Adobe Photoshop Tutorials

Ok where do we start with this, I think the best place and most satisfying place to start would be on portraits. What you need to know about portraits is that you can keep tweaking them forever, so you must start with the obvious areas first and work form there. It’s all about bring out the very good points in a photo and not the bad ones.

Retouching portraits are generally either about drama our flattery, or even both. Sometimes you might be after that perfect memory from a wedding, 21st birthday party or even a christening, remember all portraits benefit with a little retouching and correcting.

Correcting and retouching enables you to express yourself in ways that aren’t possible with the flaws that have happen in your photo, this could be lines that shouldn’t be there, people that need to be moved, peoples moods and personalities.

A great tip here would be to look at your photo and right down what needs altering and what can be improved for that memorable photograph, below I have list 4 major ideas which you need to know.

Colour Work – Includes selective edits such as whitening teeth and whitening people’s pupils, also changing there skin tone and clothing.

Enhancing Lips – Softened skin and widened pupils are subtle changes that create a really sexy impression, but you must make sure they are subtle enough not to be noticed.

Face and Body Thinning – This can be very effective, and it’s a whole lot easier than putting your subjects on a very quick diet. I will guarantee you that nearly every cover girl or model has had some alteration done to them on photoshop before they go on the front cover.

Points of Interest – creating points of interest is a more general technique that uses subtle shifts in brightness, contrast and focus to highlight your subjects best features, the best way to use this is steer the viewers eye around a scene so that they see what you want them to see.