SKIN SOFTENING IN LIGHTROOM

I am trying to soften skin on a photo and it is turning the skin red (like a light sunburn)....what can i do to fix this?

I Would either add an adjustment brush over the skin area and then minus clarity, which will soften skin.
or you could try going to HSL, click the little button (forget what it's called!), hover the mouse over the red area and gently lower it by scrolling on the mouse.
the downside to this method is it will lower saturation if red across the picture.
maybe there are other ways, I will watch his post with interest. I hope Adobe add the facility to alter colour in a discrete area (like in Capture One Pro 8) in LR6.

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Reinstalling The Skin Soften Adjustment Brush in Lightroom 3.5

Last week I accidentally deleted the "Skin Soften" adjustment brush in Lightroom 3.3. I upgraded to Lightroom 3.5 hoping it would reinstall the adjustment brush, but no such luck. I am having trouble locating information and understanding how to reinstall this brush. If anyone could help me do this, it would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Go to Preferences, Presets Tab, and click "Restore Local Adjustment Presets".
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Converting to jpeg in CS2 after skin softening in LR2.4

I have not used Adjustment Brushes much, so I do not know if this is a known problem. Running with XP. I did a skin softening, cropped and exported as a tiff. Went to CS2, opened file, did some acne removal, and went to save as a jpeg to send to lab. It will not save, saying "could not complete your request because of a program error." At first I thought it was a computer problem, since I am having a little "old computer" trouble. I shut down, restarted everything, re-exported the file from LR, and same problem. So I exported a jpeg instead, and no problem saving it in CS after acne removal. I tried to search the forum, but the search is not very good.

It's an issue that's been around for quite some time. Exporting as JPEG and possibly PSD are the workarounds.
I can't recall the exact cause of the problem, but lies with Photoshop CS2 rather than Lightroom. Therefore, since CS2 is no longer current/supported it's highly unlikely that a fix will be released.

Can not find the Skin Soften option with the adjustment brush 2.0

When I first installed 2.0 I had an option for skin softening with the adjustment brush. Now it's gone. Does everyone using Lightroom 2.0 have skin soften with the adjustment brush?

In Develop press K for Adjustment Brush (or click the Brush Icon). The it appears in the drop down menu next to Effect: that defaults to Exposure and has a small set of up and down arrows to the right of it. Soften Skin is last after a divider. It also appears (????) there for Graduated Filter (M).
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Skin Softening Plug in

I'm using CS4 Extended. I'm now getting busy enough with my photography on the side that softening the skin manually through layers is becoming rather time consuming.
I'm curious if there is some kind of plug in that is able to speed up productivity on skin softening.
Any advice on time management as relates to post processing of skin?
Thanks,
Robert

You might want to look at third-party plug-ins like Portraiture by Imagenomics; Digital GEM Airbrush Professional by Kodak; SkinTune by PhotoTune; etc.
Just Google Photoshop plug-in skin smooth.
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LR 3.6 Skin Softener

I have that feature on my Macbook Pro. However, on my desktop MacPro I don't see that even though I'm on the same version. What gives? Any ideas? I have the Iris adjustment, I have the teeth whitening, just not the skin softener....
I'm running (where the option is missing) MacPro Intel, 8TB across four drives if that helps. I've attached a screenshot with the brush tool pulled down. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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J

Its a preset that you have either recorded over, has been deleted or has just faded out of clarity ( pun intended)
These are the paramaters for the Soften Skin,
Soften Skin
exposure : 0.00
brightness : 0
contrast : 0
saturation : 0
clarity : -100
sharpness : 25
colour X ( ie no colour)
If as R Owens says does not work for you, simply set these parameters and then save as a new preset
I also have
Soften Skin (low)
exposure : 0.00
brightness : 0
contrast : 0
saturation : 0
clarity : -50
sharpness : 0
colour X ( ie no colour)
Whether this is mine adapted preset or a softer option I can't remember. I do know that the -100 clarity is far too excessive for my liking.
Hope his resetting or my parameters above can help you.
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No pop-up for skin softening or teeth whitening etc.

When I go to the adjustment brush, the pop-ups for skin softening and teeth whitening do not pop-up. How can I get these to show up on my screen?

Under LR Preferences, Presets, click on the Resore Local Adjustment Presets.

Advanced Skin Softening

I am using Elements 10. I have a portrait photo loaded in the editor. I have used Control J to duplicate the background into Layer 1. I used the filter Guassian Blur to Blur the duplicate Layer. I then used the Alt and clicked on Add Layer to ad a black layer mask. I set my foreground to white. However, when I use the Brush(B) to paint over the face & skin of the portrait, it does not apply white to mask and let the blur show through on the image? What have I done wrong?

Why not just click on the Add Layer Mask button? And when you have created the mask, make sure that it is the mask that is selected in the layer panel, and not the image, before painting in white. The following is from PSE12, but 10 should be similar. Note the border around the mask thumbnail showing that it is selected.
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Adjustment Brushes Lightroom 5 Not working

i have been using Lightroom 5 for months but suddenly my adjustment brushes aren't working at all.
ive tried quitting and relaunching and restarting the computer. i have done the recent update and am wondering if it is since then. i use a Mac. any advice on what to try??

hi,
there is actually no error message or anything to show you. i can still brush the tool over etc...it just doesn't apply anything ie; skin softening or iris enhance. It even still gives me the pin spot for where ive used it. I can move all the sliders etc...just no changes to the image

How do I restore Lightroom 3 to its default settings?

I have recently somehow removed the skin softening effect in Lightroom and am unable to get it back. I would like to restore Lightroom to its default settings and recover this feature. I tried uninstalling the software and then reinstalling however, that did not fix the problem. I appreciate any help that can be provided.
Thank you in advance for your time!

Edit the Preferences>Presets Tab>Click on "Restore Local Adjustment Presets".

Request better support skin tone evaluation/measurement

Hello. I am writing this with the intention that it will be read by the folks at Adobe that are involved in the development of Lightroom. I'm pretty new to this forum, however, and I'm a little confused about whether this feature requests thread actually goes to the Adobe Lightroom team, considering that it is in a user-to-user forum. If there is a better avenue to get my feature request to Adobe, I would appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction.
Before I get into my request, I also want to mention that I did my due diligence and searched this thread to make sure this has not been requested before.
I am submitting this request because I do not see any useful way to measure or evaluate skin tone in Lightroom while adjusting white balance (or after adjusting white balance, for that matter). I can do a mouse-over to read RGB values, but I am not aware of any useful way to use RGB values for evaluating skin tones.
I just watched the latest George Jardine video, in which he recommends to use a calibrated monitor and move the Develop controls back and forth until your eye tells you it's correctly adjusted. I enjoyed this video, and I have found that this generally works well for me for tone balance, but I believe an additional tool for measuring or evaluating skin tones would benefit the Lightroom workflow as I will explain below.
I believe that many serious photographers, pro and amateur alike, routinely use the eyedropper in Photoshop for reading CMYK values to confirm the skin tones in their work. Even if they feel like they can usually eyeball pretty well, they find they get greater consistency when they use the eyedropper.
Now I'm not saying that Lightroom necessarily needs CMYK support. Photoshop Elements, for example has a skin tone adjustment even though it doesn't have CMYK support. And I'm also not suggesting that Lightroom necessarily needs skin tone sliders like Photoshop Elements. I'm just suggesting that the Lightroom workflow would benefit from some kind of tool for evaluating skin tone while or after adjustments are being made in the Develop Module. I would like to leave it up to Lightroom to decide exactly how to implement this.
The only way I currently see to do adjust while measuring skin tones is to open the file in Photoshop, make adjustments, and save. Even if there is a way to do this with ACR and have the adjustments saved in the sidecar or in the DNG, it still seems like a time-comsuming and unnecessary step for my workflow.
Now this request is predicated on the assumption that evaluting skin tone is fundamental enough for a basic workflow that it should be included in Lightroom. In my opinion it is, and that is why I am making this feature request. I'm sure that some might not need it for their workflow, but it seems to me that this would be a valuable feature to a great many Lightroom users.
Thanks for lending your ear, Adobe. I look forward to ALL your future versions of Lightroom, and I hope that skin tone evaluation/measurement is included in one of them.
Regards,
Mike

Your post seems to assume that Lightroom is a tool for travel/landscape photography, and other types of photography (e.g., portrait/fashion) should be supported by a "specialized add-on module". I have to disagree with you on that point. Considering many of the examples on the Lightroom marketing are fashion shoots, I would think that they considers portrait/fashion photographers to be an important part of their target audience. They are not a fringe group of specialists.
I'm sure that portrait/fashion photographers would feel the same way about a Lightroom capability that primarily benefits the workflow of a travel/landscape photographer, i.e., when I do do some landscape work, I just edit in Photoshop. But you wouldn't agree to that, would you?
Skin tone measurement can be an incredibly easy tool to implement. It can be something as simple as showing the CMY values alongside the RGB values during a mouseover. Keep in mind, I'm talking about CMY not CMYK, so there should be no need to worry about what ICC profile to use. RGB to CMY is a straightforward transformation. It's embarassingly simple.
There are other ways Adobe can implement skin tone management that would be more powerful but a little more complicated. Those would be great too.
Anyway, thanks for the link to the Adobe feature request page! I will use it.
Regards,
Mike

Achieving brownish skin tones

I'm seeing this browner skin tones "look" a lot in fashion photography, almost like an instant tan that works for light and not so light caucasian skin tones. So far I am flumoxed (sp?) as to how to create this look. Someone suggested warming up the white balance, then backing off saturation and luminance on the orange (-15 and -20 respectively), but I'm wondering whether anyone knows of presets and/or other techniques that one can implement in LR for batch-processing a large set of photos.

I believe the correct spelling is "flummoxed". Anyway, I change skin colour in Lightroom often by using the colour brush and the relevant intensity slider and play with both until I get it the way I want. The problem is you need a mask so as not to get any surprises in the rest of the image. This means batch processing isn't your ally. There are programs out there that specialize in one-click portrait skin adjustments and they do a pretty good job but even so, you'll have to verify each image which defeats the pupose. Good luck.
Brian

How do I go back and re edit a document that I've already exported?

It will not allow me to use any of the basic tools such as the blemish tool, skin softening tool, etc....

Sounds like you're pretty new to Lightroom. Rather than open a new thread for each basic question, I think you need to do some reading. I suggest:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom/lightroom_for_beginners
http://www.lightroomqueen.com/free-downloads/quickstart/lr5/
You could even try the Lightroom help.

Are laggy adjustments/rendering camera specific?

The thread on thumbnails got me to thinking, some people report snappy adjustments, quick rendering and great performance with A3. Others (like myself) experience slowdowns on some photos after applying several layers of edits to a photo ("processing" thumbnails, slow rendering of adjustment changes etc.)
Just a few things that tend to take a long time to render an updated screen view for me (i.e. I get a low quality jaggy preview and it takes up to 20 seconds to "sharpen up" and show the changes:
. ANY changes to the Raw Fine Tuning brick, especially in 100% view
. some brushes take a long time to render changes (skin soften and sharpening to name a couple) again, worse in 100% view
. noise reduction (worse in 100%)
. Edge Sharpening (worse in 100%)
. rendering a proper image after zooming 100% into a photo after it's been adjusted moderately with the above adjustments, or cropped/straightened. Also slow to render if scrolling around in 100% view.
Notice that the worst wait times tend to appear in 100% view, though zoomed out sometimes I still get the "loading" pinwheel. These are adjustments that I prefer (justifiably so) to do in 100% view but the lag is just terrible sometimes. Some photos are worse than others, and it tends to be worse as the adjustments pile up.
My equipment is listed in the sig, my MBPro tends to be a bit faster than the iMac. Before you ask, I've done all the standard performance enhancing things (previews settings, faces off, defrag etc etc etc).
I am using Canon 7D full size raw files (18mp, ~25MB files). A couple people in the other thread mentioned this sort of lackluster performance with their 7D files, and I've seen people with 5DMk2's complain as well. I wonder if Aperture has a hard time dealing with large raw files, specifically Canon raw files.
So informal poll, three part question:
(1) Are you experiencing slow downs in rendering of adjustments on your photos, especially at 100% view?
(2) What type of file from what camera are you using (i.e. large .jpg from Nikon D70, full size raw from Canon 1dMk4 etc)
(3) What is your computer set up?
I wonder if this is a trend, and am just curious to see if my wild theory has any merit.
I see no reason why my two machines run LR and PShop flawlessly and with instant graphical feedback of ALL adjustments, while A3 lags and chews on the adjustment for up to half a minute before showing me what my sharpening move did to the photo at 100%.
If it is some sort of trend, maybe it's fixable in a software update that might be forthcoming. I really, REALLY like Aperture 3, it's pretty much exactly what I want/need for a photo management/editing program (save for the lack of output sharpening, but that's another thread for another day :)) I just wish it was as snappy as the Adobe products with my 7D files.

I certainly think that the size of the file is a factor . My 5d MKII files (>20Mbyte) are slower than files from my S90 (around 10MByte ), but on my system configuration perfectly manageable and usable.
I think the file size, GPU memory/speed and memory in general are all factors that interact together to create what some see as lags and slow downs.
Sharpening and noise reduction is a fairly intensive algorithm to apply in real time ( I know, I have written code to do it in non real time and it's a lot of pixel sampling and comparing, computing ).
I have conducted extensive testing with Aperture 3.0 and for that matter Lightroom as well ( lot's of people point to LR as being much better and I'm fed up with the generalization ). The reality is, both programs struggle to keep up with the application of real time application of localized brush strokes with large files, especially when you have lots of adjustments applied. I have some interesting data comparing these things and might publish it one of these days.
I think Apple need to be realistic with minimum system requirements to run fully all of the features with programs like AP3. Sure, you can apply adjustments to a small JPEG when you only have 1GB of RAM of 128MB GPU RAM etc, but it's common sense that at some point when you files are 20, 50, 100MB you are going have an issue when you are attempting to overlay in real time multiple computations to an image.
I also think Apple has not yet optimized the code in this area. I have carefully monitored the number of processor threads, memory usage and CPU cycles when some of these things are being applied and, while I am not privy at all to anything under the hood with Aperture, as a fairly seasoned software developer of real time automation software, I think they have some tweaking to do, that will make this better for more people across a range of hardware and image sizes. At least I hope so! It will be interesting to see what the next update brings.
AP3 is really a very, very powerful tool and I liken it to the first and early releases of Final Cut in the video world. I remember lots and lots people complaining about performance with Final Cut - mostly it was the system setup, limited resources in the machine and not yet knowing the best work flow. I see the same trend on some of these threads with AP3.
No doubt in my mind Apple could have done a much better job of quality control here and I fear they bowed to pressures to release something early. For some the out of the box experience has been good for others not so much. I have no doubt they will get it right, but it doesn't help people having issues at the moment.
Just my 2-cents.

The adjustment brush suddenly stopped working in Lr CC (among other things)

1. All of a sudden the adjustment brush stopped working in my Lr CC. The little buttons that you can click on to activate your adjustments are gone and when I open files where I have done adjustments they are still there but no "buttons" to click and consequently I can not make any changes or new adjustments. For example; in the image I have inserted I have made adjustments with a) Sharpness, b) Skin Softening and c) Iris Enhance and the adjustments are still there but no "buttons" any more and therefore I can´t change anything. I edited this image April 29 and 30 when Lr still worked fine. Today (and yesterday) things has really start spooking around with Lr.
2. After having saved an image in Ps CC as a psd-file going back to Lr CC for cropping Lr continuously reloads and resets all edits that I have done or are trying to do.
Everything has been working earlier but the past two days things like the above has stopped working.

Well, all problems regarding this are solved after having talked to Adobe's support. After having backed up my lrcat we deleted the Lightroom 6 plist, emptied the trash can and then restored Lightroom to its default values during the start-up process.

SKIN SOFTENING IN LIGHTROOM

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