Underwater Art - Your Ultimate Guide to Underwater Photography Editing
Your photos aren’t bad, you just need to learn how to edit them!
Welcome to Underwater Art - Your Underwater Photography Journey’s Best Friend!
Underwater photography presents a very unique set of challenges—from loss of lighting and unwanted colour shifts to backscatter and noise. While capturing an good shot in-camera is essential, the post-processing is where you truly bring your underwater images to life.
This guide is designed to walk you through the editing techniques I personally use to transform my RAW underwater photos into my signature contrasted, high-quality edited artworks.
🥜 In a nutshell, this guide is everything my younger self needed to know (and spent years learning myself) about the underwater photography and post-production editing process!
Why Editing is Essential for Underwater Photography
Are your RAW images green and flat straight from the camera?
Water absorbs and scatters light differently to air, causing images to lose contrast, sharpness, and natural colours—especially reds and yellows. Even with proper camera settings and lighting techniques, RAW images can often appear a yucky blue or green colour with muted tones. Post-processing allows you to correct these issues, bringing back the colours, depth, and clarity that make your underwater shots stand out. Even your ‘worst’ images are salvageable, trust me!
What’s Inside?
📖 Step-by-step Lightroom editing tutorials
🎨 Colour correction and tone adjustments
🖌️ Advanced masking techniques for precision edits
🔍 Noise reduction and sharpening strategies
📷 Before & after real-world editing examples
🎥 Access to a real-time editing process example video from Kendall
Access to an exclusive Instagram group chat where everyone can share their UW photography experiences, advice and ideas, solve common problems and encourage each other’s growth!
What You’ll Learn with Underwater Art
This guide is structured to help you navigate the most important aspects of underwater photo editing, regardless of your experience level. Some of the key highlights include:
Essential Camera Settings & Photography Tips to get you started! Are your images blurry, grainy, or too light / dark? You will learn how to change this and use correct photography settings for your preferred underwater environment!
White Balance & Colour Correction – Learn how to restore natural colours by adjusting white balance and using colour grading techniques in Adobe Lightroom CC.
Exposure & Contrast Adjustments – Master the use of highlights, shadows, and tone curves to create balanced and dynamic images.
AI Noise Reduction – Understand how to remove unwanted grain while preserving essential details, especially in low-light shots.
Clarity & Sharpness Enhancements – Fine-tune textures and details to make your subjects pop without over-processing.
Removing Backscatter & Distractions – Use spot removal and healing tools to clean up unwanted particles and distractions in your image.
Presets & Workflow Optimisation – Discover how to create a streamlined editing process using Lightroom presets for efficiency and consistency.
Who This Guide is For
Whether you're new to underwater photography or looking to refine your post-processing skills, or simply curious to learn how I edit my own images with my signature editing style! This guide will provide you with instructions and real-world examples to help you achieve professional results. My approach to this guide balances technical precision with creative expression, which ensures that your final edits reflect a natural transformation as well as incorporating your unique artistic style.
📍 Designed for photographers of all levels
📍 Perfect for freedivers, scuba divers, and ocean lovers
📍 No complicated jargon—just clear, practical guidance
My Editing Philosophy
As a professional underwater photographer, I believe in enhancing images while keeping them authentic. The goal is not to overly manipulate or artificially saturate colours but to bring out the richness and depth that the human eye perceives underwater. By following the techniques in this guide, you’ll be able to create clean, compelling underwater images that are true to the moment you captured!
Get Instant Access & Start Editing Today
✅ Immediate digital download (you will receive a link to download the file which will expire 24 hours after the first download)
✅ Easy-to-follow techniques for quick results
✅ Lifetime access—edit at your own pace
Why Lightroom CC instead of Lightroom Classic?
This is one of my most frequently asked questions when teaching my work! While I sometimes do work with Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC is ideal for photographers who prefer a mobile, cloud-based, and AI-powered editing solution. Unlike Lightroom Classic, which requires local storage, Lightroom CC syncs edits across all devices, making it perfect for those who travel frequently or edit on the go (like myself). If I don’t have access to my laptop or want to process a quick edit, I can do so seamlessly on my phone!
For those new to underwater photo editing, Lightroom CC offers a more accessible and intuitive experience. It is designed with simplicity in mind, making it easier for beginners to navigate and apply edits without getting overwhelmed by complex menus 🧠
Ready to transform your underwater photography? Grab your copy now!
Your photos aren’t bad, you just need to learn how to edit them!
Welcome to Underwater Art - Your Underwater Photography Journey’s Best Friend!
Underwater photography presents a very unique set of challenges—from loss of lighting and unwanted colour shifts to backscatter and noise. While capturing an good shot in-camera is essential, the post-processing is where you truly bring your underwater images to life.
This guide is designed to walk you through the editing techniques I personally use to transform my RAW underwater photos into my signature contrasted, high-quality edited artworks.
🥜 In a nutshell, this guide is everything my younger self needed to know (and spent years learning myself) about the underwater photography and post-production editing process!
Why Editing is Essential for Underwater Photography
Are your RAW images green and flat straight from the camera?
Water absorbs and scatters light differently to air, causing images to lose contrast, sharpness, and natural colours—especially reds and yellows. Even with proper camera settings and lighting techniques, RAW images can often appear a yucky blue or green colour with muted tones. Post-processing allows you to correct these issues, bringing back the colours, depth, and clarity that make your underwater shots stand out. Even your ‘worst’ images are salvageable, trust me!
What’s Inside?
📖 Step-by-step Lightroom editing tutorials
🎨 Colour correction and tone adjustments
🖌️ Advanced masking techniques for precision edits
🔍 Noise reduction and sharpening strategies
📷 Before & after real-world editing examples
🎥 Access to a real-time editing process example video from Kendall
Access to an exclusive Instagram group chat where everyone can share their UW photography experiences, advice and ideas, solve common problems and encourage each other’s growth!
What You’ll Learn with Underwater Art
This guide is structured to help you navigate the most important aspects of underwater photo editing, regardless of your experience level. Some of the key highlights include:
Essential Camera Settings & Photography Tips to get you started! Are your images blurry, grainy, or too light / dark? You will learn how to change this and use correct photography settings for your preferred underwater environment!
White Balance & Colour Correction – Learn how to restore natural colours by adjusting white balance and using colour grading techniques in Adobe Lightroom CC.
Exposure & Contrast Adjustments – Master the use of highlights, shadows, and tone curves to create balanced and dynamic images.
AI Noise Reduction – Understand how to remove unwanted grain while preserving essential details, especially in low-light shots.
Clarity & Sharpness Enhancements – Fine-tune textures and details to make your subjects pop without over-processing.
Removing Backscatter & Distractions – Use spot removal and healing tools to clean up unwanted particles and distractions in your image.
Presets & Workflow Optimisation – Discover how to create a streamlined editing process using Lightroom presets for efficiency and consistency.
Who This Guide is For
Whether you're new to underwater photography or looking to refine your post-processing skills, or simply curious to learn how I edit my own images with my signature editing style! This guide will provide you with instructions and real-world examples to help you achieve professional results. My approach to this guide balances technical precision with creative expression, which ensures that your final edits reflect a natural transformation as well as incorporating your unique artistic style.
📍 Designed for photographers of all levels
📍 Perfect for freedivers, scuba divers, and ocean lovers
📍 No complicated jargon—just clear, practical guidance
My Editing Philosophy
As a professional underwater photographer, I believe in enhancing images while keeping them authentic. The goal is not to overly manipulate or artificially saturate colours but to bring out the richness and depth that the human eye perceives underwater. By following the techniques in this guide, you’ll be able to create clean, compelling underwater images that are true to the moment you captured!
Get Instant Access & Start Editing Today
✅ Immediate digital download (you will receive a link to download the file which will expire 24 hours after the first download)
✅ Easy-to-follow techniques for quick results
✅ Lifetime access—edit at your own pace
Why Lightroom CC instead of Lightroom Classic?
This is one of my most frequently asked questions when teaching my work! While I sometimes do work with Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC is ideal for photographers who prefer a mobile, cloud-based, and AI-powered editing solution. Unlike Lightroom Classic, which requires local storage, Lightroom CC syncs edits across all devices, making it perfect for those who travel frequently or edit on the go (like myself). If I don’t have access to my laptop or want to process a quick edit, I can do so seamlessly on my phone!
For those new to underwater photo editing, Lightroom CC offers a more accessible and intuitive experience. It is designed with simplicity in mind, making it easier for beginners to navigate and apply edits without getting overwhelmed by complex menus 🧠
Ready to transform your underwater photography? Grab your copy now!
Your photos aren’t bad, you just need to learn how to edit them!
Welcome to Underwater Art - Your Underwater Photography Journey’s Best Friend!
Underwater photography presents a very unique set of challenges—from loss of lighting and unwanted colour shifts to backscatter and noise. While capturing an good shot in-camera is essential, the post-processing is where you truly bring your underwater images to life.
This guide is designed to walk you through the editing techniques I personally use to transform my RAW underwater photos into my signature contrasted, high-quality edited artworks.
🥜 In a nutshell, this guide is everything my younger self needed to know (and spent years learning myself) about the underwater photography and post-production editing process!
Why Editing is Essential for Underwater Photography
Are your RAW images green and flat straight from the camera?
Water absorbs and scatters light differently to air, causing images to lose contrast, sharpness, and natural colours—especially reds and yellows. Even with proper camera settings and lighting techniques, RAW images can often appear a yucky blue or green colour with muted tones. Post-processing allows you to correct these issues, bringing back the colours, depth, and clarity that make your underwater shots stand out. Even your ‘worst’ images are salvageable, trust me!
What’s Inside?
📖 Step-by-step Lightroom editing tutorials
🎨 Colour correction and tone adjustments
🖌️ Advanced masking techniques for precision edits
🔍 Noise reduction and sharpening strategies
📷 Before & after real-world editing examples
🎥 Access to a real-time editing process example video from Kendall
Access to an exclusive Instagram group chat where everyone can share their UW photography experiences, advice and ideas, solve common problems and encourage each other’s growth!
What You’ll Learn with Underwater Art
This guide is structured to help you navigate the most important aspects of underwater photo editing, regardless of your experience level. Some of the key highlights include:
Essential Camera Settings & Photography Tips to get you started! Are your images blurry, grainy, or too light / dark? You will learn how to change this and use correct photography settings for your preferred underwater environment!
White Balance & Colour Correction – Learn how to restore natural colours by adjusting white balance and using colour grading techniques in Adobe Lightroom CC.
Exposure & Contrast Adjustments – Master the use of highlights, shadows, and tone curves to create balanced and dynamic images.
AI Noise Reduction – Understand how to remove unwanted grain while preserving essential details, especially in low-light shots.
Clarity & Sharpness Enhancements – Fine-tune textures and details to make your subjects pop without over-processing.
Removing Backscatter & Distractions – Use spot removal and healing tools to clean up unwanted particles and distractions in your image.
Presets & Workflow Optimisation – Discover how to create a streamlined editing process using Lightroom presets for efficiency and consistency.
Who This Guide is For
Whether you're new to underwater photography or looking to refine your post-processing skills, or simply curious to learn how I edit my own images with my signature editing style! This guide will provide you with instructions and real-world examples to help you achieve professional results. My approach to this guide balances technical precision with creative expression, which ensures that your final edits reflect a natural transformation as well as incorporating your unique artistic style.
📍 Designed for photographers of all levels
📍 Perfect for freedivers, scuba divers, and ocean lovers
📍 No complicated jargon—just clear, practical guidance
My Editing Philosophy
As a professional underwater photographer, I believe in enhancing images while keeping them authentic. The goal is not to overly manipulate or artificially saturate colours but to bring out the richness and depth that the human eye perceives underwater. By following the techniques in this guide, you’ll be able to create clean, compelling underwater images that are true to the moment you captured!
Get Instant Access & Start Editing Today
✅ Immediate digital download (you will receive a link to download the file which will expire 24 hours after the first download)
✅ Easy-to-follow techniques for quick results
✅ Lifetime access—edit at your own pace
Why Lightroom CC instead of Lightroom Classic?
This is one of my most frequently asked questions when teaching my work! While I sometimes do work with Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC is ideal for photographers who prefer a mobile, cloud-based, and AI-powered editing solution. Unlike Lightroom Classic, which requires local storage, Lightroom CC syncs edits across all devices, making it perfect for those who travel frequently or edit on the go (like myself). If I don’t have access to my laptop or want to process a quick edit, I can do so seamlessly on my phone!
For those new to underwater photo editing, Lightroom CC offers a more accessible and intuitive experience. It is designed with simplicity in mind, making it easier for beginners to navigate and apply edits without getting overwhelmed by complex menus 🧠