Course modules
Here is a complete list of all the modules in the Lightroom Mastery: People & Portraits course.
1 Introduction
Welcome to Lightroom Mastery: Portraits and People, here is what to expect.
2 Adjustment Brush Overview
The adjustment brush is one of our most powerful tools when editing people and portraits – lets cover how to use it properly.
3 Creating Brush Presets
Now that you know how to use the adjustment brush I’d like to show you how to create your own custom brush presets for future use.
4 Importing Custom Brushes
A great thing about Lightroom is that you can also import custom brush presets from the internet, I’m going to show you how.
5 Balancing Exposure using Brushes
One excellent way to use the adjustment brush is to balance over/underexposed parts of an image. Here are two examples of how to do this.
6 Radial Filters for Vignettes
One of the most common uses for the radial filter is to create beautiful vignettes around your subjects. Here are the ways I like to use the radial filter to.
7 Radial Filters for Creative Editing
Sometimes I find the radial filter is quicker and easier than the adjustment brush for doing creative local editing on an image. Here are some examples.
8 Black and White Points
Its very important to find the black and white point in any image, but especially in photos of people. I’m going to show you what the black and white points.
9 Crop Tool - Snapshots
Sometimes our casual people photos aren’t shot with the best composition. Here are a few examples of improving casual snapshots through cropping.
10 Crop Tool - Creative images
The crop tool can really improve our creative portraits and people photos, here are a few of how to improve your images by cropping.
11 Editing Irises
The eyes are the windows to the soul, and the iris is the centerpiece! I’m going to show you how to dramatically bring the iris to life!
12 Editing Eye Whites and Veins
Making eyes ‘pop’ in a photo requires also working on the eye whites and removing veins – here is how to do it properly.
13 Balancing Exposure in Eyes
Sometimes one eye is much darker than the other in a photo, here is how to balance them out so they look great and more even.
14 Fixing Highlights/Hotspots
It is very common for people to have shiny highlights/hotspots if they are photographed outside or if the temperature is high. This can be tricky but I’m going to show.
15 Wrinkles, Bags, Blemishes - Part 1
Everyone has various wrinkles, bags under their eyes, and blemishes, and editing them properly can be one of the most dramatic improvements you can make to a persons photograph. In.
16 Skin Smoothing - Part 1
Now that this image has had the wrinkles bags and blemishes edited, we can finish the image by smoothing out the texture of the skin.
17 Wrinkles, Bags, Blemishes - Part 2
This portrait has a different feel and far more blemishes in the skin so we will edit this image from top to bottom and correct everything.
18 Skin Smoothing - Part 2
Now that we’ve corrected wrinkles and blemishes I’m going to show you how to smooth out the skin tone.
19 Wrinkles, Bags, Blemishes - Part 3
In this image I’m going to show you how to use the often-neglected ‘visualize spots’ tool to quickly identify and fix blemishes.
20 Skin Smoothing - Part 3
To finish this image we’ll smooth out the skin using masks and the adjustment brush.
21 Editing Lips
22 Whitening Teeth
By far one of the most common editing tasks, I’m going to show you how to quickly whiten your subjects teeth so it looks real.
23 Fixing Flyaway Hair
Its nearly impossible to keep long hair in place in general but especially outside. I’m going to show you how I edit out flyaway hair from an image.
24 Editing Eyebrows and Facial Hair
Sometimes peoples eyebrows and facial hair need to be tamed – in this image I’m going to show you the best methods to edit them properly.
25 Dodging and Burning - Part 1
Dodging and burning can really add structure to your subjects faces and bodies. In this video I’ll show you how to define a jawline and cheekbones by dodging and burning.
26 Dodging and Burning - Part 2
In this video I’m going to show you how to use dodging and burning to further define the structure of our subjects face in a professional portrait.
27 Dodging and Burning - Part 3
In our final dodging and burning video I’m going to show you how to use this method to bring out more ‘shine and depth’ in a black and white portrait.
28 Sunset Fashion Portrait
Now its time to bring all of our techniques together for a top-to- bottom beauty portrait edit.
29 Professional Headshot
While editing this professional headshot we will do general edits, detailed skin editing, eyes, teeth, and more.
30 Editing Children's Portraits
Editing kids can be very different than editing adults. I’ll show you how I like to edit photos of kids and bring out the best.
31 Black and White Conversion
Editing and converting a black and white photo of people can be different than a color photo. I’ll show you the method I use from start to finish when converting.
32 Rustic Western Portrait
This image has a very rugged and rustic appeal to it, so I’m going to show you how to add that kind of ‘character’ in our color choices, using grain,.
33 Conclusion
Now that you’ve been through the course you should feel confident and sure that you can bring out the best in photographs of people, thank you for joining me!
