How To Create a BACKGROUND GLOW For Portraits in Snapseed & Lightroom | Bride & Groom Edit | Android | iOS

Today we are gonna pop the subjects by adding a backlight in the background using Snapseed and Lightroom apps.

• First thing, I want to cover the open  parts in the sky here on the right.
• There are few ways to do it.
• I am gonna use this method.
• First will flip the image from the Rotate tool.
• There is no masking option here.
• So using Double Exposure...
• ...will add the original image again and use the masking tool
• to reveal the flipped image only on  the right which will mirror the left part.
• Now in Tune Image menu, reducing highlights and increasing shadows for some basic tuning.
• Healing tool to remove this distraction.
• Now using Curves, will darken the overall image.
• Next will create a light yellowish image for the backlight.
• First using Curves,
• turning the image to black by dragging the top right point  of the RGB curve to the bottom.
• Then lifting the green curve to the top...
• ...and adding reds which gives this bright yellow.
• Lifting the blacks to almost to the  top to get this shade of yellow.
• Will save this.
• And delete these curve edits  which are not needed now.
• Now will add the saved light  yellow background using Double Exposure.
• Setting the opacity to around 70 to 80%.
• Going to the masking screen, first tapping  on the subject to reveal the background.
• Applying and going to masking screen again...
• ...roughly revealing the subject.
• Not going for a precise masking work here.
• Just tapping on the subject to reveal.
• Keeping the bright parts around the subject  to give the hazy effect around the couple.
• This is the result we get.
• Will apply the same background using Double Exposure.
• This time in masking, zooming in to the maximum and applying it at 100%
• right between the couple to make it as bright as possible.
• Also precisely.
• For this, I may come back again to get right amount of light.
• Trying for right amount of masking at the top of the couple.
• This took me a bit of time but here is the result so far.
• Next I am gonna lift the blacks in Curves to get this hazy effect.
• Then apply it around the gap in the middle to give this ambient light passing through.
• Will use couple of selective filters to brighten the haze around.
• Applying one more Curves effect to darken the overall image.
• And in the masking screen, retaining the brightness on the subjects for a vignette effect.
• After a bit more tinkering with masking, got this result.
• Now sharing this to Lightroom app for some color tuning.
• Here in Lightroom, going directly to color menu>MIX.
• Tuning yellow hues towards oranges.
• Going now to grading, trying here to add more orangish tones to the highlights
• and cooler tones on the shadows.
• Coming back to the HSL sliders, moving blues towards cyan.
• Now adding sharpening selectively using Masking slider.
• Adding vibrance too.
• Tuning the Curves for overall contrast.

The final result here.