Newborn Baby Lightroom Photo Editing
You can improve photo edit and transform your RAW or unedited images to make them look better and get that premium newborn baby tone in your photos by following step by step instructions given below. By following these editing settings you can learn about photo editing in lightroom mobile. And you can improve your editing skills. I will also provide attach before and after results below. When it comes to photo editing, In this photo editing tutorial I like to bring out the light, tonal curve and add saturation color tones to the photos. It almost gives your photos a professional look. These editing settings works for all types of newborn photography like baby photos, baby fashion pictures, newborn baby images, studio baby photography pictures, baby shoot photos, newborn baby photography images and many more. Never stop upgrading or upscaling your editing skills always focus on creativity, innovation, audience understanding, consistency and adaptability. By following these editing tutorials you can transform from beginner to premium look.
Photo editing can be very hard and complex, even there's no right or wrong way in how to do it. If we start editing in adobe lightroom mobile, we have so many different curves, tools, color mixes, aspects and settings almost giving us endless combinations we can create with. So, that can make it really hard but it can also make it fun and professional. In this tutorial i will try to make you all understand editing and gain some knowledge of color correcting. So welcome to this newborn photography lightroom photo editing tutorial.
How To Edit Newborn Photography in Lightroom
To achieve Newborn Photography looks to your photos, i will provide you all settings below step by step. Just follow all the steps properly and try to understand which editing tool is for what. Always remember that before getting into editing process selection of photos matter's a lot always select the prefect image. So Let's start editing now.
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Step 1: Settings for light adjustments of the photo
Let's start with light option in the edit tab of Lightroom which includes base lighting and tonal curve of the photo. Move your slider carefully and according to settings given below or else you can also take reference from picture attached below.
Exposure: -0.51 (by decreasing this it will give perfect look to your whole photo)
Contrast: +5 (increase contrast to give dark colours look)
Highlights: -83 (to darken the skin color tone to your subject in the baby photo)
Shadows: +51 (to brighten the subject a bit from the background)
Whites: -4 (whites to be decreased to achieve that dark white tone)
Blacks: -6 (to make your baby photo bright from the background)
Now Let's move to most important part of photo editing which is tonal curve adjustment (know more about tonal curve).
You can take reference from the picture attached below i have provide light setting and curve settings for white and blue curves.
Step 2: Settings for color adjustments
Now let's move to the interesting part of photo editing which is adjusting color of the photo. Here you can adjust temperature, tint, saturation, you color grade and also you can mix color of your photo. For Baby Photography look i have given the settings below.
Move to color option in the edit section and change these setting using the slider.
Temperature: +10 (increase temperature to get bit warmer tone to your photos)
Tint: +10 (by increasing tint it will give pinkish tone)
Vibrance: +19 (it will give punchier colours of your baby photo)
Saturation: -3 (by decreasing saturation it will look faded colours)
Take reference from this image for colour adjustments
In the photo to get that Newborn Baby Photography look color grading and color mix are important aspects so now go to color grading part which includes shadows, mid tones, highlights and global as shown in the image above and these are the settings for color grading and mix.
Color Grading Settings:
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Color Mix Settings:
Red
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: +13 (increase to give baby photography tone to your image)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Orange
Hue: -10 (decrease the value of orange to change to dark orange)
Saturation: -9 (by decreasing this it will compliment subject's colour tone with the newborn photography)
Luminance: +0
Yellow
Hue: -70 (to change the yellowish tone to newborn photography so that it will look good)
Saturation: -84 (it will give faded your yellow's of your photo)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Green
Hue: -35 (by decreasing this it will look green from light green)
Saturation: -78 (if there's any green things then it will desaturated your photo)
Luminance: +21 (by increasing this value it will give brighter look)
Teal
Hue: -30 (by decreasing this settings it look dark teal tone)
Saturation: -88 (decrease the value of teal colour to lighter shades which is not required for this tone)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Blue
Hue: -75 (This value will change dark blue tones into light blue tint)
Saturation: -80 (By decreasing saturation it will not give that blue impact to your photo)
Luminance: +46 (by increasing luminance it will give brighter to your photo)
Purple
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -70 (it will reduce purple in your photograph)
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Pink
Hue: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Saturation: -100
Luminance: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Step 3: Settings for Effects of your photo
Now move to Effects option in the edit section, by using this settings given above image, it will make your photo look crisp and high quality. This includes texture, clarity, vignette and grain.
Texture: +19 (by increasing this it will get a crisp HD look)
Clarity: +0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Dehaze: +14 (increase this value it will give faded studio soft look)
Vignette:-
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Grain:-
no changes needed to your photo for this edit
Step 4: Settings for Details
Sharpening
Amount: +17 (it will give crisp and sharp look)
Radius: +1.00
Detail: +25
Masking: 0 (no changes needed to your photo for this edit)
Noise
Noise Reduction: +15 (it will your whole photo a soft look)
Detail: +50
Contrast: +10 (It will give perfect tones to your colours in the photo)
Color Noise
Color Noise Reduction: +20 (it will boost your colours to look premium)
Detail: +60
Smoothness: +75
Optional Step 5: Optics
Turn on or Enable lens corrections to give the final touch to your photos but if you don't want you can skip this step.
By applying all these settings mentioned above you will achieve this look, you can see the final results below.
Preview of Newborn Photo Tone Lightroom Editing (Before and After)
Note (Changes to make) :
These editing settings are a great starting point to personalize the look further, consider making some adjustments to the following settings.
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Highlights
- Saturation
Most importantly before applying this edits please select a photo which should be an outdoor, nature, adventure, fashion or portrait photos. So, that this edit will look good on it.
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FAQs
Which type of photos will be good for Newborn Photography tone edit?
Answer: Photos like baby birthday photos, new born fashion, newborn photography photos. Before trying this edit please check the before and after result of the edit. Even you can know which type of photo to be used.
Can these settings be used on any photo editing software's?
Answer: We suggest to use Adobe Lightroom Mobile, Adobe Lightroom Desktop and Adobe Photoshop.
Does these settings works for video colour grading also?
Answer: No, These editing settings are only for photos not for video.
Does this edit works for indoor, studio, baby photography and newborn photos?
Answer: Yes, this edit is fully compatible for newborn photography photos, studio baby photos, indoor baby photos, baby fashion images but it will not work for street, night, adventure and urban images.
