Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop (Voices That Matter)

Each year, Scott Kelby, Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User magazine and the #1 best-selling Photoshop author, trains literally thousands of photographers on how to retouch portraits using Photoshop through his live seminars, online classes, DVDs, and standing-room only workshops at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo. Now you can learn the same techniques he uses in his own retouching workflow, in the only book of its kind–one written expressly for photographers who do their own retouching. As a pro photographer himself, Scott understands that photographers make their living shooting, not retouching. But, delivering fully retouched images is now expected by clients. That’s why Scott put together this amazing resource for teaching photographers the quickest, easiest, and most effective ways to create professional-looking, retouched final images without spending hours grinding away at painstaking, detailed techniques. LEARN HOW THE PROS DO IT It’s all here–the step-by-step methods for fixing, enhancing, and finishing your portraits in Photoshop. Using the techniques in this book, you’ll create images that will absolutely wow your clients. You’ll learn: • How to soften skin and still retain detail and texture • The best tricks for beautifully enhancing eyes, eyebrows, and eyelashes • How to selectively sharpen portraits without complicated masking • How to create gorgeous-looking lips • How to remove blemishes fast and keep the most detail • The pros’ tricks for body sculpting • How to make your subject’s hair look fabulous • How to give your retouches that natural look that sets them apart • Plus, you get Scott’s complete 5-minute, 15-minute, and 30-minute start-to-finish workflows If you’re ready to learn the “tricks of the trade”–the same ones that today’s leading pro photographers use to retouch, tuck, tighten, and tone their images for that pro-retouched look–you’re holding the book that will do exactly that. It will radically change the way you retouch your portraits from here on out, and give you the best-looking, most natural retouches you’ve ever done. CONTENTS......Page 9 CHAPTER 1 NAKED EYES: Retouching Eyes......Page 26 Increasing Contrast in the Iris......Page 27 Darkening the Outer Rim of the Iris......Page 31 Adding More Life to the Eyes......Page 37 Enhancing and/or Creating Catch Lights......Page 42 Brightening the Whites of the Eyes......Page 49 Removing Eye Veins......Page 57 Changing Eye Color......Page 60 Reducing Dark Circles Under Eyes......Page 63 Making Eyes Larger (or Smaller)......Page 67 Swapping One Eye for the Other......Page 74 Enhancing Eyelashes......Page 82 Creating Beautiful Eyebrows......Page 93 Making Fuller Eyebrows......Page 100 Darkening the Eyebrows......Page 104 Sharpening Eyes to Make Them Sparkle......Page 106 CHAPTER2 UNDER MY SKIN: Retouching Skin......Page 110 Removing Blemishes......Page 111 How to Avoid Plastic-Looking Skin......Page 114 Basic “Quickie” Skin Softening......Page 115 Softening Skin While Retaining Texture......Page 121 Softening Skin & Adding Texture Back In......Page 127 High Pass Skin Softening......Page 133 Softening Skin Using Channels......Page 138 Reducing or Removing Wrinkles......Page 144 Removing Hot Spots......Page 152 Balancing Skin Tones......Page 156 Reducing Stubble......Page 161 Applying Digital Makeup......Page 165 Creating Porcelain-Looking Skin......Page 176 Sharpening Portraits......Page 185 CHAPTER 3 FACE TO FACE: Reshaping Facial Features......Page 194 Reshaping the Face and Head......Page 195 Making Features More Symmetrical......Page 201 Sculpting the Face by Dodging & Burning......Page 209 CHAPTER 4 HAIR: Retouching Hair......Page 216 Adding Highlights to Hair......Page 217 Removing Stray Hair Strands......Page 221 Fixing Gaps in Hair......Page 229 Changing Hair Color......Page 234 Darkening a Part Line......Page 239 Hiding Roots......Page 242 CHAPTER 5 LIPPS, INC.: Retouching the Lips and Mouth......Page 248 Making Lips Larger......Page 249 Creating Glossy Lips......Page 252 Applying or Tweaking Lipstick......Page 257 Changing the Shade of Lip Color......Page 261 Repairing Teeth......Page 268 Whitening Teeth and Reducing Yellowing......Page 277 CHAPTER 6 SLIM SHADY: Slimming and Trimming......Page 284 Overall Slimming......Page 285 Slimming One Person in a Group Shot......Page 288 Reducing a Double Chin & Thinning the Face......Page 291 Thinning Arms or Legs......Page 296 Getting Great Abs......Page 305 Fixing Clothes (Lumps, Bagging & Folds)......Page 310 CHAPTER 7 TAKING FIVE: My 5-, 15-, and 30-Minute Retouches......Page 318 Retouching Checklist......Page 319 My Five-Minute Retouch......Page 321 My 15-Minute Retouch......Page 335 My 30-Minute Retouch......Page 349 B......Page 368 D......Page 369 F......Page 370 H......Page 371 L......Page 372 O......Page 373 R......Page 374 S......Page 375 Z......Page 376