Editing Spooky Photos for Halloween

This year, Halloween is different. Therefore, as a photographer, you need to use your imagination to create something different. In this Lightroom tip, I share some editing spooky photo tips.

By using Lightroom and Photoshop, you can take the spookiness of your pictures to the next level. In this article, I cover an advanced Lightroom Editing technique for your Halloween fun!

Let’s Make Really Spooky Photo Using Lightroom Techniques!

Lightroom has many hidden gems, and Colour Grading, previously known as Split Toning, is one.

What is the Color Grading/Split Toning?

Color Grading is one of those Advanced Lightroom Techniques. In short, Color Grading allows you to assign different colour tones to Midtones, Highlights and Shadows. This unique Lightroom technique can remove the colour cast, but I used it to modify highlights and shadows in this image. This little adjustment changed the whole photograph to a fantastic spooky photo!

Here is the Original Picture:

After a few editing and using the new Lightroom Color Grading tool, I made a cute picture into a spooky photo.

Using the Lightroom advanced editing techniques and Photoshop power, you can make any cute pictures into really spooky ones. Here is an example.

Use your imagination and Lightroom skills to make pictures scarier this Halloween.

Do you want to learn more?

Adobe Replaced the Split Toning to Color Grading. Here is a link to one of my previous articles about Split Toning. You can follow the same steps. Let me know if you have any questions. Check it out:

LIGHTROOM SPLIT TONING/COLOR GRADING TOOL

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Ted and the Omnilargess Team