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If you are not after photo restoration perhaps its photo retouching instead? The skills of a Photoshop artist should not just be limited to restoration of old photos, but everything. This helps the digital artist perfect their skills using many different techniques, many of which can be used across a wide range of imaging tasks. Some photo restoration techniques can be used in photo retouching and vice versa.

Below is an example of retouching and balancing out the proportions of a models face. Retouched using Photoshop, not a plug-in designed to do the job for you. These result in a clinical less natural retouch, without the fine control you get when you do it the right way.

Photo restoration skills can be applied to photo retouching too

Full face detail of photo retouching

A list of retouching that was performed:-

• Blemishes removed
• Any wrinkles (hardly any)
• Toned down any blueness where veins show through
• Hair – Hairline darkened to left to balance the face, Patch of hair added to forehead, Few stray hairs removed
• Fix odd shadows and distractions
• Face shaping, nose and jaw
• Skin Smoothing (without losing any detail)
• Eyes – Added eyelashes, removed contact lens edges, sharpening of eyes, catch lights added for extra punch
• Lips – Smoothed lips, lip colour and high lights, smile evened out
• Check adjust colour tone
• Sharpen

Skin close up

Face retouching uses the clone tool, healing brush tool (quite a lot), clone to darken and clone to lighten, blending modes, and shadow correcting much like restoring an old photo. Sure you’ll use one more than others but trying your hand at other types of Photoshop wizardry will help you as a well rounded artist.

A simple montage of an overweight cow and a dragon fly who cant believe his eyes.

I hope you liked my photoshop gallery this week and there will be more in the future.

Back to photo restoration posts once again for next few posts, stay tuned.

This is day 5 of photomontage week.

This image is simply a water tower tied in a knot! It was an entry into a worth1000 photoshop competition but that entry I forgot to upload the version that contained the shadows (that will teach me to work late into the night!!) It only came 11 out of 18! This is the version with shadows. If you are thinking this is not a montage, think of it as a montage of the same image, bits of it used over and over to make the final image.

Another one tomorrow…