Photography and adobe Photoshop Editing

Most today’s successful retouchers have learned how to build and maintain their retouching business through trial and error. As time passes, I am working more as a freelancer, and even though the safety net from the day job has crumbled, I still manage to keep on going. Business Mindset It is tempting to think that your mailbox will overflow with client emails offering piles of cash and thrilling creative projects from day one, because you’re a great retoucher. The truth is, though, that in the first days, weeks, months, and even years, it can be quite a struggle to get commissioned jobs regularly. And not all of them will be as exciting as creative collaborations you might have been working on when you fell in love with retouching. You need to have the right mindset when you start out as a freelance retoucher. You might be a digital artist with multiple degrees and stellar retouching skill, but if you can’t get yourself noticed and close deals with your potential clients, none of that

Ever hear the phrase “the camera adds ten pounds?” Any number of things can go wrong during a photo shoot and make the subject look heavier than they actually are. Maybe the lighting was off, the angle was bad, or the subject’s posture was unflattering. But there’s a simple way to fix those mistakes and bring out your subject’s natural beauty. There’s nothing we hate more than when designers reinforce unrealistic body expectations by using Photoshop to slim down models until they look nothing like their actual self. In fact, in our countdown of the worst movie posters ever, that was our main beef with the movie poster for “The Heat,” where Melissa McCarthy is slimmed down to the point of being unrecognizable. The Adobe Photoshop technique we’re about to show you isn’t about giving your subject a skinny body type, and it’s definitely not about turning them into an inhumanly airbrushed, ultra-thin cartoon character. It’s about making them look the way they naturally look under the best p

When it comes to editing skin tones, Adobe Photoshop has always reigned supreme. Lightroom could change the white balance and even alter the Hue, Saturation, and Luminance values, but this is often not accurate enough to render great skin tones. This changed with the introduction of RGB curves in Lightroom 4, allowing us to change the values of Red, Green & Blue at a specific tonal range of the image. How this changes things will be explained below, but suffice to say it makes for much nicer skin tones without the need to export to photoshop. (Not exporting to photoshop has numerous benefits including file size, no duplicate files, and all changes stay non-destructive.. Not to mention speed of workflow) So let’s get to it.. The image above, straight from camera looks pretty good to start with.. And if you are not looking for a colour cast it would be easy to miss the slightly red/magenta skin tones. (See before and after image at the end of the post for a comparison) Select the sam