Sarah Edmunds - Natalia Black & White Portrait

This video dives into the process of retouching a portrait image with the intention of creating a monochrome portrait, starting from the raw file and moving through various stages of enhancement in Lightroom and Photoshop. Sarah shares her process on adjusting exposure, color temperature, and other settings to improve the raw image, ensuring to maintain as much detail as possible. Techniques like brushing on clarity, managing skin tones, and applying localised adjustments are thoroughly discussed. The session also covers advanced retouching techniques in Photoshop, such as healing, cloning, and painting, to fine-tune the image. Special attention is given to maintaining natural skin texture and the ethical aspects of retouching. Other topics include using masks, layers, and blending modes for more precise edits, and the process ends with transforming the image into black and white, adding final touches that include a vignette and grain effect.

01:39 Raw adjustments in Lightroom

12:20 Removing lint from black clothes

19:03 Deciding on the editing direction - Colour or Black and White?

19:39 Skin Retouch

32:41 Dodge and burn to shape and contour

41:25 AI Sculpt, eyes and make-up

49:19 Adding the Black and White profile

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