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Archive for March, 2010

Photo retouching a portrait or fashion shot. If you need  a portrait  to have punch and depth its a good idea to clean up any distracting highlights or shadows to keep focus on the centre of interest. Add some depth of field to give a long lens look which also emphasises the main focal point. Most fashion is shot with a long lens to compress the facial features which gives a more flattering look. Wide angle lenses tend to emphasise noses and other unwanted protrusions. Once the main clean up is done the retouching the portrait can be carried out, smoothing skin and tone and shaping if need be. The final stage would be add the drama to the shot by creating and HDR look or high contrast black and white or other proven technique.

My take on a HDR style portrait and portrait retouch. Many thanks to Kenzins1977 for the image.

Portrait retouching with drama and depth of field

Notes: Portrait Retouched. Skin and reshaped nose, brightened eyes, lightened face, darkened image, made HDR style, dodged and burned to enhance drama, added depth of field to simulate a longer lens.

Drama added with depth of field and HDR style processing

People ask me, “I know you do photo restorations, but do you do photo retouching as well?”

The answer is YES!

We can match one picture to another so that they seamlessly blend, correct skin tones, slim waist lines and chins and smooth out wrinkles and blemishes and re-size noses.

You can visit the retouching faces section or just contact us for details.

Don’t be bemused by the all the photo restorations on the site, we can do all the photo retouching work too!

You have probably at some stage deleted some digital files from your camera memory card. Fear not they may be recoverable if you have not performed any further camera to card actions. The best thing about this is it will cost you nothing to recover them either!

PC Inspector.de is FreeWare. I personally have been using it to recover my deleted files for many years and thought I should share it with you. The software is called PCInspector but it also recovers or restores your photos from your memory card too. At the time I was using it allot, I was working at a digital camera company where this was a regular fix. The great thing is it restored photos just as many times, if not more than the leading, paid for software!

Don’t pay get it free!

NOTE: I do not offer technical support for this photo restoration software so please don’t email me about it. If the embedded link fails then visit pcinspector.de directly.

Don’t forget to wander round the rest of the blog for other photo repair and restoration tips.

Hello everyone, continuing with the basic skills photo restoration tutorials, I have another here which touches upon matching the grain within a photo when replacing a background. You can read more about this topic in the matching grain blog post.

Remember though only replace the background if you have to! The original one restored, will look far more convincing than one you made up yourself.