As much as we all want to feel beautiful in photographs, for most photographers, the goal is to make a subject look as she would on her very best day, which is not recognizable. It is tempting to go heavy in Photoshop, with its powerful tools for creating flawless skin.

Lightroom can be utilized to produce a perfectly polished portrait. Lightroom’s Local Area Adjustments including the Spot Removal Tool and Adjustment Brush Tool are extremely powerful when it comes to retouching portraits. In fact, more often then not, you can take care of 90% of your retouching work right in Lightroom. You can even remove blemishes, smoothing skin, brightening eyes and even healing out eye bags by using Lightroom. You can get huge help from “Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and 4.” It is very well illustrated and easily described. Here are few samples below of lightroom photo retouching that I find more interesting and beautiful…

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