When you’re taking portraits of a person, they will often ask you to send them a photo. This can make it easier to judge the right Temp and Tint settings. The best way is to click on a neutral point with the White Balance eyedropper, but if there’s no obvious neutral area, try temporarily increasing Saturation and Vibrance to +100. It’s important to get white balance spot on when dealing with skin tones. You can hit O to toggle between overlays, or go to Tool> Crop Guide Overlay. Don’t be afraid to crop into foreheads in your close-ups to put the eyes on one of the third lines in the frame. The Crop tool is invaluable for portraits as it can often be tricky to get the crop right in-camera, especially when the subject is moving. You can paint to remove the hair, or hold Shift and click at points along the hair to heal in a straight line. Major hair retouching should be done in Photoshop, but for the odd stray hair, Lightroom’s Spot Removal tool works just fine. Stray hairs around the edge of a face can be very distracting. This sharper detail will draw the viewer to the eyes. A slight boost in the Clarity or Dehaze sliders can also work well here. To do so, grab the Adjustment Brush and load it with positive sharpening in the tool options to the right of the interface, then paint roughly over the lashes to sharpen them. Sharpening for lashesĮyelashes will often benefit from selective sharpening. To take it further, try darkening the edges of the iris slightly with another adjustment.Įyes are a focal point, so sharpen the lashes for added impact 14. Grab the Adjustment Brush and dial in positive Exposure then paint precisely over the whites. The whites of the eyes will often benefit from a subtle lift, although be careful, because this is an edit that’s easy to overdo. Adjust the GREEN source point, if necessary. Use the square bracket keys (] and [) to resize the brush tip until it’s slightly larger than the point you want to fix, then dab or paint over it to remove. Ensure the tool is set to Heal in the tool options to the right. The Spot Removal tool is good for tidying spots and blemishes over skin. So hold Alt while dragging the Masking slider, and you’ll see the lower frequency details begin to appear in black as you drag, which prevents them from being sharpened. We don’t really want to sharpen the skin or blurred backdrops, as this’ll amplify noise. Simply set ‘Range Mask: Color’ then sample the teeth.įound alongside the sharpening settings in the Detail Panel, the Masking slider is a great aid when sharpening portraits. Thanks to the new range masking feature, we don’t even need to paint precisely. Grab the tool, click the Effect dropdown and choose ‘Teeth Whiten’, then paint over the teeth. The Adjustment Brush has several inbuilt presets, such as one that whitens teeth. This’ll make the skin slightly brighter, which results in a fresher feel that works well for beauty shots. Simply go to the Luminance tab in the HSL Panel, grab the target icon for on-image control, then drag upwards over the skin slightly.
Here’s a quick fix that can work wonders over skin. Be careful not to go over sharp details like the eyes or lips. Grab the Adjustment Brush, hit the minus icon next to Clarity, then paint over the skin. It’s not as refined as more advanced skin-smoothing techniques, but it’s fine for a quick fix. Negative Clarity can result in a subtle yet effective skin-smoothing effect. Use Shift with the bracket keys to alter the feather (hardness) of the brush.ĭial in negative Clarity with the Adjustment brush to smooth skin 7. The square bracket keys resize your brush tip. To speed things up, hit O to toggle the mask overlay on or off to check your painting, and hold Alt to subtract from the mask. The Adjustment Brush settings are on the right when the tool is active. If you have several similar photos you can apply local adjustments across the entire set by syncing the images. This is especially useful for portraits, as we can copy an adjustment from one eye to the other.
Paint precisely over the iris with a small brush (exclude the pupil) and then fi ne-tune the tonal sliders.Ī keyboard shortcut makes it easy to copy local adjustments – simply Alt + drag the pin. Grab the tool then dial in positive Exposure, Clarity and Saturation. The Adjustment Brush is a great tool for boosting irises, as we can make several adjustments at once. Use the Adjustment Brush to target smaller areas 4.
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