Beginner, Intermediate, or Pro? Here's How Your Lightroom Edit Actually Gives You Away

Beginner, Intermediate, or Pro? Here's How Your Lightroom Edit Actually Gives You Away

Every once in a while, a tutorial reframes something I thought I already understood. I’ve been editing in Lightroom long enough that I named my first preset pack after a Wilco album, but watching Nigel Danson work through the same two photos at three different skill levels made me pause and audit my own habits. Not because the tools were unfamiliar. Because the thinking behind them was. The premise of Watch the full tutorial on YouTube is deceptively simple: take two landscape photos and edit each one the way a beginner, intermediate, and pro would approach them.