Posts Tagged ‘Portrait ’
We work on a small budget at school doing pictures for the yearbook. One of the things that hasn’t made it into the budget – since we don’t do a whole lot of formal portraits – is a background stand with some backgrounds. Instead, we make do with what we…
Let’s continue . Now that we’ve made some global adjustments and gotten the exposure/color more or less the way we want it, we can move on to the major reason why people generally touch up photos – hiding blemishes and softening skin. To the left, we have the image as…
So here’s our original, unedited image. In the first part of this , we’re going to address some global issues – exposure, levels, color, etc. Once we have the overall feel of the picture down, we can work on more localized touch ups. Looking at this picture, there are a…
Looking through my site’s stats I realized that – while I’ve written a lot about Adobe Lightroom and I’ve written increasingly about Adobe InDesign – I’ve posted almost nothing about Adobe Photoshop. While I do a lot more editing for events and such in Lightroom, there is still a place…
While the will tell you the specific ratio of its length to its height, there are some more general terms to describe the orientation of a picture. Most pictures will fit into one of two categories: landscape orientation and portrait orientation.
While the will tell you the specific ratio of its length to its height, there are some more general terms to describe the orientation of a picture. Most pictures will fit into one of two categories: landscape orientation and portrait orientation.
In the first step of this tutorial, we looked at . We cleaned up Mario’s face a little, removing some spots and a slight scratch/scar. Then, we used the adjustment brush to apply some negative clarity and . At this point, he looks pretty good. This is no magazine cover,…
In the , we did some editing to Mario’s face and removed some blemishes and what not. It’s started to look cleaner, but his skin is still a bit rough, especially if you zoom in. Next, we want to soften that skin out, make the pores less noticeable, and remove…
While people often think of Lightroom’s editing capabilities in terms of global adjustments (exposure, contrast, saturation, etc), it can also be used to re-touch portraits. Over the course of this week, we’re going to look at how we can use a few tools in Lightroom to quickly re-touch someone’s face…
Photo by: Sziga. I found this simple studio portrait in the “Portraits” tag on Flickr. It’s a good execution of a simple two-light scheme. If you click through to the photo page, there’s a description of the lights. But, you should have a decent idea based on the catch-lights in…
