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Portrait Photography Post-production Class

(Adobe lightroom)

In the film era, photography placed great emphasis on the choice of film, because each brand and type of film has its own unique color rendering, so the colors produced by traditional film photography are more humane and have their own unique style. In the digital age, the color expression of cameras is relatively simple, so the personal style of the photos needs to be expressed in the color processing during post-production.

Photo post-production is usually based on the following three reasons:

  • Mix your favorite colors to express your personal style (Lightroom)

  • Correct problems that occur during shooting, such as color temperature/exposure/high contrast, or optimize the overall photo feel to highlight the subject or theme (Lightroom)

  • Retouch portraits to achieve perfect details and change the content of photos to create special effects (Photoshop)


Our Adobe Lightroom post-production class mainly allows students to understand how to use Lightroom's various adjustment tools to adjust the color of photos to create a better feel and atmosphere for the photos.

Teaching content includes:

  • The concept of operation as a photo organization tool and teach some tools to help organize photos

  • Principles and methods of color temperature adjustment

  • Understand the relationship and concepts of exposure / highlight / shadow / whites / blacks in Lightroom

  • How to use Clarity / texture / Dehaze / Vibrance / Saturation to adjust photos in portrait post-production

  • How HSL / Color tools can optimize every single color in a photo

  • The concept and usage principles of tone curve

  • The concept and usage principles of split toning

  • Calibration Concept and Usage Principles

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Correct color temperature and exposure

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Tone Curve before and after adjustment

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Split Toning Before and After Adjustment

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Use various tools in Lightroom to create photos that look more like film

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