I cover some of the most popular Lightroom retouches right here (including reducing wrinkles and slimming), but there’s only so much you can do in Lightroom. There are a lot of simple retouches we can do in Lightroom’s Develop module, but they are usually about making something lighter or darker (like darkening your subject’s eyebrows by painting over them with the Adjustment Brush with just the Exposure lowered) or removing something simple.
LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING PROFESSIONAL
Now, Adobe has done a number of studies, using select focus groups across a wide range of demographics, and these studies have revealed that high-end professional retouchers using Photoshop can increase not only their productivity, but the realism of their retouching by putting on noise-canceling headphones and listening to a long bass drum track followed by layered weird synthesizer sounds, and then mentally picturing themselves at Denny’s. Anyway, just to circle back around for a moment, you can actually do some minor retouching right within Lightroom itself, and I cover that here at the start of this chapter, but for more serious stuff, you’ve got to jump over to Photoshop because it was born for this stuff. We call that “crack-a-lackin’,” but that’s just because we’re so “street.” Ball ‘til ya fall, homies!). If that sounds like a dig, it’s not because there are a lot of remixes of Re-touch’s tunes by everybody from Tom Novy to Goldie-Lox to Overnoise, which alone is pretty impressive (I have no idea who those people are, but it’s only because I am very old and these tunes are probably played well after the Early Bird Special ends at Denny’s, so I would’ve missed them, but I’m sure if they played these def tracks at Denny’s around my dinner time, there would be plenty of dentures just a-clackin’ away. I mean, really, really like bass drum for long extended periods of time, and you like it followed by layering weird synthesizer sounds. Okay, I’m just kidding, his music is actually pretty good-especially if you like bass drum. Plus, once I previewed a few of his tracks, I realized there was no way he was paying his mortgage with income from his music career, so maybe this mention will give him some kind of boost. So, I decided to go with that one, since it wasn’t so obvious. Stay warm, stay safe, and be kind to everybody, especially if their team just won the SuperBowl.I had it made when it came to naming this chapter because when I typed the word “retouch” into the iTunes Store’s Search Store field, I not only found songs named “Retouch,” but it brought up an artist named “Re-touch,” as well. That’s all there is to it (told ya it was easy).Ībove: Here’s a before and after, and you can see it’s clearly still there but with its impact and effect on the portrait much more limited, and more natural looking. By dragging it to 50%, you’ll still see the mole, but only at 50% of its original intensity so you reduce its impact on the portrait. This is kind of “Undo on a slider” so dragging it to the left, reducing the Opacity, brings back part of the mole you just removed.
STEP TWO: Now that the blemish is completely gone, head over to the Spot Edit panel (near the top of the right side panels), and lower the Opacity to 50%. Admittedly, Lightroom’s tool is kind of a role-of-the-dice as to how it works because sometimes the places it chooses to sample from boggle the mind, but in this case, it worked, so don’t kiss a gift horse (and all that stuff).
LIGHTROOM PORTRAIT RETOUCHING SKIN
The tool will find a nearby area of clean skin to sample from, and with any luck at all the mole (in this case) is completely and seamlessly removed. Make your brush a little larger than the mole or scar or whatever, you want to remove and just click once. STEP ONE: In Lightroom get the Spot Removal tool (in the LR cloud, it’s called the Healing Brush). There’s lots of reasons not to remove it, but…how about instead just reducing the effect of the facial feature so it doesn’t stand out? That way it looks more like it did when you were standing right in front of the person. This is tricky because in still photos, facial blemishes and moles and such don’t just stand out, they’re exaggerated, but if you remove them, then not only are you removing something that is part of their facial character, you run the risk of people who know the subject realizing that the image been retouched (and if they removed that mole, what else did they do?). “ When I’m retouching a portrait, and the subject has a very prominent mole or scar, should I remove it?” This is a tricky retouching question I get asked a lot (the question is tricky, not the technique itself, which is simple), and the question is: In this case, our subject has a trademark mole just to the right of her chin.
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