Stop Editing Your Whole Photo: How Graduated and Radial Filters in Lightroom Changed My Workflow

Stop Editing Your Whole Photo: How Graduated and Radial Filters in Lightroom Changed My Workflow

There’s a specific kind of frustration that comes from pulling your exposure slider in Lightroom and watching the entire image blow out just to save the sky. You wanted to brighten the foreground. Instead you’ve nuked everything. I spent way too long in my early freelance days doing exactly that, then compensating with a pile of overlapping masks in Photoshop, wondering why the whole thing felt like overkill. Turns out, Lightroom has had a cleaner answer built right into it the whole time.