During the week a fellow 365er has some problems with a drooling child in a photo. I volunteered my services to remove the drool as the person was having difficulties.
As part of that I thought it would make for a great how-to video so after I removed the drool I did a portrait touch up.
If you want to have a look you can check it out here:
You rock Brendan, boy im glad im on the same 'timeline' as you so I get to follow your whole year. I dont have 28.38 minutes to watch this tonight, american idol is on (LOL!!) but I will tomorrow :)
Fantastic Brendan i need to learn more of this kind of thing, i get so far in cs5 then i have to finish the rest off in paint shop pro9 : [ is the any good cs5 books you reconmend.
Thank you Brendan!! I really like to see how other people do the touch-ups... and also nice to here a voice of one of the people on 365! LOL
So you use a tablet, any advice on them you'd like to share (I'm looking into buying one)
Ah, thank you Mr. Maunder! So grateful for people like you who so willingly give of their time and talents to help others improve their own skills! I've got to put that tablet-thingy on my wishlist! Makes it look so easy and quick.
Thank You again for sharing Brendan. Extra questions now. On average how long do you spend to get a photo? Setting up, taking, processing?
From a shoot, like with the models, how many of the photos do you take through to processing?
And finally, Assuming all the really bad stuff has been scrapped, what is the priority when choosing which pic to finish, composition, lighting, color ..?
@simon0128 no no no no.... Photoshop kicks arse... Look up the photoshop guys.... You will learn more from then on-line for free that you will from any book.
I guess the answer really depends on the photo and what the purpose is. Some photos will take 9-10 hours where others will only take 10 minutes.
I you ask me against a particular image I can tell you.
I am doing a wedding shot and will be there for around 12 hours, from that 12 hours I will spend 3-4 hour on work before hand, and then another 60-80 hours on post processing. After that I will spend another 5-6 hours with the client talking about the photos and selecting finals... :)
it's helpful~
and would you please recommend some portrait editing tutorial or software? how about portrait professional? I saw a comparison article
www.arcsoft.com/topic/portrait-retoucher/portraitplus-and-portraitprofessional-comparison.html
Do you have any good ideas for portrait retouching for kids?
I own and use Portrait professional, however most of the time most of my processing is conducted in photoshop.
Now having said that if I didnt have photoshop I would use it more if not all the time.
Kids have great skin so you normally do not have to do anything with that. The also have great big eyes... So to make them the centre of attention is the key.
sharpen, put contrast in.
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So you use a tablet, any advice on them you'd like to share (I'm looking into buying one)
From a shoot, like with the models, how many of the photos do you take through to processing?
And finally, Assuming all the really bad stuff has been scrapped, what is the priority when choosing which pic to finish, composition, lighting, color ..?
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@lindenswhite Yes one of those tablet thingys will save you a heap of time... :)
@tigerdreamer Karen H Interesting question.
I guess the answer really depends on the photo and what the purpose is. Some photos will take 9-10 hours where others will only take 10 minutes.
I you ask me against a particular image I can tell you.
I am doing a wedding shot and will be there for around 12 hours, from that 12 hours I will spend 3-4 hour on work before hand, and then another 60-80 hours on post processing. After that I will spend another 5-6 hours with the client talking about the photos and selecting finals... :)
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and would you please recommend some portrait editing tutorial or software? how about portrait professional? I saw a comparison article
www.arcsoft.com/topic/portrait-retoucher/portraitplus-and-portraitprofessional-comparison.html
Do you have any good ideas for portrait retouching for kids?
Now having said that if I didnt have photoshop I would use it more if not all the time.
Kids have great skin so you normally do not have to do anything with that. The also have great big eyes... So to make them the centre of attention is the key.
sharpen, put contrast in.