25 We also opened the Effects panel and added a small
amount of Grain, with Amount set at 50, Size is 25 and
Roughness 50. Back in the Basic panel, Dehaze has been
altered to +20 to give a slightly more contrasty feel to the shot
and bring out a little more detail in the textures.
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One adjustment you can add is targeting the brightest
areas of her face and gently accentuate them by using a
process called Dodging. This is a reference to the days of film
negatives where you would prevent areas of photographic
paper receiving too much light and making that area too bright.
28 You can create a new Adjustment Brush and set its
Exposure Value to about +0.60 and Highlights to about- Make sure the Feather is set to 100 and Flow is decreased
to about 40. This means you can build-up the effect gradually
without overdoing it too quickly.
29 Concentrate the brush on the bright parts of the skin on
her face and neck and follow the shape of obvious facial
contours. Like before, if this looks a little over the top, you can
adjust the Highlights value down to about 10, or until the effect
is as strong as you want it.30
With that final edit, this portrait is completed. You can of
course take it onwards to Photoshop and do any more
fine tuning or skin retouching if you need it, but in this case,
Lightroom has done most of the heavy lifting for you and as
ever, you can go back in and alter the adjustments at any time.26 If you wish, you can open the Detail panel and apply
Sharpening. You can target a zoomed preview by clicking
the Adjust Detail Zoom button and placing your cursor over an
area you want to preview as you apply sharpening. Once again,
do not overdo it, too much sharpening can ruin an image.
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