

- #LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING MOVIE#
- #LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING SKIN#
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#LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING MOVIE#
It’s common in movie posters, which make the actors almost unrecognizable, and expensive advertisements. One of the biggest dangers associated with using Photoshop or plugins is that you can go too far and over-retouch your portraits. Lightroom helps you create a natural look The workflow is also much smoother when you keep everything within Lightroom. Retouching Raw files in Lightroom is much more space efficient. 16-bit TIFF files are very large and rapidly fill your hard drives. For maximum quality, you should use 16-bit TIFF – a file that is much bigger than Raw. The main reasons are hard drive space and workflow.Įvery time you export a photo, Lightroom has to convert it from Raw to a file format the program understands. I always recommend that you do as much work in Lightroom as possible, and only export photos to Photoshop or a plugin when absolutely necessary. Combined with the healing brush tool, which is perfect for eliminating blemishes, you can retouch nearly any portrait.
#LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING FULL#
You can reduce the opacity of the brush after you have applied the effect, giving you full control over the strength.
#LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING SKIN#
The Soften Skin preset helps you smooth skin while retaining texture when used with the Adjustment Brush tool. The danger of these plugins, if overused, is that they remove skin texture and make it look over-processed and plastic.īut what you might not know is that the Adjustment Brush in Lightroom is an excellent tool for portrait retouching. The main selling point of portrait plugins is that you can use them to make anybody’s skin look beautiful. You don’t need to leave Lightroom to smooth skin Leave local adjustments like retouching until last as those need to be applied to portraits individually.

All you have to do is develop the first image, then copy and paste the settings to the rest. Sets of similar portraits that share the same lighting and background are the easiest to bulk process. It’s possible to buy or put together an entire preset system – a set of presets that is designed to make developing portraits much faster and simpler than going through the right-hand panels in the Develop module individually.

There are presets that emulate film (such as those from VSCO and Mastin Labs), presets for black and white photography and ones that create just about every type of look you can imagine. Whether you buy presets made by other photographers, download freebies from the internet, or make your own, presets can open up new worlds. You can use Lightroom Presets to create different looks There are compelling reasons to do all of your portrait retouching within Lightroom. There is nothing wrong with this and these programs can do an excellent job, especially if you retouch portraits at a high level.īut you may be surprised at just what an excellent job Lightroom also does at developing portraits.
#LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING PRO#
There are some photographers who use Photoshop or plugins such as Portrait Pro to do portrait retouching.
