AI-Powered Portrait Editing: Quick and Easy Tools in Lightroom Classic

1. Introduction: Welcome to my class. I'm Clara. And today, we're going to learn how to use Adobe rooms AI features to make your portrait editing faster and easier. By the end, you'll know how to easily enhance skin and eyes, adjust background, and use gradient masks combined with AI to add natural lighting effects around your portrait, all while saving time. Okay, let's jump right in. 2. Project: For the class project, your task is to apply the AI tools and techniques we've covered in this class. Get started, go to the class resources section and download one of my images. If you prefer, you can also use one of your own photos. All you will need to complete this project is light room classic. After importing the photos, begin by using the masking tools to target specific areas like the skin, eyes or hair. Work on adjusting the background using the select subject tool, and finally, experiment with the gradient mask combined with AI to add natural looking lighting effects. If your image has a lot of noise, remember to use the AID noise tool to clean it up. When you're finished, be sure to share your edited photo in the project section. This is a great way to receive feedback and connect with fellow students. Completing this project will help you get faster and more effective at editing portraits. If you have any questions or need help, don't hesitate to reach out to me. I'm here to guide you. 3. AI-Powered People Masking for Targeted Edits: The first lesson will explore AI powered people masking. This tool helps make your portrait edits quick and effective. At first, we need to open our photo in Lightroom in the Develop module. Once imported, we can look for the masking panel on the right. Click on Select People, and Light room will find faces in your photo. We can now create masks for different features. You'll see options for skin, eyes, lips, and hair. We can also choose between facial or body skin, and we'll start with that. Let's try to select facial skin. When it's selected, we can smooth it out, slide the texture and clarity down to soften the skin. It's really up to you how you want to edit. This video is not about editing itself, but about the AI powered features. I usually play not only with skin, but also with eyes, hair, and lips and other features. As the next step, I would enhance the eyes. So we select the mask for the eyes, and we can bump up the exposure and sharpness just a little. We can do more contrast in the eyes and put a little bit more white. And this will help the eyes stand out more. AI powered Pb masking tool is a great way to enhance your portraits easily and effectively. Let's move on to the next lesson. 4. AI Select Subject: Quick Background Adjustments: This lesson we'll use the Select Subject tool. This is perfect for changing up your background while keeping your subject sharp. We'll start by opening the photo in the Develop module. Again, we'll move to the masking panel on the right, and this time we choose Select Subject. Lightm will identify the main subject and create a mask around them. In most cases, masking works quite well, but not always. The good thing is you can also refine your mask by using the brush tool if needed. Just make sure everything looks seamless. To focus on the background, let's invert the mask and now we can adjust the background without touching the subject. I usually like to darken the background a little bit in all my portraits because it helps the subject to stand out. So what I do is that I move the exposure slider to the left to make it darker. You can also reduce the clarity to soften the background. But again, this is about your preferences and about your editing style. Feel free to change the background color. You can, for example, make it warmer or colder. In short, the select subject tool lets you quickly improve your portraits by adjusting the background while keeping the focus on your main subject. Let's head to the next lesson on AI noise reduction. 5. AI Noise Reduction: The next step, let's check out how to use the AI noise reduction tool, especially if the photo was taken in low light. I will use a different photo to show how the AI noise reduction works. This is a photo of my friend that was taken during the blue hour. The sun already set, so there was not a lot of light. You can see that the noise is quite visible here. So what we want to do is that we go to the detail panel and we will find the denoise slider here. This tool uses AI to reduce noise while keeping important details intact. Slide the denise control to the right. You can see that the noise is much less visible, but at the same time, the skin can start to look smoother. You can zoom in and make sure that the skin still looks natural. It's key to find the right balance. We want the skin to look great without losing the natural texture. This tool is really powerful and I love using it. On my Fuji camera, with ISO over 6,000, the noise is very visible. But this AI noise reduction tool was a real game changer. It really does a great job, even with extremely noisy pictures. So definitely give it a try. Remember, ANiseRduction is a fantastic feature to keep your images looking clean, especially in tricky lighting. And now let's wrap it up with our last lesson on creating natural lighting effects using gradient masks. 6. Gradient Mask with AI Refinement: Natural Lighting Effects: In our final lesson, we'll learn how to use gradient masks combined with AI to add beautiful lighting effects around our portrait. Start by opening your photo in the Develop module. Select the radial gradient tool from the masking options. Click and Drag to create a gradient around your subject. After you've set your gradient, let's refine it. Click on the mask thumb nail, and you will see that you can make adjustments to the mask. Choose select subjects to ensure the gradient only affects the background. Now, let's brighten the background a little or make it darker. Play with the exposure, highlights or shadows to make the subject stand out. You can also reduce the clarity to make the background softer. Try using the linear gradient to add side lighting effects too. Jack the gradient from one side and adjust the brightness and contrast sliders to make it pop. Combining gradient masks with AI tools lets you create stunning portraits that look like they were shot in perfect lighting, and using them is very easy. That's it for class on mastering portrait edits in light room. You now have the tools to make amazing edits using AI features. Thank you for joining and happy editing. Oh 7. Thank You for Watching: I hope you found this short class helpful and that you'll continue using the tools we've covered to make your editing work flow faster, smoother and more efficient. Thank you so much for watching, and don't forget to work on your class project and share it in the project section. Getting feedback from fellow students is a great way to learn even more and improve your skills. Thanks again for joining me and see you next time.