We are thrilled to welcome back Jennifer Tonetti-Spellman for our first in a new photo editing tutorial series. Using her before and after photos, and some screenshots in between, she will demonstrate her photo editing style step by step so that we can all learn more about how to edit our images!
Before & After Photo Editing
This past weekend I held my annual Spring Minis for JellyBean Pictures. We had a mix of sun and clouds that day so white balance was a big challenge as the conditions changed and moved just as fast as this sweet little girl! My editing style is clean edits. I just love to keep an image as ‘pure’ as possible. My clean edits happen mostly in Lightroom.
Step 1- My first step was to adjust the pressing issue of white balance. Way too yellow, so I needed to add some blue.
Step 2- Next step up exposure just a bit (.25 of a stop).
Step 3- I still wasn’t happy with the exposure on her face, so I selected the brush tool and just painted on a little more brightness.
To activate the brush tool, hit the brush tool indicated by the arrow below. A drop down menu pops up. Slide up on the exposure, set your brush size and run it over the face.
You can go back and adjust the amount of exposure after you painted it on. Hit the ‘done’ button bottom right hand corner when satisfied.
Step 4- Mom pointed out a little bruise on her face she wanted removed. I selected the spot removal tool and chose ‘heal.’
This tool can be tricky at first. You select the area you want to ‘heal’ and then drag the outside circle around to ‘select’ how you want the healed area to look.
Step 5 – With all clean edits done, I sharpen (in this case I sharpened for WEB in Photoshop since I knew this was going online).
Here’s the Before and the After with clean edits:
Now it’s your turn! Join us tomorrow in our free online I Heart Faces Community for Fix-It Friday. You will have an opportunity to download Jennifer’s SOOC “Before” photo and show us your edits.
Do you enjoy photo editing? Would you like to show off your editing skills to a large community of photographers? To be considered as the featured photographer in one of our upcoming “Before & After” segments please contact I Heart Faces and we’ll send you more information as soon as possible!
Jennifer Tonetti-Spellman, owner of JellyBean Pictures is a die-hard, natural light, lifestyle photographer in New York who loves to search for the light. Like her on Facebook and follow her blog to continue being inspired by her beautiful work!
{ 14 comments… read them below or add one }
I’d should examine to you here. That is not something I normally do! I recieve pleasure from reading a put up which may get people to think. Additionally, thanks for allowing me to comment!
arduino.org recently posted..arduino.org
Kimber that is awesome- I love when that happens- when I discover a new time saving tip. So excited for you and thanks for the kind words about the edit. I’m excited to see what people do with the picture tomorrow! Danielle- I am sure it will come up in future Before/Afters since is just the kick off of the feature, but I will talk to Amy/Angie about maybe doing a tutorial solely on the brush tool and some other LR tips. Jen I am not sure. Sometimes I honestly think ‘save for web’ looks no different then when I unsharp mask. Let me know if you find out anything and vice versa…
You know, when I said sharpen for web – I should have said save for web and devices. So now, not only am I wondering about if I should use LR or PS for sharpening, but I’m also wondering if I should be using PS for saving web? Jennifer – do you know anything about this by any chance? I’ll have to look into this more. I try to stay in LR as much as I can because I save so much time and my macbook pro really has a hard time going from LR to PS.
Jen recently posted..A Baby and her Pop
I have a really hard time with the brush tool, wondering if you could do a post on just the brush tool with any tips and tricks you have to be successful. Thanks, these posts are extremely helpful as I am new to Lightroom. Thank you so much!
Oh my goodness. I’ve had Lightroom for three years. I use it for all my raw photo editing. I had NO IDEA you can use the brush tool to correct exposure. This is the most amazing thing I’ve learned in a looooong time!!!! I usually just underexpose all my pictures in lr and then open them all in ps to lighten up the people. How did I not know that I could do it all right there in lr!!??? You’ve saved me hours of editing!! What a fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much!!! (And beautiful edit too. I absolutely love the results!
We're so excited to kick off a new photo editing segment on I Heart Faces today! Jennifer from JellyBean… http://t.co/GLXprnmU
Yay! So glad everyone is finding it useful and even picking up a few tricks. Jen/Annina, I think it’s more of a habit for me. After I edit in LR I always take it out and look at it again in PS- one thing I find a little odd in LR is there is only (1) ‘zoom’ you can do on the picture (and please if anyone knows how to zoom in at different levels, please let me know!) So I like to look it over at various zooms in PS to make sure I didn’t miss anything. While I was there, I just sharpened for web. Jen I am going to check that out in LR and see if I like it too. Again, it’s just force of habit for me, and when I do work with actions after clean edits, I just pull into PS so I am ‘already there’ and then end with a little sharpening. PS: Thanks for the ‘love’ Anna
Can’t wait to get my hands on this photo! I love it!
Thanks for the very thorough tutorial. It’s always nice to watch others edit.
As far as sharpening goes – before getting Lightroom, I always sharpened for web in Photoshop. Now with Lightroom, I’ve been using the sharpening for screen option during export in Lightroom.
Do you or anyone else know any reason why I should switch back to using Photoshop’s sharpen for web? It’s so much quicker this way and it looks good to me, but I may be missing something.
Jen recently posted..A Baby and her Pop
This is great! I have Camera Raw and have always wanted to know how to use the brush to touch up exposure. This post motivate me to learn it!! Thanks!! I am so excited to fix some pics I couldn’t before.
BTW I love Jelly Bean Pictures!
Awesome–I had NO idea about using the brush tool and that is an amazing trick!
Thank you so much. I love the clean edit style. One question: why do you sharpen in Photoshop? It seems that a lot of people do that, but I don’t understand why not doing it in Lightroom, too.
This is my favorite edit… just a great clean shot! Thanks for the tutorial (i use PSE, but i can surely apply it there).
GREAT tutorial – photo editing isn’t my favorite – and I don’t like to get TOO fancy. Love the clean edit style.
{ 1 trackback }