How to Edit Newborn Photos in Lightroom

Newborn Photography is quite challenging for photographers. To do baby photography, a photographer should have enough skills, patience, and willingness to capture the best photo.

It is more crucial to learn how to edit baby photo as flawless newborn photography is almost impossible.

Newborn photo editing is a time-consuming work as there may have many imperfections such as red tone on the skin, blemishes, and dust on the baby skin. A photo editor needs to remove those imperfections accurately to get the best result.

Adobe Lightroom is the best software to edit baby photos. In this article, I am going to teach you how to edit newborn photos in Lightroom by following step by step guideline.

6 simple ways to edit newborn photos in Adobe Lightroom

Increase the exposure in Camera

A little change in your camera can make a huge difference. You can get an eye-catching and vivid photo after the editing work has finished if you shoot the photo perfectly.

Before shooting the newborn portrait, slightly increase the exposure from the Camera setting as the skin of the newborn is a little bit reddish. By doing so, you can take the best photo with great brightness.

Shoot Raw

Try to shoot raw files when doing newborn photography. You can get the best color and exposure in your photo by taking a photo in raw files. Also, you can adjust the white balance; do color correction, and retouching the raw file precisely in Lightroom.

Use the contrast and clarity slider

If you want to get soft skin to your baby portrait, you should use the two magical tools in Lightroom.

The two tools are contrast and clarity. You can remove tonality from the photo by decreasing the contrast slider. Also, it helps you to eliminate the dark shadows and highlight tones from the newborn skin.

Decrease the clarity slider to get creamy and soft skin.

Adjust the skin tones with the help of HSL slider

Adjusting the skin tone and white balance helps you to get the best newborn photo. You can use the HSL slider in Photoshop to correct the color, contrast, white balance, and exposure manually in Lightroom.

Choose the targeted adjustment tool, and click on the image where has the imperfection to make them correct.

Choose every prop wisely

The backdrop and prop play an important role to make the photo alluring. You can use a blanket, pillow, and wraps to bring the newborn photo to the advanced level. Decorate these elements perfectly to get the best photo.

Use Lightroom preset to speed up your workflow

Lightroom preset especially the newborn photography preset helps to edit the newborn photo perfectly within a second. Lightroom presets don't only save your time but also helps to get a consistent look to your newborn photo.