Below are 5 images from the same cropped photo. It was shot unposed with a Nikon in RAW mode with a 50mm f1.8D lens. I first opened the image with Lightroom, made some minor adjustments, cropped it to you would be able to see the differences better, and then exported it as a jpg file. Next, I opened it with Portrait Professional 12.2 (the latest version which I bought yesterday), and played with many different settings, mostly on the young lady. The 2nd - 4th photos are from those variations. I still needed to make some other minor adjustments for lighting on her face and also for the lipstick and some blemishes on the skin, as well as removing part of the person behind the guy. I used Photoshop to do this. Had this been a planned shot, there would have been no one else in the photo to distract from them and I would have taken more than 2 photos. But this is just to show what can be done with photo editing software to a properly exposed image shot in RAW mode.
It's pretty amazing what some minor adjustments can do in a photo. The next step in this photo would be to completely remove the person behind them, which I did in the photo below.
As always, click on the photos to see a larger size.
Hope you all have a great weekend, stay healthy, and enjoy all that you do.
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