Why do you recommend Lightroom in the later period of portrait photography?

Some photographers use Photoshop or portraits.

Pro and other plug-ins for portrait modification. There's nothing wrong with that. These programs can be done well, especially if you retouch portraits at a high level. But you may be surprised at Lightroom's excellent performance in retouching portraits. All the portraits in Lightroom are retouched for compelling reasons. Here are some of them:

1. You can use Lightroom presets to create different appearances.

Whether you buy presets made by other photographers, download free gifts from the Internet, or make your own presets, you can open a new world. Some presets used to simulate movies (such as those of VSCO and Mastin Lab), black-and-white photography and presets that can create almost any appearance you can imagine.

The whole preset system can be purchased or assembled-it aims to make it faster and easier to develop the preset of portrait than to modify the right panel in the photo module separately.

Use three different Lightroom presets for processing to create three different appearances.

2. You can easily batch process portraits in Lightroom.

Another advantage of using Development Preset in Lightroom is that it can easily process your portraits in batches. In any portrait conference, when you explore various poses, costumes and scenes, you will naturally take many photos (maybe hundreds). If you want to process these photos on the computer as little as possible, developing presets is the key.

You don't need to leave Lightroom to smooth your skin.

The main selling point of portrait plug-ins is that you can use them to make anyone's skin look beautiful. If these plug-ins are overused, the harm of these plug-ins is to remove the skin texture and make it look over-processed and plastic.

But what you may not know is that the adjustment brush in Lightroom is a good tool for portrait retouching. Softening skin presets can help you smooth your skin while preserving the texture when using the Adjust Brush tool.

After applying the effect, you can reduce the opacity of the brush and completely control the strength. Combined with therapeutic brush tool, it is very suitable for eliminating defects and can decorate almost any portrait.

4. Save hard disk space

I always advise you to work in Lightroom as much as possible, and only export photos to Photoshop or plug-ins when absolutely necessary. The main reasons are hard disk space and workflow.

Whenever you export a photo, Lightroom must convert it from Raw format to a file format that the program can understand. For the best quality, you should use 16-bit TIFF-

Files larger than Raw. 16-bit TIFF file is very large and will fill your hard disk quickly.

Modifying the original file in Lightroom can save more space. When you save everything in Lightroom, the workflow will be smoother.

5.Lightroom can help you create a natural look.

One of the biggest risks of using Photoshop or plug-ins is that you may over-embellish your portrait. This is very common in movie posters, so that actors can hardly recognize it, and advertisements are expensive.

Most people failed. A model once told a photographer to enlarge her eyes and change her face in Photoshop. She didn't like the result at all, and thought it wasn't her photo anymore.

Lightroom is very suitable for dealing with portraits with natural appearance.

The advantage of Lightroom here is that it has no function like Photoshop, so there is no temptation to use it to distort the shape of the model's face. Lightroom can help you maintain a true and natural appearance.

What happens when you can't rely on Photoshop to decorate someone's face or figure? You must learn how to do this by lighting and posing. Indirect use of Lightroom can help you become a better portrait photographer.

conclusion

Photoshop and portrait retouching plug-ins are powerful tools, but Lightroom is equally excellent, even better, because it can prevent you from over-processing portraits.