Comments on: The Best and Worst of Photoshop Retouching http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/the-best-and-worst-of-photoshop-retouching Wedding Photographer Blog Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dorian Elwer http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/the-best-and-worst-of-photoshop-retouching/comment-page-1#comment-23810 Dorian Elwer Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:09:35 +0000 http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/?p=6219#comment-23810 Nice To read The article..Fine article i am Involved in this..Rocking. Nice To read The article..Fine article i am Involved in this..Rocking.

]]> By: Mike http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/the-best-and-worst-of-photoshop-retouching/comment-page-1#comment-2199 Mike Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:26:48 +0000 http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/?p=6219#comment-2199 You'd think they'd use better photos for their examples. For some reason, spending much time healing out blemishes and liquifying a face that is out of focus because the camera focused on the background seems like a bit of a waste to me. You’d think they’d use better photos for their examples. For some reason, spending much time healing out blemishes and liquifying a face that is out of focus because the camera focused on the background seems like a bit of a waste to me.

]]> By: Dan http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/the-best-and-worst-of-photoshop-retouching/comment-page-1#comment-2028 Dan Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:09:59 +0000 http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/blog/?p=6219#comment-2028 Having done the dodge and burn by hand soooooooooo many times myself, for touch-ups like the one pictured above, I can't help but love my Portraiture plugin. The color masking makes the process quick and accurate and the degree of cover up is painless. It literally would cut the time down to a fifth of even fixing red-blotchy marks on a person face. Want to loose lines or crows feet? Done in a snap. I bring this up merely to say there are dozens of filters and tools beyond the out-of-the-box Photoshop tools that make mounds of touch up work go by *days* sooner. How about a show of hands for those of us who've had people ask to hide some cellulite or make their figure more/less "shapely?" I've got to say my most heart-wrenching edit was when a family member had a friend with a newborn who didn't live more than a few days. They had some photos of their girl, but she had a breathing tube in her nose in all of them. I was able to clone/stamp/mirror/brush/blur/smudge my way into making the tubes disappear, and now the few photos they had show her as the happy baby she was without the distracting medical apparatus. I'm told they were very happy with the results and I'm glad to hear it. Laymen don't know what it takes to do stuff like that, but they appreciate the photoshop "magic." Having done the dodge and burn by hand soooooooooo many times myself, for touch-ups like the one pictured above, I can’t help but love my Portraiture plugin. The color masking makes the process quick and accurate and the degree of cover up is painless. It literally would cut the time down to a fifth of even fixing red-blotchy marks on a person face. Want to loose lines or crows feet? Done in a snap.

I bring this up merely to say there are dozens of filters and tools beyond the out-of-the-box Photoshop tools that make mounds of touch up work go by *days* sooner.

How about a show of hands for those of us who’ve had people ask to hide some cellulite or make their figure more/less “shapely?”

I’ve got to say my most heart-wrenching edit was when a family member had a friend with a newborn who didn’t live more than a few days. They had some photos of their girl, but she had a breathing tube in her nose in all of them. I was able to clone/stamp/mirror/brush/blur/smudge my way into making the tubes disappear, and now the few photos they had show her as the happy baby she was without the distracting medical apparatus. I’m told they were very happy with the results and I’m glad to hear it. Laymen don’t know what it takes to do stuff like that, but they appreciate the photoshop “magic.”

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