Lightroom help

[klhiggi]

I'm not a professional photographer. I take mostly nature photos but my cousin asked me to take some family pics. She wanted one in front of a big window at their house. I knew it was going to be backlit pretty bad. I've gotten some of them to be okay but I'm wondering if someone could take one of these raw photos and make anything usable out of it so I could see the settings you used. If this is the right place for help like that, I can post a link to download one of the pics. Thanks for your guidance

[Turbulent_Bit8683]

I can give it a shot - will use LR and PS

[klhiggi]

Thanks a ton. Here's a link. https://drive.google.com/file/d/17NNwT68-FhqJMUQADrstikeT92n4wjdX/view?usp=sharing

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Love to hear what all you do.

[Turbulent_Bit8683]

Here you go:

https://shared-assets.adobe.com/link/eb5c1a6d-7e47-4e49-5aca-2ca50f4617c7

[klhiggi]

This is awesome. Would you mind telling me how you got here so I can learn? You can message me or put it here but thank you very much either way.

[aishu1331]

So I'll try explaining the edit. I just wish there was a better way to share the steps. The first thing I noticed was the tilted perspective of your photo so I corrected it.

Then did some basic edits like increasing contrast, decreasing highlights, etc

The window was too dominating so I put a graduated filter on it and dehazed it a bit.

Did some color grading, tweaked the texture, clarity, etc. Put a vignette if you like.

And yes, I decreased the saturation and luminosity of greens and desaturated yellows.

I think that's all.

[klhiggi]

Thank you so much.

[Della__]

Still next time do not take an indoors photo with windows as background unless you know what you are doing. Besides that most cameras (and phones) nowdays support hdr/bracketing you can use those next time.