I hope that you will find these tips to be helpful as you hone your newborn photography and editing skills using Lightroom and Pretty Presets awesome Bella Baby Collection! Here are some our other favorite Newborn Photography Tutorialsġ. Then, I look for any little issues that catch my eye, like a piece of lint or a misplaced hair and try to touch those up. Lastly, I use the sharpen tool and brush over the baby’s eyes, eyebrows, nose, hair, mouth, and any other areas I want to have stand out. Or sometimes there is too much contrast for my liking.Įveryone has a different style of editing, and this is where you can create your own! For example, sometimes the highlights can be affected and I need to bring them back down. Step 4. Additional Adjustmentsįrom there, I give my image an overall examination to see if anything needs to be adjusted using my sliders on the right-side panel. Then, I simply paint over the baby’s skin, trying my best to avoid the hair, eyelashes, nose, mouth, and any areas I want to stay sharp and in focus. I drop the clarity of the brush down to around -45 and make sure the feathering and density slider is all the way up.
It's that easy!įinally, I smooth the baby’s skin using the Bella Baby skin smoothing brush. Just select one of the Bella Baby brushes, adjust the density to your liking, and then brush over the problem area to remove unwanted flaws in the skin. There are brushes in the Bella Baby Collection that fix these newborn skin issues like magic! Next, I check the baby’s skin for color imperfections, like too much red, yellow, purple, or in some cases jaundice. The first thing I do is look for blemishes spots, and blotches, and remove them using the clone and heal tool (this tool is found in the upper right-side panel). Once I have my preset in place, I move on to the baby’s skin. Then I pull them up side-by-side to get a comparison of all three, and most of the time one will stand out to me right away. I make a couple of virtual copies of my image and apply a different preset to each one. Usually, I find two or three presets that I love on my image, so how do I decide on which one to choose? I love finding that perfect and magical newborn preset that brings my image to life! I always scroll through my Bella Baby Newborn presets until I find a couple that really compliment my image or catch my eye in a good way. Simply click one of these presets and it will correct the white balance for you - quick and easy! The third option is using the White Balance Fix I and White Balance Fix II presets from the Enchanted Garden Collection. The second option is to use your temperature and tint sliders on the right-side panel, which will allow you to warm up an image or cool it down. Once you do this, thhe white balance should adjust accordingly. Just click on the white dropper and find a neutral or grey color on your image usually, the white’s of a person’s eyes work best. The first method I use to fix white balance in Lightroom is using the white dropper, which is located on the right-side panel. If you don’t get your white balance correct in camera, don’t worry there are other methods of fixing it in Lightroom. To solve this issue, I use a grey card to correct my white balance in camera. If you are shooting indoors and using lighting equipment, a good white balance can be one of the most difficult things to achieve. Here are some helpful tips for editing newborn photos in Lightroom: I used to struggle with editing newborn sessions, but using the Pretty Presets Bella Baby Presets Collection has made editing them a breeze! There are a few things I do differently when editing my newborns, compared to what I normally do with my other portrait sessions. But it can also be one of the most rewarding! Newborn photography is more popular than ever and is one of the more challenging types of photo sessions for photographers to pose, shoot AND edit.
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