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.
Over the past few months I’ve been busy retouching images for a variety of incredibly talented photographers. There’s something I find quite liberating about working on images for other people, especially when the retouch brief is “do what you want”. When working on my own photography I tend to get really hung up on the...
Right, I’m back! Two weeks ago I suffered massive hard drive failure and I just got all my data back this afternoon. You can read all the gory details here if you’re interested. Anyway, I’ve got quite a bit of catching up to do work wise so I might not have anything new to post...
