Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop
By:"Scott Kelby"
Published on 2011-03-24 by Pearson Education
Each year, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine and the #1 best-selling Photoshop author, trains literally thousands of photographers on how to retouch portraits using Photoshop through his live seminars, online classes, DVDs, and standing-room only workshops at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Now you can learn the same techniques he uses in his own retouching workflow, in the only book of its kind–one written expressly for photographers who do their own retouching. As a pro photographer himself, Scott understands that photographers make their living shooting, not retouching. But, delivering fully retouched images is now expected by clients. That’s why Scott put together this amazing resource for teaching photographers the quickest, easiest, and most effective ways to create professional-looking, retouched final images without spending hours grinding away at painstaking, detailed techniques. LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT It’s all here–the step-by-step methods for fixing, enhancing, and finishing your portraits in Photoshop. Using the techniques in this book, you’ll create images that will absolutely wow your clients. You’ll learn: • How to soften skin and still retain detail and texture • The best tricks for beautifully enhancing eyes, eyebrows, and eyelashes • How to selectively sharpen portraits without complicated masking • How to create gorgeous-looking lips • How to remove blemishes fast and keep the most detail • The pros’ tricks for body sculpting • How to make your subject’s hair look fabulous • How to give your retouches that natural look that sets them apart • Plus, you get Scott’s complete 5-minute, 15-minute, and 30-minute start-to-finish workflows If you’re ready to learn the “tricks of the trade”–the same ones that today’s leading pro photographers use to retouch, tuck, tighten, and tone their images for that pro-retouched look–you’re holding the book that will do exactly that. It will radically change the way you retouch your portraits from here on out, and give you the best-looking, most natural retouches you’ve ever done.
This Book was ranked 31 by Google Books for keyword profesional photoshop.
Thanks for sharing this post on professional portrait retouching — it’s always interesting to see techniques for enhancing images! Portrait retouching can make a big difference in final results, but it’s important to know how to work carefully so skin tones still look natural and not overly edited. For anyone just getting started with retouching and wondering how to improve skin while keeping a realistic look, this How to do Skin Retouching in Photoshop guide is a helpful resource. It walks through the steps and tools needed to smooth skin, reduce blemishes, and enhance portraits without losing texture or making the edits obvious. Learning these basics makes editing faster and more enjoyable, so you can get the most out of your photos
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