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 got an email from another photographer today who is currently involved in a big product shoot He wanted to know the best way to combine two exposures in Photoshop of the same product, one exposed for the product (1/60th at f11) and the other exposed for the LCD screen with the studio flash off....
Texture overlays have become extemely popular with portrait and wedding photographers over the last year or two. Obviously, it doesn’t suit every image but on the right image the results can look fantastic. By using different types of textures on you can create a wide variety of looks from simple toning to completely destroying an...
