Lighting a Portrait with Lightroom

Learn how to use Lightroom's Adjustment Brush and Radial Filter to selectively light portrait shots.

Improve your lighting in post with Adobe Lightroom. Chris Orwig shows how to employ Lightroom's Develop module to enhance the lighting of portraits in two different ways. In the first project, he uses the Adjustment Brush to selectively paint light into a portrait. In the second, he uses the Radial Filter to brighten different areas of an image. Start watching to learn how to make your portraits pop.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Lighting with the Adjustment Brush

• A crash course in Adjustment Brush basics
• Adjustment Brush advanced topics
• Painting in light with the Adjustment Brush
• Working with multiple Adjustment Brush adjustments

2. Lighting with the Radial Filter

• A crash course in the Radial Filter basics
• Beginning with Basic adjustments
• Lighting a portrait with the Radial Filter
• Making final adjustments in the Basic panel