From Dull to WOW #7: Exporting Your Finished Underwater Photo Without Losing Quality
The final step in the underwater Lightroom workflow is exporting the finished image with the right settings for its purpose, whether it will be used on a blog, social media, portfolio, or print. How to choose the right Lightroom export settings for blogs, social media, portfolios, and print Exporting underwater photos from Lightroom is the final step that protects the quality of your finished edit. If you choose the wrong file format, color space, image size, sharpening, or quality setting, a strong underwater photo can look soft, flat, over-compressed, or strangely colored once it leaves Lightroom. If you have followed this From Dull to WOW case-study series from the beginning, you have seen how much difference a clear Lightroom workflow can make. We started with an underwater photo that looked flat, dull, and far removed from what we experienced on the dive. Step by step, we worked through the process: White Balance → Exposure → Presence → Color → Masking → Final Cleanup → E...