HEY - so I actually meant to mention this in the video and now I just re-watched it and realized I didn't and it was kind of important. I actually picked a photo that was slightly soft to use in the edit - I wanted to show that you could still save a soft portrait if you had to. Obviously you always want to aim to get the focus perfect in camera, but yeah I though it'd be interesting to show fixing that element. SORRY I totally forgot to mention that in the actual video, but hopefully this gives some context 😬
Absolutely...I just moved to Lightroom/Photoshop about 8 months ago (after many years of Paintshop Pro) and this is the first video that called out auto mask...game changer. Thanks Lucy!
I am new to Lightroom and have watched a ton of videos. You are, by far, the best at tutorials. I love the way you talk through each step and make it so that it is easy to follow along with what you are doing. I also love that you don't over process images. Truer to life! Be safe and healthy Lucy. Btw...love your name too!
Lucy, your editing videos are all very well done. My wife (also a photographer) and I find them very helpful. Thank you. In your last video on the XT3 (which I own and find excellent), you asked for recommendations on whether you should do more gear reviews. Someone last week commented that there are already a ton of gear reviewers on RUclips, hinting that you should stay in your niche. I both agree and disagree with that. First, you have an excellent set of Lightroom videos (please keep them coming!), and I am looking forward to when you start doing Photoshop as well. However, I sometimes worry you may eventually run out of "editing" material for new videos. To negate that potential problem, you may want to start doing more equipment reviews to broaden out your channel and content. My only concrete suggestion is to do reviews on items you truly love (or perhaps really dislike, but this requires care). Your current work is very genuine, that's why people like it. You need to keep that. Best Regards, Tim
Hi Tim, thanks so much for your thoughts on this. I sometimes get a little overwhelmed with all the potential ways to go with this channel, and I agree with you that I don't want to get sort of stuck doing just one thing and basically run out of ideas. I really appreciate your insight on the review videos, because I do think it's a space where really well-thought out honest reviews would be helpful for people. As you mentioned, I think it's going to be about finding a balance as I go forward. I would really like to expand the channel and topics in terms of material. I'm thinking mixing in reviews, tutorials, and perhaps some more business focused videos to really round of the channel. We'll see how it goes! Thanks for the insight and the great thoughts on taking the channel forward, I really does help 😊
Great tutorial, simple solid workflow but for the love of God, use an image that the eyes and lips are in focus. Not the hair sticking out to the side 😬🤘🏻
i really enjoy watching your tutorial videos even when they are about something i already know. because you know what you are talking about, your vids are straight to the point, and your voice is pleasant. thank you very much.
Spicy thumbnail Lucy! Great video. I find that if you sharpen the hair, just slightly, it frames the face nicely too. Depends on the image, obviously works best on long hair and I usually do the sharpening via high pass in photoshop.
I'm a beginner...I've been using the brush to individually go over all the exposed skin to soften. I've looked up tutorials in the past to see how the heck I can make this easier. ...never once has anyone mentioned the auto mask. I feel like such a moron putting SO MUCH effort in when that was there. Haven't had time to try it, but I will as soon as I get home. Thank you so much for bringing that option up!!
Most excellent video, thanks again! As for the "softness" of your image, no worries here as I choose to focus on the intent of the tutorial :) and the satisfaction of my learning curve
Thanks so much Zach. I feel super silly that I didn’t mention why I picked a bit of soft photo in the video but hopefully people will understand. Thanks for the nice comment about it ☺️
Wow! You are a wonderful teacher! Thank you for sharing your Master Class with the community LR users trying to figure it out. Looking forward to more Master Class time with you!
You deserve so many more views. I've never come across someone who manages to make editing so simple, and you explain it perfectly in just a couple of minutes. Truly impressive. I've watched all for your lightroom videos and you have helped me improve an insane amount. Thank you for these videos!
Fantastic video Lucy!! I especially love the tip about the skin softening with the largest brush! You're very much helping my edits, and helping me to look better as a Tog. Cheers!
LAWL okay, here's the super secret tip. Live in a super cold area, hate the cold, stay inside. Never see the light of day or the sun. Become a vampire :)
Thanks for taking us back to Lightroom portrait ediiting basics! Quick Question: When or if do you hit the Auto Tone button? I find myself using that as a starting point..is that good or bad? Keep up the great work! HG
Another great video, Lucy. I watch a tonne of videos on similar subjects on RUclips but I'm always kinda surprised just how much more new stuff I learn from yours. 👌
Hello beautiful Lucy. I really like your tutorials , simple and to the point.Keep it up....really like that softening technique..I don't PS that often.Most of my workflow is done in LR. Looking forward to the next one.
Well done Lucy, another great tutorial! Thanks! didn't know about the auto mask. Would love to see how you use the range mask otherwise (if you use it). That seems like a very great tool too.
That makes me super happy to hear! Good luck on your photography journey - when you're just starting sometimes things can get a bit overwhelming but stick at it. Everyone starts to click eventually :)
Thank you so much i really appreciate that! It is definitely a lot to take in but thats what i like about your videos, you make them very easy to comprehend. Once again thank you! @@TheLucyMartin
Hi, I was wondering if you could help. I've been trying the automask brush since yesterday, trying to get it to select just the skin of my subject. However no matter what I do it just doesnt seem to work. It will just select everything under the brush regardless. I tried using the range option to see if I could get to cooperate that way. It kind of does kind of doesnt. I'll still have to manually brush over the skin, and then it'll go "welp forget this, I'm out!" And start masking colours that are nowhere near the skin tone (I.e. everything). It's been driving me nuts. And whenever I search to see what's going on, all I get is people saying "oh just press the automask toggle and you're done". But it doesn't seem to be working for me.
Thanks, Lucy, for this. NOT a criticism or useless nitpick here, but I was wondering if in this photo, would your advice be to also whiten the left corner of your left eye a bit?
Great tutorial! Elegance in simplicity and gave me some new things to try that will save time! You have just gotten a new follower! Thank you for great content. Well done!
Wonderful video! I am learning so much from your Light room videos. I could use a video on the keystroke shortcuts and what they do, such as the H and O keys.
@@TheLucyMartin Hi Lucy. Thanks for such a quick response to my comment regarding key shortcuts. I just had a quick look at the summaries for each of the videos in the beginner Lightroom tutorial playlist and couldn't see exactly which of the videos contains the shortcuts, what they mean and how to use them. Could you 'point me to the right video'? By the way, I will watch all these videos. Jean Doucet
@@Acadien56 Hey Jean! Sorry about that, I was on my phone before or I would have linked you then. Here it is! ruclips.net/video/VjkV_aV2mOc/видео.html Has lots of shortcut options and shows how to use them! Hope it helps :)
Thank you Lucy, Could you also do a video on portraits where the subject always photographs red. My family always looks super red in every photo and so I need to fix every single picture for that. What is the best way for me to do that. thanks so much!!!
Dope video Lucy! Always enjoy watching your videos because it helps me remember the basics (since I looove to shoot without paying too much attention sometimes). Also what’s your favorite starter Pokémon?
So happy I found your channel, great explanations, makes sense, no ridiculous male ego feeding here, thank god, anyway, I appreciate what you are doing, and am learning a lot. Hoping more photographers and creatives find your channel ... focused and smart videos, yet funny without, again the ego. Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Lucy! Question - for the eye retouch part, why didn't you do Exposure, Clarity, and Blacks adjustment with one brush? Just wondering your reasons behind two separate brushes.
HEY - so I actually meant to mention this in the video and now I just re-watched it and realized I didn't and it was kind of important. I actually picked a photo that was slightly soft to use in the edit - I wanted to show that you could still save a soft portrait if you had to. Obviously you always want to aim to get the focus perfect in camera, but yeah I though it'd be interesting to show fixing that element. SORRY I totally forgot to mention that in the actual video, but hopefully this gives some context 😬
The idea you gave is important scaling ( - +) depends diffrently on every photo
Nice save Lucy :)
Hi! This was definitely useful! I loved the simple edit style and the way you explained it!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Mam U Look Like Ygritte From Game Of Thrones
Yeh I definitely understood the context of your video. Thanks
Auto mask smoothing trick just blew my mind..... 0_0!!
Legit one of my FAV tricks in Lr 😎
Bret Culpepper SAAME!
Absolutely...I just moved to Lightroom/Photoshop about 8 months ago (after many years of Paintshop Pro) and this is the first video that called out auto mask...game changer. Thanks Lucy!
simple short videos , concrete steps, quick edit - and that's why I like you! these are all the things that make me return to you for more tips
Thanks so much Natalia, you made me smile. This is exactly what I try to do so it makes me happy to hear that ☺️
I am new to Lightroom and have watched a ton of videos. You are, by far, the best at tutorials. I love the way you talk through each step and make it so that it is easy to follow along with what you are doing. I also love that you don't over process images. Truer to life! Be safe and healthy Lucy. Btw...love your name too!
I’ve been smoothing the long way, thanks for teaching me the right way
Dude, you're sooooo good at tutorials!!!!!
Dude, thanks! You’re so good at videos, reviews, tutorials... and most importantly having WAY TOO MANY BAGS ☺️
@@TheLucyMartin HAHA! Yes, I'm a camera bag junkie...don't look at me I'm a monster!
Lucy, your editing videos are all very well done. My wife (also a photographer) and I find them very helpful. Thank you.
In your last video on the XT3 (which I own and find excellent), you asked for recommendations on whether you should do more gear reviews. Someone last week commented that there are already a ton of gear reviewers on RUclips, hinting that you should stay in your niche. I both agree and disagree with that. First, you have an excellent set of Lightroom videos (please keep them coming!), and I am looking forward to when you start doing Photoshop as well. However, I sometimes worry you may eventually run out of "editing" material for new videos.
To negate that potential problem, you may want to start doing more equipment reviews to broaden out your channel and content. My only concrete suggestion is to do reviews on items you truly love (or perhaps really dislike, but this requires care). Your current work is very genuine, that's why people like it. You need to keep that. Best Regards, Tim
Hi Tim, thanks so much for your thoughts on this. I sometimes get a little overwhelmed with all the potential ways to go with this channel, and I agree with you that I don't want to get sort of stuck doing just one thing and basically run out of ideas. I really appreciate your insight on the review videos, because I do think it's a space where really well-thought out honest reviews would be helpful for people. As you mentioned, I think it's going to be about finding a balance as I go forward. I would really like to expand the channel and topics in terms of material.
I'm thinking mixing in reviews, tutorials, and perhaps some more business focused videos to really round of the channel. We'll see how it goes!
Thanks for the insight and the great thoughts on taking the channel forward, I really does help 😊
Great tutorial, simple solid workflow but for the love of God, use an image that the eyes and lips are in focus. Not the hair sticking out to the side 😬🤘🏻
i really enjoy watching your tutorial videos even when they are about something i already know.
because you know what you are talking about, your vids are straight to the point, and your voice is pleasant. thank you very much.
Thanks for the kind words Deniz! I always try to keep everything to the point, glad you like them :)
THE LAST PART, GOLD!!! THANKS
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Spicy thumbnail Lucy! Great video. I find that if you sharpen the hair, just slightly, it frames the face nicely too. Depends on the image, obviously works best on long hair and I usually do the sharpening via high pass in photoshop.
Thanks Josh! Always nice to get a good thumbnail 🤓 I totally agree on sharpening up the shot, adds a lot of depth and texture to the image 👌
I'm a beginner...I've been using the brush to individually go over all the exposed skin to soften. I've looked up tutorials in the past to see how the heck I can make this easier.
...never once has anyone mentioned the auto mask. I feel like such a moron putting SO MUCH effort in when that was there.
Haven't had time to try it, but I will as soon as I get home. Thank you so much for bringing that option up!!
that auto mask trick is amazing !!!
I love it, I didn't know about the brush-auto mask trick but will use it for sure now, it saves time for sure. Great tutorial!
Thanks Roxana! I love that little trick 🤓
I just started serious working with Lightroom and was looking just for something just like this. I've made huge step thanks to you! Thanks a lot! 😁
Great video! You’re my favorite LR expert and I love your teaching style 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
wow your lighting is amazing for this video
thanks for the tips! Love the tip about selecting the entire skin area with that shortcut trick!
Literally one of my favourite tricks :)
@@TheLucyMartin I love watching your channel grow. I think you are going to be very successful on RUclips. Looking forward to the next video!
Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much! Just completed the editing of a portrait of my children for their Grandmother. :)
Aw that’s so cute! Glad this could help ☺️
Auto masking function is awesome. ALso liked how careful you are about the eyes.
Most excellent video, thanks again! As for the "softness" of your image, no worries here as I choose to focus on the intent of the tutorial :) and the satisfaction of my learning curve
Thanks so much Zach. I feel super silly that I didn’t mention why I picked a bit of soft photo in the video but hopefully people will understand. Thanks for the nice comment about it ☺️
Thanks Lucy for this tutorial, a nice way to retouch with lightroom, very helpful !
Thanks for the kind word Olivier :)
I love it how you said 'trust me' and 'peace out' 😊
Excellent, yet simple hints for portraits. Now to remember these the next time I edit a portrait! Hopefully I will.
Wow! You are a wonderful teacher! Thank you for sharing your Master Class with the community LR users trying to figure it out. Looking forward to more Master Class time with you!
Thank you for the tutorial 😀😀
Another Great Tutorial.
Epic portraits are the best 🔥
Keep up the great videos 👍
wooo
You deserve so many more views. I've never come across someone who manages to make editing so simple, and you explain it perfectly in just a couple of minutes. Truly impressive. I've watched all for your lightroom videos and you have helped me improve an insane amount. Thank you for these videos!
Fantastic video Lucy!! I especially love the tip about the skin softening with the largest brush! You're very much helping my edits, and helping me to look better as a Tog. Cheers!
Thank you so much for the tips. I gotta work pretty much on this, but I already achieved great improvements. I love how you worked on the eyes!!!
Great skin softening tip Ms. Lucy! It really does save a lot of time!
Great tips Lucy! Can you do another tutorial if we want ghost skin like yours? Thanks 🤗
LAWL okay, here's the super secret tip. Live in a super cold area, hate the cold, stay inside. Never see the light of day or the sun. Become a vampire :)
Very nice tutorial i appreciate how straightforward you are. The photo is beautiful, great job editing it!
Love your vids! Simple and easy to understand!
That's the goal. Thanks for watching Matthew :)
thanks for sharing the video, specially the masking thing for skin was such an amazing tip !! thanks
Thanks for taking us back to Lightroom portrait ediiting basics! Quick Question: When or if do you hit the Auto Tone button? I find myself using that as a starting point..is that good or bad? Keep up the great work! HG
These were awesome tips! I always struggle with portraits - thank you!
Another great video, Lucy. I watch a tonne of videos on similar subjects on RUclips but I'm always kinda surprised just how much more new stuff I learn from yours. 👌
That made me smile! I always try to add something new that could help everyone. Thanks so much for watching :)
Wowowo thanks! Everything i need is explained in one video 😊
Huge thanks for this! Definitely will be adopting this process going forward
This is when you immediately tap on the video - thumbnail ❤️. Quality content.
Thanks so much Shafat! I'm trying to set up my thumbnail game :)
@@TheLucyMartin good going. I really enjoy your Lightroom tutorials ❤️
Your videos are amazing! I have learned so much about editing in Lightroom thanks to you. Cant wait to watch the next one!
Hello beautiful Lucy. I really like your tutorials , simple and to the point.Keep it up....really like that softening technique..I don't PS that often.Most of my workflow is done in LR. Looking forward to the next one.
Thank you!
Awesome video, thank you xx
9 minutes of tricks, tips and awesomeness :)... loved it!
Thanks a lot!
Learned something new today, thanks so much! You’re a natural beauty even without enhancements. Subscribed!
This was very helpful. Definitely needed the help with skin tones.
thanks for the tips.
Great in-depth review, thanks.
Love your videos!
Thank you, Lucy...........you cram a lot of teaching into a short video!
As always great video! 🙌🏼
Thanks for the 🙌
I learned a lot. Thank you Lucy. 👍😊
Thanks for the tips - I've been working my way through your backlog of tutorials - So good. Thanks for all the knowledge :)
Thanks for checking out the videos and supporting the channel! Means a lot to me ☺️
thanks i am learning a lot
Well done Lucy, another great tutorial! Thanks! didn't know about the auto mask. Would love to see how you use the range mask otherwise (if you use it). That seems like a very great tool too.
Killer tips. So helpful. Lightroom for the win!
Lightroom is so awesome 😎
Amazing vid! All you vids are super helpful. Just starting photography and you have been my number one goto for edits. Thank you and keep it up!!
That makes me super happy to hear! Good luck on your photography journey - when you're just starting sometimes things can get a bit overwhelming but stick at it. Everyone starts to click eventually :)
Thank you so much i really appreciate that! It is definitely a lot to take in but thats what i like about your videos, you make them very easy to comprehend. Once again thank you! @@TheLucyMartin
I can’t believe that I just found your videos! You are great! Thanks you. I just subbed! Keep it going Lucy!
Fantastic tips Lucy! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching! 😊
Never knew about the auto-mask that is really neat. Always learning something new from your videos good stuff!
I am loving your videos. Great Job very easy to learn and short!! Oh yea you have very beautiful eyes!
I LOVE that masking trick!
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Thanks so much for this, picked up a few new techniques 😘
Great tips Lucy!
Thanks Dilum :)
So awesome!
Excellent video - I can use many of these techniques...
Cheers Lucy. I appreciate the tips.... thanks!
Thanks so much Danny ☺️
Awesome toturial, Love from IRAN
Another fantastic video! Keep the content coming.
You convince me with this video at the end to suscribe when you said ¿Why you don’t suscribe? (Lolz) I just did it.
Thanks for this very helpful info.
Such a good video!
Love it! Keep them coming!
Will do!
Great tips, many thanks!
Thanks for watching Gino :)
Liked and subscribed. But very good presentation explained in a beautiful manner. Good job
thank you
thank you for the tips... Greetings from Costa Rica 👍🏻
a huge thanks lucy from canggu bali
Hi, I was wondering if you could help.
I've been trying the automask brush since yesterday, trying to get it to select just the skin of my subject.
However no matter what I do it just doesnt seem to work. It will just select everything under the brush regardless. I tried using the range option to see if I could get to cooperate that way. It kind of does kind of doesnt.
I'll still have to manually brush over the skin, and then it'll go "welp forget this, I'm out!" And start masking colours that are nowhere near the skin tone (I.e. everything).
It's been driving me nuts. And whenever I search to see what's going on, all I get is people saying "oh just press the automask toggle and you're done". But it doesn't seem to be working for me.
Ty
Thanks, Lucy, for this. NOT a criticism or useless nitpick here, but I was wondering if in this photo, would your advice be to also whiten the left corner of your left eye a bit?
Very good tutorial. thanks:)
I love your videos im late to your channel you really helped me out. And i love your usage of the word "Hella" thats bay area slang 💯💯
Great, this channel is just what I need!
Great tutorial! Elegance in simplicity and gave me some new things to try that will save time!
You have just gotten a new follower! Thank you for great content. Well done!
Thankyou friend
So amazing thank you so much ❤️
Great Video!
Ure a pro Luzy! thank you !!!
Wonderful video! I am learning so much from your Light room videos. I could use a video on the keystroke shortcuts and what they do, such as the H and O keys.
Guess what! I actually have a video on Lightroom key board shortcuts 🤓 Should be in my beginner Lightroom tutorial playlist
@@TheLucyMartin Hi Lucy. Thanks for such a quick response to my comment regarding key shortcuts. I just had a quick look at the summaries for each of the videos in the beginner Lightroom tutorial playlist and couldn't see exactly which of the videos contains the shortcuts, what they mean and how to use them. Could you 'point me to the right video'? By the way, I will watch all these videos.
Jean Doucet
@@Acadien56 Hey Jean! Sorry about that, I was on my phone before or I would have linked you then. Here it is! ruclips.net/video/VjkV_aV2mOc/видео.html
Has lots of shortcut options and shows how to use them! Hope it helps :)
Hey beautiful Lucy, thanks for the tips.
Thank you Lucy, Could you also do a video on portraits where the subject always photographs red. My family always looks super red in every photo and so I need to fix every single picture for that. What is the best way for me to do that. thanks so much!!!
So very helpful, awesome tips and thank you so much... new subscriber :)
Dope video Lucy! Always enjoy watching your videos because it helps me remember the basics (since I looove to shoot without paying too much attention sometimes). Also what’s your favorite starter Pokémon?
Nice edit and Nicest editor
Nice tutorial
So happy I found your channel, great explanations, makes sense, no ridiculous male ego feeding here, thank god, anyway, I appreciate what you are doing, and am learning a lot. Hoping more photographers and creatives find your channel ... focused and smart videos, yet funny without, again the ego. Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Lucy! Question - for the eye retouch part, why didn't you do Exposure, Clarity, and Blacks adjustment with one brush? Just wondering your reasons behind two separate brushes.