Newborn Photography 101: Capture Their First Moments
Editing: Background, Shapes and Skin Tones 1
A course by Lidi Lima-Conlon , Newborn Photographer
About the video: Editing: Background, Shapes and Skin Tones 1
Overview
“Here, I will teach you how to start editing your images. First by working on the background and shapes. ”
In this video lesson Lidi Lima-Conlon addresses the topic: Editing: Background, Shapes and Skin Tones 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Newborn Photography 101: Capture Their First Moments. Discover how to style and shoot a baby’s first photo session and learn how to edit the images in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we are going to start our editing process with background shapes, and skin tones. Let's get started. So we have our nine shots selected and open in Camera Raw. For the sake of the course, I'm going to select the most complicated one. Just so we can see my whole process and you don't need to watch me editing nine images all the same. I'm going to drag that image into Photoshop. This image is going to open in Camera Raw. This is where I start my editing. I really recommend using raw files instead of JPEGs. When you use raw files, you have a lot more information in the file to ...”
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Course summary for: Newborn Photography 101: Capture Their First Moments
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Portrait Photography

Lidi Lima-Conlon
A course by Lidi Lima-Conlon
Lidi Lima-Conlon is a Brazilian-born photographer living in Ireland. During her early work as a TV journalist, she became fascinated by the visual aspects of her work and storytelling through images. Shortly after moving to Ireland from her home country in 2008, she took a photography course that served as the springboard for her current career. She began photographing everything from weddings and events, to landscapes but soon realized her talents lay in photographing families and babies.
Since then Lidi has established her own studio, Newborns by Lidi. At the Irish Professional Photographer & Videographer of the Year Awards in 2021, Lidi won both the Chairman’s Award and the Newborn Photographer of the Year title. She also gives mentoring sessions and is an ambassador for DreambooksPro.
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