![]() ![]() Retouching portraits in Lightroom with Develop Presets Even when my aim is to make the model look beautiful, rather than capture character, I prefer a light-touch, natural style of post-processing. I tend to go for a very natural look in my portraits, and the tools in Lightroom suit this style of working very well. The type of portrait you are trying to create influences the amount of post-processing you want to do. Take it too far and the model’s skin looks more like plastic (with no texture), go to an extreme and you end up with the highly stylized and over-processed look common in movie posters. ![]() This is the type of portrait where the photographer may be tempted to go into Photoshop (or a plugin) to remove wrinkles and smooth skin. Photographers who photograph models with the intention of making the kinds of images you might see in a fashion or editorial magazine are also doing this. ![]() Photographers who make portraits of members of the public for a living, and wedding photographers, naturally want to make their subjects look beautiful. The first is the type where you try to make somebody look as good as possible. Then there’s the question of just how much retouching is appropriate.īroadly speaking there are two types of portrait. Often this is a heavy-handed, commercial style that is of little relevance to the hobbyist photographer. Photoshop is for high-end retouching, of the sort you may see in a magazine, an advertising campaign or a movie poster. You save hard drive space (as you don’t need to convert your Raw files to 16 bit TIFFs to edit them in Photoshop), your workflow is simpler, you can copy and paste Develop Settings where required (saving time), you can create Develop Presets (also saving time) and even apply them to your portraits when you import your photos into Lightroom (saving even more time). There are many advantages of using Lightroom. The Sleeklens presets reviewed in this tutorial will help you with that. But I take a different approach and believe that most photographers can do all the portrait retouching they need to in Lightroom. Some photographers consider Photoshop an essential tool for retouching portraits. ![]()
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