In this tutorial I'll show you a quick and unique approach to fixing rough skin texture and pores while retaining the desirable skin texture that keeps the image looking natural and professional. There are a few steps involved in this process so I've created an action for you that keeps things simple and intuitive. The action can be downloaded here.
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How to Easily Correct Colors and Match Tones in Photoshop
In this tutorial I'll show you a unique approach to correcting mismatched colors quickly and intuitively. Unlike some of the other tools available to you such as curves, selective color or hue/saturation, this approach requires very little guesswork and is largely automated thanks to the corresponding action provided here. Big thanks to my buddy Brock McFadzean for he[...]
How to Quickly Remove Stray Hairs in Photoshop
In this tutorial I'll show you a shortcut for removing stray hairs from a background. This trick will work well if the background is a seamless paper with a tonal gradation across it, or is blurred out due to shallow depth of field. If your background has a lot of detail or texture in it then the technique will not work. Another situation you may run into problems is [...]
Complete Guide to Eye Retouching
In this series of video tutorials I'll be taking you through some of the most common techniques used for retouching eyes in both beauty shots and portraits.
The series is broken down into five parts and spans nearly an hour in length. We cover a wide variety of tools in the process (most available in Photoshop CS3 and onward) including:
Frequency separation
H[...]
The Best of 2013
With the year drawing to a close it's time once again to reflect on the year and pick some of my favourite photos that I shot in 2013. With a mix of landscape, architecture and portraiture, these are listed here in no particular order as I would be hard pressed to rank them given the variety of genres.
1. Breaking Through
My 2013 list would be incomplete if I didn't[...]
How to Retouch Lips in Photoshop
In this video tutorial I'll show you some tips and tricks for retouching lips in portraits or beauty shots. Note that this is a more advanced tutorial that assumes you have a good working knowledge of Photoshop tools already.
Lip retouching can be one of the most tedious and time consuming parts of the image so my goal here is to give you some advice on where to st[...]
Dark Skin Beauty Photography
As a complement to my previous posts on beauty photography (part 1, part 2), I thought I'd further elaborate by going over a real life example from a shoot I did last week. This one is also made a little bit more interesting by virtue of the fact that I got to work with a dark skin model, which has subtle impacts on both the lighting and retouching processes.
T[...]
Natural Outdoor Portrait Retouching Tutorial
This is the second in a two part tutorial on retouching outdoor portraits and retaining a natural look using Adobe Photoshop. In the first part we looked at fixing hair and making the skin look great using frequency separation and dodging and burning. In this part we will be finishing the image with sharpening, toning, refining details like the eyes and hair as we[...]
Natural Outdoor Portrait Retouching Tutorial
This video is the first in a two part tutorial on retouching outdoor portraits and retaining a natural look using Adobe Photoshop. In this first part we will focus on fixing hair and making the skin look great using frequency separation and dodging and burning. Part 2 will look at sharpening, toning, refining details like the eyes and hair as well as adding some s[...]
Shallow Depth of Field in Studio Portraits
Who doesn't love a portrait with a nice, creamy shallow depth of field? It's certainly a look that I love and use often. While its application is fairly straightforward outdoors under natural light, in the studio things become a bit more tricky. Typically when shooting in the studio with strobes, we'll close down our f-stop to around f/11 to cancel out the ambient[...]