Two Clicks Before You Touch a Single Slider: A Lightroom Landscape Editing Walkthrough

Two Clicks Before You Touch a Single Slider: A Lightroom Landscape Editing Walkthrough

There’s a specific kind of frustration I know well: you shoot a landscape at golden hour, the light is incredible, and then you pull the RAW file up in Lightroom and it looks like a screenshot from Google Maps. Flat, weirdly curved, corners darkening like something went wrong with the sensor. That gap between what your eyes saw and what the file shows is where most people either give up or start yanking sliders randomly and wonder why nothing looks right.