From Crooked Columns to Clean Architecture: A Lightroom Intermediate Editing Walkthrough

From Crooked Columns to Clean Architecture: A Lightroom Intermediate Editing Walkthrough

There’s a specific kind of photo that lives in everyone’s archive: technically salvageable, visually promising, but currently a disaster. Bad white balance, geometry that looks like a funhouse mirror, and some mystery fringing along the edges for good measure. I keep a folder full of them. They’re the images I shot years ago before I knew what I was doing, and every time I open them I have to decide whether they’re worth the fight.