I've been shooting and editing for a year now. I've taken my time figuring out my style and workflow rather than watch a ton of tutorials. With that being said, I'm thankful for this video. This is a side of things I've thought about and have attempted in my own way but what you've showed me not only speeds up my process but also makes my work look better. Thank you!
Presets. Makes it difficult to follow what you're doing because you're changing so much in one key stroke that the people wanting to learn won't know what's happening.
I'm just starting to work with Lightroom and the most difficult thing for me was to make the most natural skin tone and this video helped me the most, and after it I do it with understanding. Thank you very much, great!🤗
The preset options for skin tones are key and probably the most difficult to get. I wish that process was explained a little more. But there are still good things here. Thank you.
Thank you for this tips, being doing photography for about 2 years and i’ve watched many tutorials and this is the first time i apply this tips and is a total game changer. The way you delivered your message and attention to details behind making this video is what helped me 🙏🏽
Hope we found it useful?? HA! That was SO great. I have only been using the "new" LR for a few months after having LR5 for 15 yrs. Oh Lord! So much easier now and not using PS nearly as much, if at all on my portraits. Bless you TK. PEACE!!!
Looking for good Lightroom tutorials but you are the first one that explains completely understandable and also gives great content like very important things that you really need. Thumb up and subscribed thanks so much! Looking forward to more stuff like that also enjoying your Aussie accent :))
Thank you for the tips. It was very interesting and helpful... unfortunately my version of Lightroom does not have all the features you are using. Could you please tell me the exact name of your Lightroom? Thank you!
I felt such "at home" watching your clip - nearly the same way I'm developing my portrait work since a long time (except the bonus tip - I never added grain before). And for the background I often invert a copy of the mask of my subject and darken it a little bit instead of using a inverted radial filter behind - but nice tip, it's not that intense for caluculating or copying the masks to the next shot. And one little aditional thing I would have done to your last image: Desaturating these two orange grips of that little clamp right above your model - as I have seen them they are now always catching my eyes... And over all: Thanks for sharing your work!
I'm a bit confused, as using lightroom is essentially camera raw in photoshop (only camera raw has more available tools) and if you are already in photos (which also has more control and tools), you are actually saving time by using photoshop with the included camera raw editor. I rarely open lightroom for this exact reason.
This video is amazing mate. For me who is only used to landscape editing this video was very useful for me and explained well. Can I ask 1 thing, the presets you are choosing on the left are they already in lightroom or did you get these from somewhere? I have never used preset I always done my own edit from scratch
GREAT PORTRAIT EDITING TIPS! I use a 24-70mm zoom and a 55mm manual macro lens on a Nikon D750 and so far have decent success with my portraits, and this video is certainly helpful when I edit in Lightroom! Thanks... Forgot to ask: Are you shooting mostly in RAW or JPEG format? HG
2ND COMMENT: I love what you're doing to edit your portraits! QUICK QUESTION: Do you ever hit the AUTO TONE BUTTON? I find myself using it to START the editing process!
Thanks so much James!! 🙏 I sure do, link is in the description. The portrait pack used in this vid is called "Moments Preset Pack". Thanks for the support dude!
Fantastic! Thank for this! Key is learning the software.....they say it takes 10,000hrs working on it to master it, but it also helps to watch TKNORTHs videos and subscribe to his channel lol!
Great video and thank you for explaining it well. I have question, if I have 50 portrait pictures and wanted to edit them. Do I have edit each portrait separately (like softening the skin, removing marks from face etc) or do I have to copy the setting and paste it for other portraits? Thank you in advance!
All the photos taken in the same light level and color temperature can be done as a batch. Any elements that are different materially, needs to be processed as a group after editing the first of that group. Assuming the most of the photos are taken with the same light sources, for example doing corporate head shots where 50 people are shot individually using the same lighting, edit the first one of that group using background and subject select functions, such as skin select with smoothing for females in one batch and males in another. Make the adjustments for the first. until you like the result. After that one is edited to your likely, Select all the photos that are male(or female) from the bottom panel and right button on the mouse, choose "Copy Settings from the Previous" an all the changes made with be repeated, so it LR will select create a face mask for each sequentially regardless of how different the faces were, or any of the masking changes you made to the first image. If you modified eyes, hair, brightness, smoothing etc, the same operations will be carried out on all the rest, a it sequentially selects the face shape or eye or whatever you did to the first. I had a group of actors, 66 of them, mostly female, to shoot upper torso and head shots for a drama theater when LR added subject select so tried it, and it worked amazingly well. That all day editing job was done in 20 minutes. Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop in the Photography Bundle is the best, most useful and modest investment in photography. In recent year their major updates and feature additions have increased in effectiveness and quality to the point that anyone who needs to edit it wasting time if they do not subscribe to the monthly subscription. It is the best deal in the industry. Some of their other applications such as DreamWeaver for web site development has not been updated for over 10 years and costs twice as much per month Note that if color temperature changes between shots, you will have to manually adjust White Balance individually if you are using custom WB. Auto mode is often good enough. You can also use batch processing in Adobe Camera Raw but they are all adjusted in real time together, so you can retain all the raw data at full image data. If you are doing similar work often, save your changes as a preset and to even lower the workload. Almost all my commercial work and hobby shooting subjects are people, mostly females so a few presets and it is easier than ever to become consistent and produce quality finished images.
Lightroom classic! It’s had a few updates since this video. However all the sliders and adjustments are the same in both versions of Lightroom, the layout is just different
Can any of you RU-vidrs show us how to do an edit without using one of your “for sale” presets. Im sure me and others are really trying to figure out how to do this without starting with a preset loaded in that boosts your picture more than what we’re working with in our program. All of you guys do this and it’s really annoying looking up a video that says “tips to edit better in Lightroom” and all we get is some guy telling us to add one of his presets to our photo and work from there…
I can only speak for myself but I always create videos to try to add as much value to people as I can. All of which is totally free for people to watch might I add - despite the effort they take to create. This video was never designed to show an edit from start to finish, nor does the title suggest that. I have a number of videos that do show an edit from start to finish and that will be reflected in the title. None of these tips require you to use presets at all, it's a total side note on all of them. I'm sorry this is annoying but I will continue to mention my products in my videos as these sales support what I do and allow me to keep making videos like this. They also had a lot of value to people who use them. But there is never an obligation to check them out and it's a tiny portion of a video where I might mention or show them.
@@TKNORTH I've never used LR, only PS for the past 25 years. I see it's a lot more capable now, so maybe I need to learn LR. I just always preferred to open files from a folder, edit in PS, and keep it there without having a library or catalog like LR uses.
I've been asked to edit a friends .jpeg exterior photo for her forthcoming web page. I have the face right however there are a couple of large poles in the background, one seemingly touching her face though, which I have not been able to remove with the band aid tool. Do you have anything in your videos that would help me out please?
Hi Michael! It sounds like you might need to jump over to photoshop. Do you have access to it? Lightroom is great for more simple corrections, but anything a bit more complicated will often require photoshop. The only video of mine that might help is called "Advanced Editing Techniques in Lightroom | My Complete Workflow". Mostly in Lightroom but if you skip ahead to near the end I finish the edit off in photoshop removing a few objects. Not sure if this will be useful as it's still a relatively simple task, but hopefully! Good luck :)
@@michaelmcphee2930 good stuff man! Can definitely be a bit overwhelming at first but there’s a few tools in there that are quite easy to use that will definitely be useful for you! Have a search on how to use the clone stamp tool and / or spot healing brush tool if you need any more guidance!
Hi there, are you on Lightroom Classic or Lightroom? You'll find the layout in Lightroom compared to Classic is quite different but same controls largely
