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Back to Basics – Part 6C: Print Preparation for Underwater Photography in Lightroom Classic (2026 Guide)

By Robert Herb Photography
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Back to Basics – Part 6C: Preparing your underwater photography for professional-quality prints using Lightroom Classic. From Screen Glow to Gallery Wall Oceanic Explorers, Up to this point in the Back-to-Basics series, you have learned how to: Organize and catalog your images Follow a structured Develop workflow Master white balance and exposure Control presence and color Apply masking with intention Export correctly for digital platforms We are now entering a new phase. This is the moment when your underwater photography transforms from digital images into physical prints. Because printing is not simply exporting, it is a process of translation. A monitor emits light to display images, while a print reflects light to display images. That fundamental difference changes everything about how we perceive and prepare images for print. Today, we will walk through professional-level print preparation using Adobe Lightroom Classic (LrC) . This software remains one of the s...
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Back to Basics – Part 6B: Exporting Underwater Photos for Social Media Without Losing Color or Detail (2026 Edition)

By Robert Herb Photography
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Why underwater photos can lose color and detail after social media compression – and how to fix it. When Your “WOW” Turns into “Why?” Oceanic Explorers, You nailed the shot. A beautiful hawksbill turtle glides gracefully through the clear blue waters off Roatan. The vibrant reef glows. The red colors are finally back. The water column looks perfectly smooth. In Lightroom, it looks exactly like you remember it. Now all that is left is to upload it to Instagram and share the moment. Suddenly: The blues look flat The reds look nuclear The shadows look muddy The fine coral texture looks soft And you wonder: “Why does this look different than Lightroom?” Here is the truth. Social media platforms aggressively compress, reinterpret, and rebuild your file. If you do not export correctly, they will do it for you. And they will not do it gently. In Part 6A, we focused on exporting underwater photos without losing quality. In Part 6B, we focus on exporting specifically for social media so your im...
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Location: Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras
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Back to Basics – Part 6A: Exporting Underwater Photos from Lightroom Without Losing Quality

By Robert Herb Photography
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Getting Your Underwater Photos Out of Lightroom Without Losing Quality An underwater image may look perfect inside Lightroom, but export settings determine how it appears on social media, in print, and everywhere else. If you’ve been following the Back-to-Basics series up to this point, you’ve spent a lot of time working inside Lightroom. You’ve learned how to build a solid foundation using proper white balance, tone, and color. You understand how clarity, texture, and dehaze can either enhance an image or quietly ruin it. You’ve learned when to stop and how selective masking allows you to refine an underwater photo without making it look artificial. By the end of Part 5G , you should feel confident that you can make an underwater photograph look right inside Lightroom. But this is where many photographers hit a frustrating wall. A photo that looked rich and balanced in Lightroom suddenly looks dull on Instagram. Blues shift. Reds disappear. Prints come back darker than expected. F...
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Location: Roatán, Bay Islands, Honduras
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