Lightroom 2 Video Tutorial - Soften Skin Brush

Aug 06 2008

Soften Skin Brush – Lightroom Video Tutorial

Published by Yanik at 7:34 am under Lightroom Tutorials,TUTORIALS,Video Tutorials

Here’s another Adobe Lightroom 2 video tutorial. In my first Lightroom video tutorial, I mentioned what I thought were all the options for the new adjustment brush. But thanks to a Yanik’s Photo School reader, Rickey Lane, I learned that the soon to be famous adjustmenet brush has a hidden feature. And a pretty amazing one to boot! Just another reason not to go back into Photshop™ and use Neat Image or Noise Ninja to soften the skin up. Yeah, you guessed it, the hidden feature is called “soften skin”. It,s actually a combination of negative clarity and positive sharpening. It works wonders! Again, what’s amazing is that it’s localised and it’s non destructive. WOW!

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Here are a few books on Lightroom 2 that might come in handy:

Inside Lightroom 2
Lightroom 2 for Digital Photographers
Lightroom 2: Classroom in a Book

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11 responses so far

11 Responses to “Soften Skin Brush – Lightroom Video Tutorial”

# Geoffon 08 Aug 2008 at 9:37 pm

You mentioned that you cannot shift-click more than one of the seven effects (such as when you choose the “Soften Skin” effect preset). However, if you click the little “Show Effect Sliders” switch to the right of the effect (i.e. Exposure, which is the default), you can change all the sliders that you want.
# Luis Blancoon 17 Aug 2008 at 6:40 am

Excellent tutorial.

Thank you for sharing your knowledges.

Thanks from Spain.

Luis Blanco
# Jenson 17 Sep 2008 at 11:28 am

simple and great!

thanks for sharing this!

jens
# harryon 30 Oct 2008 at 8:52 am

very great tutorial!

thanks!
# joseon 14 Nov 2008 at 8:54 am

Great tutorial, thanks for sharing it.
# Alisaon 09 Dec 2008 at 6:36 pm

Awesome!!!!!! I so love lightroom. Thanks for sharing
# Bethon 11 Dec 2008 at 10:07 am

Very helpful. Video (instead of text) is a great way to learn the brush tool. Thanks for taking the time to create it!
# hectoron 16 Apr 2009 at 11:07 pm

friend i try to use this tecnique but the soft skin didnt appear how can i activate?
thanks
# Buckon 05 Sep 2009 at 10:45 am

I downloaded the trial version 2.4 and to my surprise the Skin Softner is not there as detailed in this tutorial. If I knew the setting I guess I could make it a Preset. However, just wondering why it isn’t present?? Maybe because it is a trial version???
Thanks.
# GrumZon 24 Dec 2009 at 12:38 pm

For those who doesn’t find this option like me, after a quick search on the net, I find that it’s just a brush preset with a clarity value of -100 and a sharpening value of +25.

Like Geoff said earlier, just click the little “Show Effect Sliders” switch to the right to set these values, then create a new brush preset with those values called “soften skin”, and you got it !

Thanks for the tips !
# ignacioon 28 Sep 2010 at 5:29 pm

THANK YOU THANK YOU
you dont know how I appreciate this