom because we believe this is something that should be done right within the preset. If you have any doubts about your tonecurve in your presets, let us know when you outsource your photo editing to us, we can have a look at it for you!

HSL/Color

Sometimes it happens that the colors are to overwhelming or not naturel. That’s why we look at each photo individually if there needs adjustments to be done with the HSL sliders in Lightroom. An example we might come across while editing your photos is; orange skins that have too much orange, too bright or too green tints in trees or just a yellow dress that hurt your eyes, we will fix this for you in Lightroom.

Split toning

We don’t usually use split toning because this is really personal and lots of times already fixed in your preset that you send to us. We won’t do any adjustment because this affects the look and feel of your photos too much otherwise.

detail

Sharpening: when you tell us you like to sharpen your photos we will do this obviously, but we only do this upon request because this is personal. Do you have a sharpening preset? Send this along with your other presets.

Noise reduction: when you tell us you like to reduce noise in certain photos, we will do this obviously, but we only do this upon request because this is personal. Do you have a noise reductions preset? Send this along with your other presets.

lenscorrections

Lenscorrections is an important part in editing photos in Lightroom. All lens failures will be removed when we toggle the switch. Most of the times it means that the corners will be slightly lighter exposed and perspective is fixed. If you have saved lenscorrections in your preset we will keep it on, if you don’t, we will ask you what we need to do with this. When we apply lenscorrections it has a great effect on photos, so we will always ask.

transformation

We use the transformation tool quite a lot in Lightroom, mainly to change the perspective and lines of building to make sure that your photos are straight. We don’t apply this to all photos, just the ones where it is needed.

effects

Vignetting: some photos do require some vignetting, to focus on the subject for example. While editing photos we will add vignetting sometimes to make a photo better or to mask the distracting corners. We won’t apply this to all the photos unless it is applied in your preset.

Grain: we don’t make use of the grain slider unless you have added grain in your presets, then we will leave it as it is.