Hi guys, I have always been a fan of photoshop and decided I would try some re touching on random portraits / pictures. This is the first one I have ever tried so feedback is greatly appreciated. (Google led me to this site and exact sub forum
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This is my professional attempt at retouching as I normally do.
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I really like this one, do you have a psd or something where I could see how you adjusted the lighting / skin tone? Was it with the burn / dodge tools?
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1. Retouching the skin blemishes. Enlarge pic to 200% on your screen. Work with small brush with 50% opacity.
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2. Set highlight, shadow and curve how you want your effect. As you can see I adjusted the curves also in the different canals to get a bit more color in the skin tones.
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3. Color corrections. I treated the ladies and the guy individually. You draw a quick mask around the face , give it a soft edge and apply color correction. In the screenshot you see that I darkened the guys skin a little.
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On this image I didn't use the dodge and burn tool. Skin tones remain more natural if you just use the curves and color corrections. Finally I masked the eyes, gave them more contrast with the curve tool, then sharpened them a little with unsharpmasking.
I hope I could help you here, excuse my english because I'm german speaking, and I only use a german version of Photoshop.