Wedding photography is nothing less than a marathon. Every bride and groom wants to capture each moment of their wedding day and cherish it forever. And the responsibility is up to the photographer to make their wish come true. 

Only pressing the shutter button isn’t enough to nail any photo. The post-production work on any photo matters as much as taking the picture does. 

It’s just not about taking photos that a photographer does. It’s about telling the story of joy, happiness, and love through the shots. Today, this article is filled with eight pro tips to help you nail the job and mesmerize the wedding photos.

8 Pro Editing Tips to Make Wedding Photo Gorgeous

Photo editing includes many fields that one can work on. The viewer may not be able to catch the differences. But among all the other changes, wedding photo color correction is the one that catches everyone’s eyes the most. Here are the top 8 pro editing tips suggested by the professional that can change your photo 

1. Cropping

We all know that cropping is just a tool to cut out the unnecessary portion from a photo, right? But what if we tell you that the cropping tool does more than eliminate the useless part. 

Yes, you heard us right. Lightroom’s crop tool can straighten any curved line along with adjusting a perfect ratio of 8×10. 

Top reasons why you’d want to crop a photo are:

• To place focus on the main subject
• Increasing the composition to the next level.
• Eliminating distracting objects and delivering more exciting photos.

Pro tip: Use the ⅓rd rule while cropping an image leaving the ⅔ rd open. This way, you can get a well-composed shot.

1. Removing Noise

Photos taken in low light often cause tiny fuzzy specks called “Noise” in photography and ruin good shots. Typically, an image can have two types of noise: color noise and luminance noise. Color noise occurs when the color of any shot is distorted. And luminance noise is when low-light causes visible grain in any photo. 

Photo editors like Lightroom, Vosco allow you to use a beautifying filter and reduce noise from any photo. 

Pro tip: Try to remove the color noise first from any photo before working on the luminance noise. Otherwise, you can mess up with the photo quality.

1. Brightening Up

While capturing 100 photos, you might miss some great shots because of dull lighting. Brightening up tools in any editing app will help you eliminate the dark edges and shades. Adjusting the brightness of a faded photo will give you perfect visibility and color, making it a splendid shot.

Some photos might not need an overall change in brightness; in that case, you can use the brush tool available in editing apps to adjust the brightness of specific parts.

1. Contrasting

Often photo contrasting is mentioned as similar, or we can say a cousin of adjusting brightness by professionals. Rather than balancing the color of a photo to upgrade the photo level, contrasting focuses on changing the shadows and highlights. It can be pretty daunting for beginners to adjust the contrasting, so the most accessible option we would suggest is to change the amount and see which number suits the photo best. You can also explore online for presets and apply them.

1. Clone Tool

Cloning helps you discard minor defects or an annoying object that can catch one’s eyes in a photo. Actually, major defects can also be eliminated by clone stamping. 

This feature available in editing softwares can solve close face photos, where blemishes, wrinkles, pimples, or any spot that can reduce the quality of a shot.

1. Sharpness

You can’t keep all the photos up to marks while capturing. It’s natural that some good candid shots might get destroyed because of continuous motion. Like other editing tools, sharpening also acts as a savior to not let the photos go in vain. The sharpening is adjusted by moderating the local contrast adjustment. But now, editing software allows the editors to adjust sharpening separately.

Candid photos that you thought you couldn’t edit because of blur vision can be sorted out. An out-of-focus shot can turn into a mesmerizing one just by adjusting the sharpness. But don’t overdo the sharpening, or else the photo will look abnormal and have a visible hollow effect. Before applying the sharpening, you should know if your image truly needs the adjustment or not.

1. Dodge and Burn

Dodge and burn tool is used to organize exposure in certain areas to give your photos a more compelling and dramatic vibe. Even though they are known tools, their work is divided into two parts.

The dodge tool eliminates the light and overshadows the wedding photo. In contrast, the burn tool brings out hidden features in attention. And combining both features, the tool delivers a magical image that the newly married couple can cherish and live forever.

1. Background Manipulation

Manipulating a wedding image’s background is another feature that you can work on to bring the best vibe and make it look stunning. Background manipulation allows you to change the background and blur it to edit unwanted or distracting objects. Some candid moments can go in vain if the background is full of people or objects. But the manipulating tool will have your back to save the photos straight-up going to the trash folder. Using this tool wisely will bring unexpected results even from a typical shot.

Conclusion

Editing wedding photos can even make your “mistakes” into such unexpected results that can stun the viewer. Editing needs a steady hand and quite an amount of time to bring out the best. Only a specific number of tips might not be enough, but we tried our best to gather the key pro editing tips that can be a game-changer. our advice for you is to take your camera, capture moments, and edit as many photos as you can. The more practice you can do, the more you can learn, improve and gain.

Feel free to share your insight and experience of editing wedding photography using our top 8 editing tips. We will look forward to your comments.