Edit your photos like a Pro!

in #photography7 years ago

Are you tired of your images looking boring and dull?



If this is you and you want to take your photos to the next level, here is my workflow when editing portrait photos.

Here is my checklist when editing my portrait photos in Photoshop:

    1. Remove any obvious blemishes and stray hairs using the spot healing brush tool and patch tool
    1. Add my favourite Camera Raw preset (I always use VSCO and mainly the Agfa Vista 100 or 400 series)
    1. Do some frequency separation which smooths skin the right way by maintaining skin texture and you can remove any further blemishes
      • 4. Dodge and Burn on specific areas at a time. Eyes, Face, Lips, Nose, Jaw Line, Body and Hair are the individual areas I treat.
    1. Add any additional levels/curves to brighten/darken specific areas of the image.
    1. Finish off the image with custom curves to create the specific tone I am going for.

And thats the checklist I always follow when do any portrait work. Here are a few more of my images where I followed the same workflow.

If you have questions or need some advice or tips, then please drop me a message below :)

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Really high quality shots!

Great advice too!

Thank you so much... I just hope that any advice or tips I can give, no matter how small, might be able to help someone..

great tips and some quality work. upped, resteemed and followed you for more :)

Ah thank you so much, I really appreciate it :)

You like very much cold tones.....

Yes I do, I much prefer the cooler tones as I find cooler tones make it easier to make the skin pop..

very cool photos also check my account :)

Thank you... For sure I will :)

Really great tips they are.

Nice shots.