Masters Academy

Processing Practice: Dubai Creek Harbor

In this lesson I demonstrate how I transformed a sub-par image into a very usable version using a combination of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. In the process, you should learn a good number of tips about using the masking features in Lightroom and how to get around their limitations by incorporating Photoshop techniques.

Note: The downloadable practice image for this lesson has been compressed into a .zip archive. You will need to double-click on it after downloading to extract its contents before attempting to open the image in Lightroom Classic or Photoshop.

IDEA: If you want to use Lightroom’s features to work with this image, but don’t want to import it into your Lightroom Classic catalog, then this would be a good time to use Lightroom CC’s Local Tab as an alternative. That what I do for “fleeting images”, meaning stuff that I don’t want to keep track of long-term.