So with all the recent updates, I'm doing stuff in Lightroom,
that a short while ago
would only have been possible in Photoshop.
Working on skin,
changing colors and even adding lighting effects.
Lightroom just keeps getting better and better.
So to show you what I mean about using Lightroom
more and more,
I'm going to go through
three images that before I had to use Photoshop
to get the results I wanted, but now I can do exactly the same
with fewer steps in Lightroom.
In one of my videos, I showed how to deal with the reddening
in skin and I showed it using this portrait.
And here's the technique I showed
using Photoshop.
First of all, I'll choose a hue
and saturation adjustment layer.
From the Masters menu I'll choose Reds.
Now, the reds that will be
affected are the ones positioned between these markers.
But if I increase the saturation, you can see that
they're not the exact reds I want to adjust.
So I bunch these markers all together
and then choose the plus eyedropper and drag over
the red areas of skin that I want to adjust.
I’ll then increase
the saturation to visually see what I'll be adjusting
and then reposition the markers by clicking
and dragging in the middle to fine tune their position.
When the saturation is only on the correct area of reds
I use the hue slider to add in some cyan
which reduces the red.
So that no other areas were affected
I would then invert the mask and then use a white brush
to reveal the adjustment only on the red areas of skin
so that the reddening is no longer visible.
So this is before and this is after.
Before and after.
But this is how I can now do it in Lightroom.
I'll just go to the masking and choose color range.
I'll then click on an area of red skin
and use the refine slider to focus in on the red areas
which we can see covered with the overlay.
To see the overlay better, I can change the color of it
by clicking here and then just choosing another color.
Then I'll just use the hue slider
to add in the cyan and it's done.
If I do need to bring back
color to the lips, then I just click subtract.
Use a brush and quickly brush over them.
So this is before, and this is after, before and after.
Now, color range in Lightroom is so incredibly
useful, even for simple tasks like changing colors.
I mean,
it doesn't get any easier than
if I wanted to change the color of one of these deck chairs.
I'll go to masking then color range,
click on the color of the deck chair.
Use the refine slider to make sure all the area is selected.
And then just use the hue slider to change the color.
Done.
Now, in this group portrait that I took the skin
on the three ladies at the front
looks a little bit too bright and distracting.
So with the recent update to the masking section
in Lightroom, this is how it can be fixed.
I'll just go to the masking
and then Lightroom automatically starts to analyze
the photograph to identify individual people or subjects.
It does this really quickly
and then you can see them all here
with their individual headshots,
and you can run your cursor over the headshots
and see the person that it relates to.
So using this to work on the skin of the three women,
I'll choose this woman here, first of all.
Then I can click to add more people.
So I'll select this woman
and then this woman.
Now I only want to adjust their body skin
so I make sure that that's the only option that's ticked,
and then because I want to adjust each individually,
I can put a tick in the checkbox here to create three separate
masks, one for each of the women.
Then in the masks, as I put my cursor over each,
you can see which mask is for which woman.
Starting at the top, this mask has included this man's hand.
So I'll click on, subtract, choose a brush,
and then just brush over
his hand to remove it from the selection.
Then I'll just use the exposure slider
to adjust the brightness of the woman's skin.
I'll also rename this mask by clicking on the three dots,
the ellipsis and choosing rename and call this one ...
Right.
I'll then go to the next mask, which you can see
for the woman in the center.
I'll rename it center
and then again adjust the exposure.
Finally, I'll go to the remaining mask,
rename it to left,
and then adjust the exposure.
And we're done.
Here's before and after.
Before and after.
Finally, here's this caricature I did of my friend Mehmet.
If we look at the layers that went into this in Photoshop,
you can see that I photographed him against a gray background
and I've enlarged his head and all other sorts of stuff.
But to add the color to the background and also add
the spotlight behind him,
this is what I had to do in Photoshop.
I had to, first of all, make a selection of Mehmet
and then use a layer mask to cut it out.
Then I used a hue and saturation adjustment layer
to add the color to the background.
Then to add the spotlight.
I'll use the elliptical marquee;
drag out an ellipse and then add a levels adjustment.
Brighten
it up, and then add some feathering.
But here's how I can do it in Lightroom.
I'll go to the masks and click on Subject.
Then I
invert it so that the background is now selected.
I can then use the temperature and tint sliders
along with the hue to add a color to the background.
For the spotlight
I add another mask and use the radial gradient.
Making sure that the feather is quite high
I then drag outwards and increase the exposure.
Then to put it behind Mehmet
I simply click on subtract and then subject
and it's done.
I can then easily adjust the brightness
using the exposure slider and even move the spotlight
and resize it by clicking and dragging.
So here's before and after.
Before and after.
So this is just three examples of things that I would only ever
have done in Photoshop that I can now do in Lightroom,
which is really cutting down on my editing time.
Lightroom is no longer the place to just import
and organize your images.
More and more updates and big updates are making this
a really powerful piece of editing software that before
long will be a one stop shop for a lot of people.
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