How to Edit Portraits in Lightroom Only (Start to Finish)

Sean Tucker Guide 7 months ago

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:04 Set your Crop
1:45 Recover sky detail
2:29 Exposure and Contrast
3:19 Tone Curve
4:13 White Balance
5:15 Colour Mixer
7:14 Colour Grading
8:41 MPB
10:15 Dodge and Burn
20:57 Sharpen Subject
22:45 Finalise
23:32 Final Thoughts
24:19 PARABLE magazine
24:50 Credits

Music licensed with Epidemic Sound:
'Crossing the Rubicon' by Jakob Ahlbom

In this video: after making portraits with three close friends back in South Africa in my previous video, I gave myself the challenge of editing them using only Adobe Lightroom, including all the colour grading and light shaping I would usually do in Photoshop. These are the techniques I used.

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