This tutorial will present various special effects available in Lightroom 5

Feb 6, 2014 14:11 GMT  ·  By

With the latest version of Lightroom, Adobe introduced a lot of cool new features, such as: the Advanced Healing Brush, the Upright option to automatically straighten images, the Radial Gradient tool, and many others.

Although many of you might know your way around Lightroom to get the best from your photos, new photographers who have just discovered this amazing image editing software might need a little help to learn how all the tools work.

To assist its customers in learning all the insights of Lightroom, Adobe constantly publishes new video tutorials on its YouTube page. In this new tutorial, Julieanne Kost, principal evangelist Photoshop and Lightroom, explains how you can add tonal overlays, selective coloring, edge effects, film grain, and other special effects to your photos.

Check out the video above to learn more on how you can use these special effects to enhance your photos and how you can use the Sync option to apply them to multiple files at the same time.