Editing a High Key Portrait
In Lightroom
A brief introduction to some editing tools I used in Adobe Lightroom 2.0.
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A brief introduction to some editing tools I used in Adobe Lightroom 2.0.
Thanks for the tutorial – really simple and nice explained.
I loved it! Hope you’ll post more video tutorials!
Hi Jake,
Great video with lots of interesting ways of editing in Lightroom.
Be aware that you applied the wrong preset to your photo when you exported the .psd file. Looking forward to your next video(s) and photos!
Have a nice weekend,
Dirk Hardy
Great as always, thanks Jake!
Nice explanations and easy to fallow.I noticed you saved it out as a PSD as opposed to right clicking and hitting edit in PS. Is there a reason? Wonderful work and I look forward to the next video.
Kim,
You can’t open a RAW file in Photoshop, if you right click a raw file and select “edit in PS” it will actually open in Adobe Camera Raw – not Photoshop. The export command allows you to actually open the file directly in Photoshop, skipping ACR entirely.
-Jake
Thanks so much for sharing….it’s always great to look at others’ workflows, because you almost always pick up something useful that you can apply in your own work right away. I look forward to the Photoshop vid!
Jake,
great tutorial and website. you give alot of inspiration and i check back often
in my experience in the right click and edit in CS4 with a raw file photoshop opens the file in CS4. after you are done working on it it saves the file back to lightroom as a PSD file or tiff. i think it is whatever you set as your file options in your LR settings, but i have never had ACR open when doing it this way. am i missing something here?
Mike
that was soooo good! i got 2 minutes in and i’m trying to get a copy of lightroom first thing tomorrow! thanks for the effort and looking forward to seeing some more!
Mike,
I had no idea about that… I’ll have to set my Lightroom up better! Thanks!
Jake,
no problem. it is in the preferences tab and the external editing tab of LR. you can chose a tiff or psd. i choose psd and it saves back and stacks it next to my original file in LR with the layers i have created in tact. that way if i want to go back into CS4 and change a layer or something it is very easy to do so. LR is very awesome and does very well for catalog management. i am still learning alot as far as editing and your tutorials are great!! thanks for your tutorials.
Mike
Thanks for sharing…it’s nice to see your workflow.
Great posts. Love the behind the scenes stuff. Makes it so fun to read/look through. Thanks for the tutorial. Makes me want to go back to raw. I have been editing in the raw editor, but not shooting in raw. Question: What color space do you work/blog/save in?? My images are so washed out once they get to the web. Pointers? Thanks!
Randi,
I convert all my photos to sRGB for the web… seems to work well! If you use the “Save for Web” command in Photoshop you need to click that little arrow with a circle around it (next to the preset) and in there you will see and option to convert to sRGB.
-Jake
I would love to see the editing process on the one of your son in the mail box!!
Jake -
When boosting photos to your site from lightroom, what do you preset for size? My images are too big for my site. Shrinking them down in iphoto or Picasa is what I’ve had to do. (I only shoot RAW – shrink down to JPEG is mandatory for site, but can’t be larger than 2mb.) Also, lightroom watermarks invisibly. How are you marking visibly? (I’ve found this in Picasa, too.)
Just bought Lightroom, so tutorial is sooooo appreciated.
Thanks.
Deb.