Spring Portrait Editing I: The Develop Module
Summary
If you’ve got someone like your wife, sister, mom, or a friend around, all you need to do is to head out to your garden or behind your house and find your local spring flowers or a tree that’s in bloom. You can decrease the Shadows and Black Point settings a bit to keep the flood of brightness from producing a flat and foggy face. Add a couple of points to Exposure and then increase the Gradient Width so that the brightened area will naturally blend with its surroundings. For our sample photograph, we can slightly shift the Shadows setting; if you’d like to experiment, feel free to work with the other two circles (Lights and Master) as well. The grass is green, the flowers are vibrant, and the people are full of energy, and all of this can be marvelously combined into a single photo.