![]() ![]() We could go in here and we could clean up the hair if we wanted. Now what we want to do is actually move it a little bit and start to clean things up. Once, again, we can see the before and the after, so what we’ve done is to just open up some detail. So, we’re going to open this now inside of Photoshop, so we’re just going to click OK and now we open it. So if we look here, this is where we started and this is where we’ve ended. Now what I would like to do a lot with portraits is, maybe, push the temperature up, just a little touch, so I’m just going to barely breath on it, and I’m giving it the +3 and it just kind of warms up the skin a little bit. And we can do that by choosing the white balance settings up here if you shot in raw or grab this little tool here and then click in an area that would be white, so we can look for an area in here, maybe there, an area of detail, click on that that will neutralize it. Make sure you’ve got your white balance set correctly. And the other thing that you want to do too is the white balance. If we go the other way, it kind of shows a more dynamic grain, so I’m just going to double click to reset it, just give it a little push. So if we give this more contrast, notice it gives it more punch and more feel. Now, we can flavor this with the Contrast slider. But I want to get it just enough so we can start to see some color in here and a little bit of definition. You don’t want to open it all the way up here because it’s not very flattering at all and it makes the hair look like it’s made out of straw, so you really want to avoid that. Okay, so we can put the blacks in there and put a little body in there, play around with those whites, and I feel like I want to open up the shadows a little bit more. In fact, that exposure’s too hot, let’s bring it back down. It’s gone a little far, notice that we can pull our Highlights down just enough to kind of keep some highlights there in the skin, and same thing, I want to open up the Shadows a little bit, see a little bit more detail there in her hair, so let’s open it up a little bit and we’re going to play around. So I can see here, we need to open things up a little bit, so let’s move our exposure a little bit. So what we’re going to do is just add basic corrections first, then we’re going to come in and do our close up retouching. Now, if you’re working on an earlier version of Photoshop, what you want to do is launch it in Camera Raw from Bridge or start in Lightroom. So the first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to go under Filter here and we’re going to go to Camera Raw Filter. I’m just going to show you the basic work flows and the techniques, so you can pick this up for yourself. And we’re not going to spend hours retouching this. So, I’m just going to hit Ctrl J to copy this so we can look at a before and after later. So what does that mean? Well, that means essentially we fix the biggest problems first and then, move on to the smallest ones. So when we go to retouch a portrait photograph, what we want to do is just remember, start big and then go small. Hey everybody, it’s Colin Smith here from PhotoshopCAFE and today I’m going to show you how to retouch a portrait. How to Retouch a Face in Photoshop in 4 Steps (Written steps, editing and images coming soon) Most of the time, we are not trying to turn them into another person, but bring out the best of that person. I have seen too many retouched photos, that don’t resemble the original person. I don’t change the proportions of facial features etc. Finally you can apply dodging and burning and coloring to add shape and style.Īnother philosophy I like to follow is only retouch out things that are temporary, such as acne, bags under the eyes, those kinds of things. Then you move to large blemishes and wrinkles, then onto smaller pores and flyway hair. To deal with the largest areas first, such as overall toning and coloring. The philosophy followed here, is start big and go small. ![]()
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