Cinematic edits

How to give your colours, tones and composition a cinematic makeover

There are many ways we can use Lightroom on our iPhone or iPad to give a photo a more cinematic look. We could simply slap a preset on to our image to change its colours and tones but this runs the risk of making our processed shot look just like one produced by other Lightroom users.

Movie makers use a process called grading to change the tone, hue and saturation of a shot’s colours to give them a more striking appearance, such as accentuating the green hue of an cityscape’s neon lights for example.