Tag Archives: Retouching

Review – Lightroom Presets for portrait retouching by Sleeklens

Strike a Pose Workflow Review “Lightroom Preset Collection for Portraits”   Today I’ll be reviewing a new product from Sleeklens.com, a collection of Lightroom development presets and brushes they are calling “Strike a Pose Workflow“.  These tools are specific to … Continue reading

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Basic Photo Retouching in GIMP

The post Basic Photo Retouching in GIMP appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Ana Mireles. Do you feel your photos are good but not great? Do you think something is missing in your images? You may … Continue reading

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Understanding Imaging Techniques: the Difference Between Retouching, Manipulating, and Optimizing Images

The post Understanding Imaging Techniques: the Difference Between Retouching, Manipulating, and Optimizing Images appeared first on Digital Photography School. It was authored by Herb Paynter. Understanding Imaging Techniques Three distinct post-production processes alter the appearance of digital photographs: Retouching, Manipulating, … Continue reading

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Skin Retouching Basics in Photoshop

  From the Phlearn YouTube Channel:   Today Aaron shows you some basic tools that will help skin look its very best. Learn to remove fine lines and hairs with the Spot Healing Brush Tool, recover skin texture with the … Continue reading

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Five Common Portrait Retouching Mistakes to Avoid

When it comes to retouching portraits there are a number of mistakes that I see photographers make over and over. Part of the problem is that there are too many poorly made skin smoothing plugins. Another is that Photoshop gives … Continue reading

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“Strike a Pose Workflow” Review – Lightroom Presets for portrait retouching

Strike a Pose Workflow Review “Lightroom Preset Collection for Portraits”   Today I’ll be reviewing a new product from Sleeklens.com, collection of Lightroom development presets and brushes they are calling “Strike a Pose Workflow“.  These tools are specific to editing … Continue reading

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5 Must-Know Photoshop Retouching Tips and Tricks for Photographers

Here are five quick tips for doing retouching in Photoshop that are essential to know. Learn them to do better retouching on your photos. #1 – Load Luminosity as a Selection In Photoshop you can use the luminosity of an … Continue reading

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How to do Portrait Retouching With Luminar

Macphun’s Luminar is a versatile beast. While a lot is made of processing landscapes and cityscapes, you find it also happens to be a very capable portrait editor. Follow along with this walkthrough to see how I use Luminar to … Continue reading

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5 Reasons to Use Lightroom for Portrait Retouching

There are some photographers who use Photoshop or plugins such as Portrait Pro to do portrait retouching. There is nothing wrong with this and these programs can do an excellent job, especially if you retouch portraits at a high level. … Continue reading

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3 Video Tutorials – Portrait Retouching Tips Using Lightroom

Many of our readers use Photoshop to edits portraits, but what if all you have is Lightroom? Or you don’t know Photoshop as well? You can certainly do most of your portrait retouching using Lightroom. Here are some video tutorials … Continue reading

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Adobe makes cropping and retouching in Photoshop CC easier

Adobe has announced a fresh batch of new features for Photoshop CC 2016 and one of the biggest additions is Content Aware Crop. If you’ve ever expanded or cut down an image or rotated it slightly, you can basically say … Continue reading

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New: The Photo Retouching Master Class at 50% Off

This course covers everything from mastering the black and white workflow, getting the best results with your RAW files, adding drama to photos, correctly exposing highlights and recovering drama without too much of the “HDR look”, stylizing photos, bringing life … Continue reading

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