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...
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...
