It makes use of the Lightroom 3 noise reduction engine. Note that this preset will also make other aspect of the picture a little bit smooth too (not too noticeable). So if you want to just smooth the skin without smoothing the other part, feel free to use Photoshop.
The Settings
Sample Image:
No, she's not nude. And click the pic for full size comparison.
Today, I taught a workshop about photo post-processing with Adobe Lightroom beta 3 to several Monash University student.
It was quite fun.
Most students never used Lightroom before, so we gotta go from the start.
I covered:
- Importing
- Flagging (Pick, color, star)
- Croping, Brush, Graduate Filter, Spot removal
- The basics of sliders on develop module
- Exporting
- Develop presets and Exporting presets
To my surprise, the whole thing only took less than an hour. I use 11 sample images to show stuff. Couple of landscapes and portraits.
Seems to me that people always tries to compare Lightroom to Photoshop. We had to explain the concept of ‘non-destructible image editing’ as opposed to layering in photoshop.
All in all, it was fun and I will record a screencast of the workshop on my mac later. Stay tuned.
I got a question from my friend earlier this week when she watch me as I edited my photos. She was asking me how did I manage to crop my photos freely as Lightroom always restrict her cropping. By default Lightroom lock your aspect ratio to the width x height of your photos.
So how do you go around breaking it?
Its really simple, but I’ll give you step by step to make it even more simple.
1. Open Lightroom
2. Go to Develop Module
3. Press “R” or crop on the desired photo
You should see the cropping rectangle and the guidelines.
4. Right click on the photo and select “Constrain Aspect Ratio” or just press “A”
You can toggle the Constrain Aspect Ratio whenever you want.
5. Voila! Now you should be able to crop your photos freely without restriction!
How did you go with that?
I believe this simple steps should help you crop with more freedom from now on. If you can’t get it to work, just let me know and I’ll try to help you further.
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