Photo Editing Techniques

How to Make Lightroom's Sky Mask Actually Look Real (And 3 More Masking Tricks Worth Stealing)
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How to Make Lightroom's Sky Mask Actually Look Real (And 3 More Masking Tricks Worth Stealing)

There is a specific kind of frustration that comes from watching Lightroom do something technically perfect and visually wrong. I ran into this constantly when I first started pulling my wedding work into a retouching workflow. The tool selects exactly what you asked for, the edge is razor-clean, and somehow the result looks worse than before you started. Too crisp. Too obvious. Like the software forgot that real light doesn’t have hard cutoffs.

Hair Retouching in Portrait Photography: My Step-by-Step Approach
Portrait Retouching

Hair Retouching in Portrait Photography: My Step-by-Step Approach

Hair Retouching in Portrait Photography: My Step-by-Step Approach Hair retouching intimidates a lot of my clients when they first come to me. I get it—it’s detailed work that can quickly look overdone if you’re not careful. But I promise you, once we break this down into manageable steps, you’ll find it’s one of the most rewarding parts of portrait editing. Let me walk you through exactly how I approach every hair retouching project.