6 most important items in the Develop module

Thanks for sharing this, Simone. It prompted me to plug in my time machine!

Simone, thanks for this information! It made me realize I had not enabled Lens Corrections (Most Important Thing No. 3).

Thank you Simone for pointing out this site - There seems to be more than this set of 6 Lightroom tips available.

Pedantically,I would say that #2. Profile may be heavy handed, depending on how one uses LR. One other LR tip from some other place yonks ago said that after all the good LR editing you do and you are about satisfied with the image go to the bottom of the develop tools to Camera Calibration to make just one last tweak. Slide the lowest Blue Primary, Saturation toward the right always holding the mouse button down. Wait to see the effect. Try sliding left or right. This can make the image POP, as they say. It can. That is not a guarantee but I often/usually like the effect.

And, #4. The Basic Panel has been touted in recent versions of LR as usable in a top-down sequence - start at/near the top and alter lower sliders until you reach the bottom. A mentor who I now follow said to start with Blacks - then Whites - then the others as you see fit. BUT! starting with both Blacks and Whites hold down the Alt button (on a PC) and slide until some pixels are shown, then immediately (keep the Alt held down) slide back until just about no pixels show. Do this first before the rest of the Basic editing in order to set the white and the black levels.

As with all of photography, one persons favourite method is another's unfavourite.