Easy Portrait Retouching With Lightroom Classic & Photoshop

Access Lightroom and Photoshop through Creative Cloud plans, choosing a photography package with Lightroom CC, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop CC, then install on Mac or PC with cloud storage options.

Explain the difference between Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC, and when to use desktop retouching with Lightroom Classic versus mobile edits with Lightroom CC.

Learn to quickly import images into Lightroom from your desktop or disk, select the ones you want with tick boxes, and apply a preset and copyright metadata during import.

Master Lightroom's library interface by using the navigator and grid view, zoom into images with one on one and fit options, and toggle full-size view with spacebar and F.

Explore Lightroom catalogs, create collections and smart collections, and organize images by a five-star rating for client selections, while identifying missing files and publishing to Facebook, Flickr, or Adobe Stock.

Master Lightroom's library filters to access metadata such as camera info, years, focal lengths, ratings, and color labels. Learn to search text and reset views to organize and locate photos.

Import images in Lightroom using card readers or cameras, apply presets, then export with options for file name, formats like tiff, resize, resolution, sharpening, watermarks, and post-processing with Photoshop.

Explore hidden Lightroom functions you can toggle, including flags, ratings, color labels, rotation, and the spray can tool, plus navigation options like grid, lightbox, and slideshow.

Explore Lightroom’s additional functions, including location data with maps, creating books by dragging and arranging photos, and building slideshows or prints with license-free music for personal use.

Learn to use Lightroom's develop tool to analyze an image and apply five major changes: adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, color with HSL, and add a vignette to enhance storytelling.

Learn how to reset to a standard baseline, create a Lightroom preset for basic development and exposure correction, and adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, and vibrance to enhance portraits.

Explore presets to manage exposure and contrast for portrait retouching in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, adjusting vibrance, clarity, white balance, highlights, and blacks for high-contrast or painterly looks.

Adjust the tone curve in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to control contrast by manipulating highlights, shadows, midtones, using linear and S-curve styles, and fine-tune color with individual channel shifts.

Master before-and-after views of basic adjustments in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, explore tone and color presets, and experiment with the color spectrum to refine portrait retouching.

Explore using the HSL panel in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop to adjust color ranges, saturation, and luminance for skin tones and color styling.

Convert an image to black and white by lowering saturation, then boost contrast using red channel adjustments and basic tweaks for skin tones, exposure, and clarity, plus presets.

Learn to achieve a Hollywood look using split toning by adjusting exposure, contrast, and saturation to create warm highlights and blue shadows.

Fine tune portraits by controlling highlights and shadows with gradients, radial tools, and adjustment brushes in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, enabling localized exposure edits and subtle vignettes.

Apply clone and healing tools in Lightroom to fix red-eye, eye imperfections, and dust, and transfer sky corrections across images; note Lightroom's cloning limits and Photoshop alternatives.

Explore the standard Lightroom workflow for portrait editing, covering image navigation, exposure, contrast, color adjustments, composition fine-tuning, gradients, and quick retouching, with options to edit in Photoshop using smart objects.

Master smart objects to keep Lightroom edits non-destructive, then refine with Adobe Camera Raw's adjustments, tone curve, and sharpening. Apply crop, straighten, healing, and red eye tools for portrait polish.

Explore radial filter adjustments in Camera Raw to selectively tweak exposure, highlights, shadows, and color temperature for portrait lighting and detail.

Discover Bridge as a great alternative to Lightroom for portrait retouching, using Adobe Camera Raw, metadata keywords, and workflows that open in Photoshop.

Master a quick portrait retouching workflow in Photoshop, using smart objects, rasterizing layers when needed, and blemish corrections with healing and patch tools to keep natural skin.

Fix blemishes with the patch tool in Photoshop on a separate layer, balance realism with opacity and masks to preserve natural texture.

Master spot healing brush and healing brush tools to fix blemishes and smudges in Photoshop. Learn to work on a new layer or adjust opacity to preserve freckles.

Learn quick and easy ways to fix flash spots on portraits using light brushwork and opacity adjustments, then master frequency separation for natural skin retouching.

Master frequency separation in Photoshop to split skin into tonality and texture layers, adjust with blending options, and paint with varying opacity to preserve pores.

Learn how to record a frequency separation action in Photoshop, including creating and naming the action, organizing layers with tonality, and applying radius settings for future images.

Learn to fix skin quickly with frequency separation in Photoshop, blending tonality and color layers to smooth texture while preserving realism. Adjust opacity and brush strokes for natural results.

Record a Photoshop action for a single background layer by duplicating layers and adding a new frequency separation; ensure the action runs smoothly on a layered setup.

Use dodge and burn to shape the face while preserving skin tone and overall contrast. Create a soft light 50 percent gray layer to sculpt features with balanced tonal adjustments.

Demonstrates dodge and burn techniques to sculpt facial features by painting shadows and highlights on separate layers, using black and white, soft brushes, and controlled opacity for natural retouching.

Enhance contrast with a gradient map, using black and white gradients and soft light blending. Apply localized contrast with a brush on a mask to best emphasize eyes and lips.

Shape the model with liquify for small, flattering adjustments on separate layers, use dodge and burn for subtle contrast, and, if desired, convert to a smart filter for non-destructive edits.

Master sensor dust removal in portrait retouching using Adobe Camera Raw with Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, applying healing brush and spot removal for natural results.

Blend and soften the background to match subject depth of field, then apply targeted color and texture corrections with masks and blending modes to create a realistic composite.

Bring the portrait together in ACR by refining exposure, contrast, highlights, and shadows, then enhance color with grading and split toning for a cohesive background integration.

Learn a quick Photoshop skin softening workflow using the Nik Collection color effects pro presets, with optional frequency separation, opacity control, and masking to balance realism and a graphic finish.

Create a painterly portrait look by applying noise reduction and sharpening in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, preserving eye and lip detail with careful unsharp masking.

master the high key look in Lightroom Classic, adjusting exposure, highlights, shadows, and whites to keep the background airy while using masking, noise reduction, and custom presets for consistent portraits.

Master quick skin softening in Photoshop and Lightroom using luminance and grain, applying frequency separation and opacity control to preserve texture for natural portraits.

Learn to paint in skin softening with grain, adjust roughness and opacity in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, and use smart objects to revise the effect for natural before-and-after portraits.

Apply final portrait adjustments by softening shadows, dodging and burning for contrast, refine texture with frequency separation or painting, and ensure a true white high-key background for a pin-up look.

Transform a white high-key background into a vintage look by applying totally rad texture overlays and using color range selections and masks for precise blending with the subject.

Apply final adjustments in Camera Raw to refine a portrait, using color range, subtle brushwork, and a vintage look with a controlled vignette, spotlight, contrast, and clarity.

Discover how to build a low-key look in Lightroom using exposure adjustments, graduated filters, and cropping, with optional presets and bluish tones, then apply the technique in Photoshop.

Master the powder technique for skin softening in portrait retouching—akin to frequency separation—using inverted layers, high pass, and masking to preserve texture while smoothing skin.

Master the powder technique and inverted layers to soften skin while preserving texture and scratches, then refine with liquify and levels for a natural look.

Speed up your portrait workflow by creating a preset, duplicating images with a virtual copy, and syncing that look across all selected images in Lightroom Classic.

Save your edited image by using shift-command-S or Ctrl+S, preserve layers with a Photoshop file, then export as JPEG or TIFF with 8‑ or 16‑bit depth.

Configure Lightroom preferences to optimize editing workflow, choosing 8- or 16-bit color, and setting a print-ready 300 resolution, plus selecting a consistent color space for external editors.

Learn beauty retouching in Lightroom using the adjustment brush to sculpt exposure, dodge and burn, sharpen, crop, and whiten teeth, with tips on brush size, feather, and density.

Discover how to craft a vintage film look in Lightroom by using adjustment brush tweaks, tone and color grading, and subtle grain, then sharpen and prepare for Photoshop refinements.

Apply sepia color grading in Photoshop, adjust saturation to create a vintage look, and add grain to enhance texture in easy portrait retouching.

Create and compare multiple edit versions in Photoshop using history, snapshots, and layers. Save different looks, including sepia, to preserve options for easy future adjustments.

Explore blending modes like overlay, soft light, multiply, and screen to craft portrait contrast, then apply a sepia tint and compare before and after.

Explore localized dodge and burn with tint to selectively adjust contrast. Use a brush with white foreground at about 30% opacity, invert masks, and create snapshots to compare edits.

Explore dodge and burn techniques, gradient maps, and color balance to make the eyes sparkle while enhancing contrast and overall portrait texture in Photoshop and Lightroom Classic.

Apply selective color changes to modify eye color, lipstick, blush, and eyeshadow in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, using soft light or color blending modes with opacity and saturation adjustments.

Create a vintage look by recording a Photoshop and Lightroom action, then apply saturation and contrast boosts, bright center lighting, a soft vignette, and cross-processing color shifts.

Apply vintage and sepia looks in Lightroom with adjustable opacity to create varied color grading options. Compare before and after images, experiment with history to generate multiple variations.

Explore black and white tricks for portraits by comparing Lightroom and Photoshop adjustments, including gradient map, warmth tweaks, and soft light blending to vary contrast and a vintage look.

Master practical retouching with the clone stamp tool in Photoshop, sampling from surrounding areas to fix a chipped nail, smooth skin, and refine color grading and tonality in Camera Raw.

Learn to sharpen portraits using unsharp mask with adjustable threshold and radius, explore high-pass sharpening with soft light blending, and balance detail with noise reduction.

Create a name-based watermark as a brush preset in Photoshop, save it as a watermark, and apply it to images with adjustable size, color, and opacity.

Insert a copyright symbol from custom shapes, customize its color, and apply bevel and emboss to create a 3d logo; adjust transparency and opacity for a clean finish.

Learn how to place a transparent watermark in Lightroom as a quick alternative to Photoshop, using your logo or graphics, adjust anchor point, size, and opacity, and export with presets.

Master quick portrait retouching in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop with softening skin, subtle edits, and localized adjustments like eye color and teeth whitening, plus presets to speed up workflows.

Learn how to use speed presets for portrait retouching in Lightroom Classic and Photoshop. Download presets and watch them in action to accelerate your editing workflow.

Master quick reset tricks in Lightroom: reset presets to zero, revert white balance and presence, and reset individual sliders or tools, using shortcuts to speed up edits.