How to Edit Portraits in Lightroom

It used to be that Photoshop was the place to go if you wanted to edit portraits, but in recent iterations, Lightroom has implemented some powerful tools that make it easier to edit your images without leaving the application. This great video tutorial will show you how to use those new tools for editing portrait photos.

Coming to you from Anthony Morganti, this excellent video tutorial will show you the ins and outs of editing a portrait in Lightroom. Of course, Photoshop remains the most powerful program for this sort of work, so if you have an involved edit, that is the place to be. That being said, Lightroom has come quite a long way in the last few years, and if you are working on a large batch of images that just need basic adjustments or just need to do some quick tweaking, it can actually be more efficient than heading over to Lightroom. In particular, the new masking tools are remarkably impressive, both in their precision and efficiency. If you have not tried them out yet, definitely take an hour or so to explore them, as you'll probably become quite fond of them. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Morganti.

Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.