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Improving a portrait of Sophia

Improving a portrait of Sophia

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Improving a portrait of Sophia

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- [Chris] Hello and welcome to "Photo Tools Weekly." In this week's episode, we are in Lightroom Classic and here I want to show you how we can improve this natural light portrait of my daughter Sophia. And, in this episode, essentially I want to go through a work flow but also highlight a few tips and tricks when you have images with a lot of brightness like we have up here so that we can look at the clipping and how we can correct that clipping issue. All right, well let's start off with this image by cropping it. And to access the Crop tool in Lightroom, you can tap the R key or you can click on the Crop tool icon. Now typically you'll want to maintain your aspect ratio. So you want this to be locked down, you can press the A key to lock that or unlock that or just click on the icon. Next step is to click and drag and what I wanted to do is to crop away the edge over here with the stalks of this hay behind her or…

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