Continuing with Adobe Lightroom software

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 Post-production editing

I have edited 6 more portraits using Lightroom. The first thing I did was to choose one of the black-and-white presets that was available and adjust the levels of exposure and texture etc.

Lightroom doesn't seem to work very well on the college facilities. A lot of the commands do not seem to be available and do not work properly. For example, the masks that are preset for eyes, hair, background etc do not seem to work so I've had to create my own masks. This has been time-consuming, especially doing all this with a mouse and not a stylus pen.








Below is the original photo of Mandy, the first edit I did on my phone and my final edit which I did within Lightroom. Theres a huge difference with the edit I did on my phone compared to the edit using Adobe Lightroom. I did like the gritty, grungy and high contrast look from the first edit on my phone but I wasn’t happy with how all the detail and texture in her hair, eyes and clothes were lost. My final edit on Lightroom was successful because I was able to achieve the things I wasn't able to achieve in my first edit, this was all down to the masks that I created on Lightroom working on the individual parts of the image adjusting the levels to suit. I look forward to getting to use this sotware in the future as it has made a huge difference to the ‘Lee Jeffries style’ I wanted to achieve.


 





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