This was a fun project. My client is so fabulous and comes up with cool ideas and then allows me to play around with how I interrupt his thoughts. This campaign needed very natural retouching, very cool color correcting and texture. Thanks A!
My client needed natural retouching for his commercial headshots. It’s extremely important headshot retouching is natural. Casting Directors and their clients want to know what the model/actress looks like before requesting for an audition. It does not do the actor/model, agent, director or client any good when a headshot is not true to life.
Natural retouching is normally essential when retouching males, whether commercial, beauty or fashion. My client needed their client retouched naturally for their promotional/press images. I added a little pop to the image, while keeping it natural, real and approachable.
This was a fun project. My client needed images retouched for their product line. Already a great body to begin with, it needed some skin color/tone change and fun high/low lights to bring out a more marketable image.
Retouching men is so much fun! It’s all about keeping it real, yet perfecting any flaws, whether due to the photography or the subject. This project was for a record label, they asked for it to be natural and pop. Holla…that’s what I do best.
Retouching males can be a bit tricky. You really need to keep the feeling natural and masculine. Retouching too much can completely alter what the photographer or client intended for the image. I actually almost prefer retouching men, something about keeping it raw, yet almost flawless is so fun and challenging. Altering certain features can…
Beauty is not just about images of women, it’s encompasses anything that is beautiful. I do not just retouch beauty images of women, but also men. In fact, it’s just as fun, if not more, retouching men for beauty shots, because the objective is a tad different and challenging. How to retouch a male, without…
This image only needed a little tweaking with the coloring, retouching and cropping. Just fine adjustments can make a world of a difference.
Here is a retouching project for a catalog cover. My client needed natural retouching, color correcting, adding sides and rotating. Retouching men should never be overdone, it will take away from what the company is trying to sell if a consumer noticed how polished a man looks.
This image was a bit blown out. My client needed it for the cover of their catalog. Some natural retouching and color correcting helped this image become a rich, popping cover.
It’s amazing how all retouchers are different. We all have our own artistic talent, like a painter, sketcher, sculpture or designer. Yes, many retouch artists use the same software, like an artist uses brushes, charcoals, pencils, paints or clays, but we all look at images differently and have our own style, flair, experience and expertise….
My clients expect their headshots to be naturally retouched. I know a thing or two about acting, was in the business for a number of years and the one thing a casting director wants to know is, “what do you really look like”. Why waste your time or the casting directors time if you are…
Nothing is more pleasing than to take a photogenic male who could be close to flawless and making the image as if he is, yet still approachable and real. It’s so much more gratifying, though time consuming, retouching in a natural way.
This was a retouching order for an athlete’s press kit. It’s amazing what photo retouching can do for an image. It sometimes can literally create a new image for a fraction of what it would cost to have an ideal photo shoot or a reshoot. Sometimes a photo shoot is a last minute request and…
Not all types of skin needs the same amount or type of retouching. Every image is different and needs certain tools and techniques to get the job done right and naturally. I wanted to keep my client’s image as natural as possible. Unfortunately the blog posts only give you a small image to view, but…