Food Photography: Creative Editing Techniques
A course by Lenka SelingerPhotographer and Food Stylist
A course by Lenka Selinger, Photographer and Food Stylist
Experiment with shapes, colors, and textures using digital tools to create mouthwatering images in your own artistic style
Food is a cultural and multisensory experience with the power to awaken memories and generate all kinds of positive emotions. Photographer and culinary artist Lenka Selinger's goal is to capture the essence of that universe. In this online course, she shares her editing secrets to create gastronomic scenes with a mouthwatering aesthetic.
Learn creative retouching techniques to maximize the effect of your food photos and master digital editing to achieve exquisite shapes, colors, and textures. These new tools allow you to go beyond the established presets, find a more personal vision, and carve out your own style.
What will you learn in this online course?
16 lessons & 14 downloads
Food Photography
8 minutes, 29 seconds
Why Edit Photos?
1 minute, 37 seconds
Mood Board
5 minutes, 25 seconds
Catalog Organization
11 minutes, 9 seconds
General Editing
14 minutes, 31 seconds
Selective Editing
14 minutes, 15 seconds
What's included in this course?
Meet Lenka Selinger, photographer, food stylist, and your teacher for the course. She takes you through her background in culinary photography, as well as her main influences and inspirations.
Begin with an introduction to food photography, its technical aspects, and what editing can bring to your images. Develop a mood board and explore the basic features of Lightroom to organize your photos.
Next, dive into editing with selective and creative retouching using masks, vignettes, color wheels, and curves. Find out how to configure your own presets and learn how to use the free Lightroom app to make editing easier.
Once you have a solid understanding of these concepts, it's time to retouch your images in Photoshop to remove any imperfections, correct specific details, and merge scenes. Lenka also shows you how to create your own food-themed animations using the stop-motion technique.
Finally, export your project and discover the secrets to visual storytelling with your own images. Wrap things up by doing some digital retouching, using exquisite shapes, colors, and textures.
Recommended software & tools for this course
What is this course's project?
Edit and retouch an action-oriented tabletop image, a dark scene, and a recipe photo.
Who is this online course for?
This course is for food photography lovers.
Requirements and materials
To take this course, you need to have a basic working knowledge of Lightroom and Photoshop.
The materials you'll need are:
- Lightroom
- Lightroom mobile
- Photoshop
- RAW images
Reviews
- 11 months ago
He aprendido muchísimo en este curso. Felicidades
- 2 years ago
Great course. Highly recommend!
- 3 years ago
This is a beautifully constructed course that shows you some really useful techniques in both Lightroom and Photoshop to enhance your food photography. The videos are well put together and Lenka explains her processes simply and comprehensively.
A very good way to make some big leaps in your food photography at a very good price. I highly recommend.
- 3 years ago
Ottima esperienza!
- 3 years ago
Un curso muy completo y muy bien explicado por Lenka. Aprendi muchisimo!
Years later, what had started out as a hobby became her profession, leading to collaborations with brands such as El Charro, Earth & Mama, Biochef, Magic Linen, and many more. She has also worked different jobs in advertising, creating images for magazines, restaurants, and cookbooks, and has even been recognized as the best food photographer in the world.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- Presentation
- Influences
- U2
Discovering Food Photography
- Food Photography
- Why Edit Photos?
- Mood Board
- Catalog Organization
- U3
Working in Lightroom
- General Editing
- Selective Editing
- Creative Editing
- Creating Your Own Preset
- Lightroom for Smartphones
- U4
Working in Photoshop
- Retouch Tools
- Creating a Composition
- Stop Motion Animation
- U5
Final Details
- Image Export
- Visual Storytelling
- FP
Final project
- Food Photography: Creative Editing Techniques
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FAQs
You'll learn how to develop your own unique style in food photography, master composition, color, and natural light, create moodboards, optimize your Lightroom workflow, edit photos to highlight food, and design custom presets for professional results.
This course is geared toward intermediate users—perfect if you already have basic photography skills and want to deepen your knowledge of composition, advanced editing, and developing your own style in food photography.
You'll need a digital camera (DSLR, mirrorless, or a high-end smartphone), access to Adobe Lightroom (desktop or mobile), and optionally Photoshop for advanced editing and animations.
The Nordic style is all about minimalism, clean lines, natural messiness, and soft color palettes. You'll learn how to apply this to your food photos to create fresh, visually appealing images.
Presets are pre-made settings you apply to photos for consistent, quick editing. The course teaches you how to create and customize your own presets to match your visual identity.
The course covers the rule of thirds, minimalist composition, intentional layering, vignettes, texture handling, and color theory to make your food stand out with striking, harmonious images.
You'll learn how to identify and use natural light throughout the seasons to adjust color temperature, create different moods, and highlight the freshness or warmth of your food.