Lightroom Presets v5 Mixology Recipe

Lightroom Presets v5 Mixology Recipe

COLOR PORTRAIT WITH RETOUCH AND ENHANCEMENT – WEEKLY ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY LIGHTROOM EDIT – E02

Develop Mixology
01-10 Base – Soft: 11a Extra Soft – Skin Desat
03-00 Adjust – Exposure: 07 Brighten +1.0 (then manually adjusted to +0.70 on the right side panal)


Local Adjustments
14 Clothing | Texture
06 Dodge (whiten) +4 Stops
15 Hair | Lashes
26 Lip Enhancer








PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOT RETOUCH IN LIGHTROOM – WEEKLY ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY LIGHTROOM EDIT – E03

Lightroom Presets v5 Mixology Recipe

In this tutorial we started 2 of our presets, to help us find and remove dust. After that we used 1 preset to give us the soft portrait look, and then we fine tuned the image using our Brush presets.

Develop Mixology
03-80 ADJUST – TOOLS: 81. Dust Correction Curve
03-80 ADJUST – TOOLS: 80. Reset Curve
01-10 BASE – SOFT: 11a. Extra Soft – Skin Desat
03-00 ADJUST – EXPOSURE: 06. BRIGHTEN +.05
03-40 ADJUST – SHADOW BLACKS: 43 Darken – Light (+10,-20)


Local Adjustments
21 Skin Softener
23 Line Diminisher
24 Eye Brightener
25 Iris Enhancer
26 Lip Enhancer
15 Hair | Lashes
03 Burn (Darken) -0.5 Stop


To see exactly how the presets and Local Adjustments were applied, please watch the video tutorial below.









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NATURAL HDR PORTRAITURE – WEEKLY ORDINARY TO EXTRAORDINARY LIGHTROOM EDIT – E07










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