- [Instructor] Whether you're
a professional portrait photographer
or you just love to take pictures
of your family and friends,
of course, you want those pictures to look great.
There are things that you can do in Lightroom Classic
to make your photos of people look better,
but when you're deep into retouching portraits,
then you want to take your photos from Lightroom Classic
over to Photoshop.
Let's just take a look at some of the things
that you might do in Lightroom Classic
before switching to Photoshop.
For one thing,
there is people view,
which is a really useful built-in organizer
for just your people photos.
It will help you to tag them,
as well as to find the photos that you're looking for.
And if you take a photo to the develop module,
there, you have the spot healing brush tool,
which you can use to quickly clean up small blemishes
and you have the adjustment brush tool
where you can paint a variety of combinations of effects.
For example, if you wanted to reduce some of the red
in the subject's eyes,
you might paint with decreased saturation.
And in the basic panel,
you have the very useful texture slider,
which does a great job of smoothing skin.
So look as I drag this to the left,
how smooth the model's skin gets.
That's a little too much for my taste,
so I'm going to put that back to about there.
But as I said when you're really serious about retouching,
you want to jump over to Photoshop.
So let's go to photo, edit in, edit in Adobe Photoshop.
And here, we'll choose to edit a copy
with Lightroom adjustments
so that we can see our edits from Lightroom
when this photo opens in Photoshop.
In Photoshop, I'm going to zoom in,
and the first thing that I want to do here
that I wouldn't be able to do very easily
in Lightroom Classic
is to try to remove some of the hot spots
on the subject's skin from the lights shining on her face.
One way to do that is with the patch tool.
I'll go over to the tool bar
and I'll click on the spot healing brush tool
and select the path tool from the fly out menu.
Then I'm going to go over to the layers panel,
and I'm going to duplicate the background layer
by right clicking and choosing duplicate layer
and then clicking okay.
And that's because I want to protect the underlying photo
from this change,
and the patch tool is one of the few tools
that doesn't offer a sample all layers option,
so we've duplicated that layer
and with the background copy layer selected,
I'm going to move into the image
and I'm just going to drag a quick, rough selection
around the hot spot that I want to hide.
And then I'll click inside of that selection
and I'll drag to the right
to identify some clean pixels
that Photoshop will use
to patch over that hot spot area
when I release my mouse.
If I were to zoom in even further,
I think you'd see that that patch isn't exactly blended in
with the surrounding skin yet.
So here's a quick way to get that to happen.
First of all, don't do anything else.
Don't deselect, don't click another tool.
Instead, go right up to the edit menu
where there is a temporary command
that's only available right after you use the patch tool
and that is fade patch selection.
So I'll click on that and then in the fade dialog box
that comes up,
I'm going to drag the fade slider over to the left
until I like the way that that patch is blending in
with the surrounding skin.
And then I'll click okay.
And then I'll deselect, Command + D on the Mac,
Control + D on Windows,
and that's a pretty good patch.
I'll show you a before and after view
by turning off the background copy layer with the patch.
That's how it looked before
and here's how it looks after.
There are some other hot spots on this model's face
like on the nose that you can experiment with
when you have time.
And there's lots more that we could do in Photoshop.
It's just one more example.
I'm going to make a brand new layer for retouching.
I'll call that retouching,
and with that layer selected,
I'm going to go over to the tool bar
and get the healing brush tool.
And I'm going to go up to the options bar for this tool
and tell Photoshop to sample current and below.
And what that means is that Photoshop will look
at the layers below this retouching layer
to find clean pixels.
It will copy those
and then it will lay them down
on the selected retouching layer,
and this will give me editing flexibility
to retouch on a separate layer from the photo.
Then I'm going to come into the image,
I'll press the right bracket key on my keyboard a few times.
That's near the p key,
and then I'm going to hold down the option key on the Mac.
That's the alt key on Windows,
and click on some clean pixels.
And then I'm going to click and drag
over these shadows under this subject's eye.
I'll do the same thing on the other side.
And if you think that's too strong,
you can go over to the layers panel
and reduce the opacity of the retouching layer
for a more natural effect,
but that's a quick thing that you can do in Photoshop
that almost always makes a portrait look better.
Let me show you a before and an after view.
Obviously, there's a lot more that you could do here.
For example,
you could use the healing brush tool
or maybe the clone stamp tool to trim the eyebrows.
You could deepen the color of the lips.
You could even use the liquefy filter
to modify the hairdo,
but for now, that's all we're going to do in Photoshop.
Let's take this back to Lightroom
by going to file and save
and then switching back to Lightroom,
and now you can see in the film strip,
there are two versions of this image.
The one we're looking at is the TIFF
that we just saved back from Photoshop
and it contains the changes that we made
in both Lightroom and then in Photoshop.
And right next to it is the version
that we started with, the JPEG,
with just the few changes that we made here
in Lightroom Classic.
So we'll go back to the fully edited one
and that's just a taste
of the many ways that you can enhance a portrait
by using Photoshop and Lightroom Classic together.