Retouching: Addendum to photo retouching post below...

Realised as I was looking at my work files, that the method that I am using right now, does not allow me to go back and retouch the skin I had been smoothing. Granted the results are nice, having the ability to go back and retouch anything at all at any time is worth much more then the current workflow I have.

So far I am thinking I need to do things in this order:

1. Color adjustments allowing me to better represent the full range of colors inside of the image. These are then grouped and left at the top of the stack.

2. Skin retouching. This was where I messed up before, I need to actually do this FIRST, and not wait and do it after the skin tone is fixed. The reason being, the current way I do skin tone is uneditable if I do it first. Fixing skin tone second allows me to work out all the blemishes first.... or perhaps I just need to rethink how I work out my skin tone....

3. Skin tone: See above....

Need to think about this..

Retouching: Photo Retouching

After

Before

Finished the first piece that was done via several tutorials. Learned to use many tools I had not ever used before as well as working with layers which was a nice change of pace. Not to mention though, working with many layers makes things easy to go back and edit various aspects that might need retouching again later.

Anyway, still go things to learn, but there is no better way to learn then through repitition so I am going to try to keep editing various pics that I have at home from my own camera.

Retouching: Photoshop photo retouching

Started trying to work out various tutorials I have on retouching photos inside of photoshop. Started first with a tutorial I got from a more main stream source and while the method is good, I did not like the workflow for smoothing out the skin. I think saved where I was and started to work another short video tutorial I found online from a free source. I actually liked it alot better, not to mention it is tons faster for skin tone at least.

Shall post some pictures later to this blog once I get a chance to.

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I shall be using this blog here to update you all with stuff. Dont know what. Dont know when. But there will be stuff to update with. Woot!

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