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The world without photography will be meaningless to us if there is no light and color, which opens up our minds and expresses passion.
Heal and Clone perform the same task differently, which is copying a target area onto a selected area, just like in Photoshop. However, the Clone Spot Removal tool will copy the target area precisely, duplicating texture and color, the Heal will only copy the...
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make the most of Lightroom as a RAW converter so you can draw out the best parts of your photograph. After this, the demonstration focuses on using Lightroom’s Adjustment Brushes for increasing the texture of the skin, enhancing eyes, saturating colors for makeup, and adjusting exposure in targeted areas for your desired...
The sclera, or the whites of the eyes, should be carefully considered when retouching beauty and fashion images as well as portraits. It can reflect makeup and bright colors surrounding the model during the shoot, or, more typically, look reddish and be riddled with blood vessels. In the video below, Michael Woloszynowicz demonstrates how to clean up the whites of the eyes in Photoshop by treating unwanted colors as a color cast. Overall, we...
While retouching beauty, fashion and portrait images, you will often encounter strong highlights that may need to be reduced. While current makeup trends lend themselves toward a “glowing” look through the use of heavy highlighters applied to the skin, there are many situations where the brightest parts of your image may still need to be...
n one of our previous articles titled Color Correcting Skin Tones With Adjustment Layers In Photoshop, we shared a tutorial on how to match a skin tone of one subject to another subject’s skin tone using another image as a reference. Sometimes, however, the same subject has different skin tones that need to be matched within the same image. While a makeup artist can help even out skin tone variations during the shoot, sometimes they are left...
As the universal saying goes “Eyes are the mirror of the soul”, and Beauty and Portrait photography tend to share one commonality: they both emphasize the subject’s eyes. The eyes might be highlighted in a more commercial sense to showcase makeup in Beauty, or meant to convey the personality of the subject in...
o turn on Quick Masking Mode, simply select the icon located beneath the color picker in the toolbar. To bring up Quick Mask Options, double click on that same icon. Use “Selected Areas” for the Color Indication, to choose a color that is complementary to the area you’re masking, and set the Opacity to 50%, so you can easily view the effectiveness of your...
When I am considering testing with a new for me retoucher, eyes are one of the first things I look at when surveying their portfolio. When a retoucher pays special attention to eyelashes, it is one of those indicators that tells me that it will be a long working...
he images that you might be hired to retouch for individual clients will be used for their personal enjoyment, to add to their portfolios or to grow their social media following. While commercial clients’ images are created to help promote their products or services that will in turn bring them profits and often multi-million dollar profits, if we’re talking about the...