New Born Portrait - C&C Welcome

Hi Everyone
I have recently done my first new born shoot and was wondering if anyone was able tell me how to make the background black using Lightroom or CS3?

you can make it grey where it's green by desaturating the greens in lightroom develop module... making it black will require masking & curves or direct cloning - difficult with baby's hair
also with any delicate subject you really should avoid a directional light source of any kind... diffused light is much preferable and gives a more beautiful result. to soften the shadows add some fill light in lightroom and play around with the curves panel until you like the result

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somethingsimple wrote in post #6331774
you can make it grey where it's green by desaturating the greens in lightroom develop module... making it black will require masking & curves or direct cloning - difficult with baby's hair
also with any delicate subject you really should avoid a directional light source of any kind... diffused light is much preferable and gives a more beautiful result. to soften the shadows add some fill light in lightroom and play around with the curves panel until you like the result

Thanks somethingsimple for you reply and advice... will try your suggestions and see how I go... thanks again

good luck

THere is also a brush/tool in Photoshop that desaturates.. the Sponge I think it is (without having photoshop handy to look at)..

I used it recently for something similar Just select brush size and paint away