Tilt-shift photography has become quite a trendy effect within portraiture, especially wedding photography. Unfortunately good Tilt-shift lenses aren’t cheap so I thought a tutorial on how to achieve similar results in Photoshop might be useful. There’s a variety of ways of creating this effect in Photoshop but most of them involve you having to create...
In this tutorial we’re going to look at a great technique for adding contrast to your images. The technique uses two curves adjustment layers, one to control the lighter parts of the image and a second to control the darker parts. Each layer uses a simple luminosity mask to restrict the adjustments so they only...
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.
