Newborn editing

Hello! To all my photographer followers or photography lovers, this is a tip I learned from a webinar that I thought you might like:

When editing a newborn photograph, make sure to always check their feet and hands. Why? you wonder? Because newborns tend to have red, or sometimes purple hands and feet due to poor circulation. While this is normal, it might not look so great in a photo against the rest of the body's skin tone.  Lightroom has brushes you can use to fix the tone in particular areas. You can purchase brushes through "Pretty Presets", which I have done and they work great! Another tip on brushes themselves, if you are not familiar with using them, is to make sure you put the "feather" indicator at 100%. This allows for the area you're working on to blend in more naturally with the existing pixels around it.

Hope this helps anyone who's looking for some more tips! I will be posting more in the future, so keep checking back!

In light of the topic, I thought I'd repost a photo I did of a newborn that I absolutely love. I used an antique light filter on this photo which compliments newborns skin tone so well that it's one of my favorite filters to use!