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Improve a studio portrait

Improve a studio portrait

- [Instructor] Hello friends in this week's episode, we are in Lightroom and Photoshop. We're going to look at how we can improve this studio portrait. Alright well you can see there's a really nice soft light source. You can see the light there a little bit. I need to fix that. Fix a little bit of the background. Also the ground there as well. But let's start off with some basic adjustments. Here the histogram is showing us that this image is kind of leaning to the left. So I want to brighten that up a little bit. Can you see how we're kind of pulling over the brightness values there? So I'm just opening up my exposure a little bit. It was slightly underexposed. So I want to correct and fix that. I want to add a little bit of contrast. One, just because I love contrast. I love the way it looks. I love the edge that it gives to a photograph. Open up my shadows or brighten up my shadows just a smidge there as well.…

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