Thereʼs plenty of skin softening (or skin smoothing) techniques and tutorials available on the internet. Some are pretty good, some not so much. Obviously, this is just my opinion and you should use whichever method or photoshop action you’re comfortable with but I thought by sharing one of my favorite techniques it might give you...
The key to balancing out an uneven skin tone is finding a way of targeting problem areas without affecting the rest of the skin. The Selective Color adjustment is a fantastic tool for this, allowing you to change the CMYK values in a primary color without affecting any of the other primary colors. In terms...
Any work you do to a subjects eyes during the editing process will have a dramatic impact on the portrait. There are so many different things you can do to enhance eyes – pupil enlargement, changing colour, creating new eye lashes etc. In this tutorial I’d like to show you a few of the basic...
Being able to retouch ‘perfect’ looking skin without completely destroying skin texture or making your subject look like a plastic doll requires patience. A lot of photographers seem to give-up after ten minutes or reach for skin softening actions and plug-ins. These things can be incredibly useful, I use them myself, but I think it’s...
Following on from my recent children’s photography feature in Photo Pro I’m really happy to have been asked to write a series of portrait retouching tutorials for the magazine. I know there’s quite a few overseas photographers who read my blog and are unable to get the magazine so I thought I’d post the tutorials...
I was really pleased to be asked recently to do an interview about my retouch work for a new website for photographers called The Photography Parlour. Even though its still fairly new its a great site with some fantastic information already available. Thanks to Rosie Parsons for asking me to get involved.
