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

  How to Create an Animated GIF in Photoshop Here's an example of an animated GIF you might make using this tutorial: Alright, let's get started. Step 1: Upload your images to Photoshop. If you already have images created ... Gather the images you want in a separate folder. To upload them into Photoshop, click  File  >  Scripts  >  Load Files Into Stack. Then, select  Browse,  and choose which files you'd like to use in your GIF. Then, click  OK. Photoshop will then create a separate layer for each image you've selected. Once you've done that, skip to step two. If you don't already have the series of images created ... Create each frame of the animated GIF as a different Photoshop layer. To add a new layer, chose  Layer  >  New  >  Layer. Be sure to name your layers so you can keep track of them easily when you make your GIF. To name a layer, go to the  Layer panel  on the bottom right of your screen, double-click on the default layer name, and type