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Tutorials & presets · Chris Hernandez

Learn the edit.

The same Lightroom and Photoshop workflow behind my Instagram portraits: color grading, skin retouching and compositing, taught step by step with my own RAW files.

Before: the unedited raw frame of a woman in a fur coatAfter: the finished edit, composited into falling snowRawFinal
Featured tutorial

Inside the edit

Five stages, one frame: the Creative Portrait Editing Tutorial walks through every step of this image.

  1. Step 1: Raw01 · Raw
  2. Step 2: Skin retouching02 · Skin retouching
  3. Step 3: Background composite03 · Background composite
  4. Step 4: Color grading04 · Color grading
  5. Step 5: 3D stylization05 · 3D stylization
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Tutorials and presets together

The complete walkthroughs of how I edit my Instagram portraits, with RAW files, my frequency separation action and eight presets.

Single tutorials

One edit, in depth

Presets

My looks, one click away

Every photo is lit differently, so expect to fine-tune exposure and white balance for your image.

Desktop presets work with Lightroom Desktop and Adobe Camera Raw, not Lightroom mobile; the Vintage Vibes pack is made for Lightroom Mobile. All sales are final.

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