AI Adaptive Masks inside Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic have opened up a world of new creative possibilities! In this video, I will show you three ways to use Lightroom Classic’s Masking tools to enhance the lighting in your portrait photography.
Click here to download the examples in this video and play along! (Subscribers Only)
In the first section of this tutorial, I demonstrate how to use the Select Subject command and its opposite, the new Duplicate and Invert option, to improve the lighting on a group portrait.
Moving on to the second section, I’ll teach you a gentler lighting method that you can use to add soft hints of “golden beauty light” into your headshots. This technique, which makes use of the powerful Intersect Mask command, is a great way to brush subtle touches of light into select portions of your subject’s face and skin.
Finally, in the last section of this video, I have an astonishing trick for you. Here, I will teach you how to create the look of an additional light source behind your subject inside a portrait studio.
This “simulated backdrop light” technique uses the Radial Gradient Tool, along with an incredible AI masking trick, to create the appearance of a realistic light shining on the wall behind your subject! (A hat tip to the always inspiring Glyn Dewis for this technique.)
