RAW Editing - Outdoor Portrait retouching

In this raw portrait editing tutorial I will show you how to edit an outdoor portrait shot with in natural light and using a reflector. In this tutorial we’ll see the following: First I will edit the image in Lightroom or Camera RAW to make the basic edits

• fix the white balance based on the effect I want to achieve

• change camera calibration settings to tweak the colors

• Change the color luminosity in HSL to focus the light on the model

• Change the Tone Curve to add micro contrast

Once we move in Photoshop we will do the following:

• Remove skin glossiness caused by the reflector

• Fix face lighting using Curves and layer masks

• Enhance skin using Frequency separation

• Sharpen lips and eyes which are out of focus

• Naturally enhance eyes light and color with Hue/Saturation and blend modes

• Use adjustment Layers and Camera RAW to create the final effect

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