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Workflow Step Six:
Making the Final
Tweak s & Work ing
with Photoshop
Once the client gets back to me with their picks, then I start working on
the final images—first in Lightroom, and then, if necessary, I jump over to
Photoshop. In this case, since we'll be doing some more involved portrait
retouching, we'll jump over to Photoshop for that stuff, but the process
always starts here in Lightroom.
Step One:
Once the client emails me their picks, I go
back to the Selects collection in the Library
module and I either flag just those images as
Picks, or I label them as Red by pressing the
number 6 on my keyboard (I don't usually
do this, but you could even make a separate
collection with just their final picks and
name it “Client Selects,” but that's totally
up to you). In this case, the client only
chose two shots (which I marked with a
Red label), and they'll both get very similar
retouches. There are two little tweaks I want
to make here in Lightroom, before heading
over to Photoshop: The first is to increase
the Exposure amount just a little, so the
image looks nice and bright (which is typi-
cal of beauty-style headshots), so go to the
Basic panel in the Develop module and drag
the Exposure slider to the right just a little
bit (here I increased it to +0.40).
Step Two:
The second thing I would do is darken
her shoulder and the back of her neck.
Her face is the focus of the image, and
the eye is naturally drawn to the brightest
thing in the photo first, and we don't
want that to be her shoulder, right?
So, get the Adjustment Brush (K) , choose
Exposure from the Effect pop-up menu
(to reset all your brush sliders to zero),
drag the Exposure slider a little to the left
so it darkens the image, then paint over
her shoulder and the back of her neck
(as shown here) to darken those areas.
Remember, after you paint, you can
always go back and change the Expo-
sure amount so it looks just right.
 
 
 
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