Graphics Programs Reference
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Now that you've whittled things down to the images you're going to show the client,
it's decision time: are you going to let your client look at the proofs “as is,” or do you
want to tweak 'em a bit first in Lightroom's Develop module? If you're leaving them
“as is,” jump over to page 410. But, if you want to take a couple of minutes and tweak
the white balance, exposure, and other simple adjustments, then stick with me here.
By the way, these are just some quick tweaks—we don't want to invest a bunch of
editing time now, because the client is probably only looking for a couple final images.
Editing Your Selects
Step One:
These shots need a white balance adjust-
ment, so go to the Develop module's Basic
panel. We fixed another photo from this
shoot on page 124 in Chapter Four, so you
can go there for more details, but I shot our
subject on a gray background that looks
kind of brownish here (and her skin tones
look kind of yellowish). Since they all
have a similar icky white balance, press
Command-A (PC: Ctrl-A)
to select all the
images (as you see here). Get the White
Balance Selector tool
(W)
and click it on
the background in one of those photos, and
now they've all got the right white balance.
Actually, for this beauty look, I like the white
balance a tiny bit colder, so I dragged the
Temp slider to the lef t a tiny bit (a s shown
here). By the way, if you have all the photos
selected, and you set the white balance for
one, and the others don't change, you don't
have the Auto Sync button turned on (see
page 157 on Auto Sync).
Step Two:
The exposure's okay for most of these
photos (though I had to increase the Expo-
sure a bit for one), but I normally would
brighten the whites of the eyes before
I send them (see page 180 in Chapter 5).
Here's another way to brighten the eyes:
grab the Adjustment Brush
(K)
, and paint
a little more Exposure over just the whites
of the eyes (as shown here). Depending on
the photo, you might then click the New
button, choose
Contrast
from the Effect
menu, increase the Contrast amount, and
paint over the iris and pupil (in this case,
I'm okay with it for a proof). Now do the
same whitening on the other eight images.
