SUMMARY
Gerard Needham presents a five-step Lightroom workflow designed to achieve cohesive and consistent portrait skin tones across an entire gallery. The process begins with syncing white balance, followed by tone and contrast adjustments, offering two distinct foundational looks. Needham addresses common greenish-orange casts in skin tones by adjusting HSL sliders and discusses the limitations of the point color tool for this purpose. The workflow also includes cropping decisions, composition fixes, and advanced masking techniques, particularly for vintage lenses, to enhance subject separation and image depth.
TAKEAWAYS
Sync white balance and manipulate tone for consistent portrait editing.
Adjust HSL sliders in Lightroom to correct greenish-orange skin casts.
Utilize masking techniques to enhance subject separation and background depth.
Needham's workflow aims for gallery-wide consistency in portraiture.