Anatomy of a Lightroom Edit ...

Yesterday, Jessica, preset-creator-extraordinaire at One Willow, gave me a sneak peek of her new Lightroom brushes collection. I must admit, I don't often use brushes; I'm kinda sorta a lazy quick editor, especially with my own family pictures. Take, for example, the SOOC snapshot below of Littlest Dude. I snapped it quick and it's underexposed by about a stop.



My normal edit for this would be to add +1 exposure and maybe bump the vibrance a bit, which results in the edit below:



But, since I'm playing and experimenting with Jessica's new set, I went ahead and applied her new Everyday preset (which she's including with the brush collection - it's a great starting point!). That simple step (no adjustments) created the edit below:



Then I went ahead and locally applied the following brushes: skin smooth tones (to subtly remove skin blotchyness), skin soften (smooths lines), eye sparkle, eye white, eye define lashes, sharpen definition (to make face pop a bit),
and color enhance (just on the background).





I know I've said this before, but gosh I love Lightroom and One Willow. The End. :-)