This is the final instal­ment of this series. So far I’ve laid down the foun­da­tions for all por­trait retouch­ing and, to a degree, other gen­res. If you break your dark room processes down into steps then you will be able to edit and pro­duce out­stand­ing work rather than try­ing to do every­thing at once. In this [More…]

This post is all about skin retouch­ing, what it is and com­mon mis­takes that peo­ple make. I will make it clear up front I will not be using any blur meth­ods in this tuto­r­ial. The rea­sons for this come down to what these meth­ods do. They destroy the fab­ric of your image. We have to step back [More…]

This is a lengthy arti­cle on my retouch­ing work flow. It’s not a in-depth account of every stage but rather my thought processes on key aspects that I con­sider through­out the early stages. 2 more arti­cles will fol­low cov­er­ing other areas of my work-flow. This par­tic­u­lar process has been devel­oped over 10 years from var­i­ous sources I’ve read over [More…]

This is an intro­duc­tion to the retouch­ing meth­ods I use within Pho­to­shop, don’t take this as gospel as my meth­ods and tech­niques do change as I explore the hid­den fea­tures of Pho­to­shop. Instead use these tuto­ri­als as a map towards your own styles and tech­niques. I use Masks and Chan­nels exten­sively to shape and mould the images and many [More…]