Dennis Dunbar 
Glaring hot spots can be like the plague when it comes to shooting portraits. All too often the circumstances of the shoot don’t allow the luxury of time to reposition lights or apply makeup to resolve the problem. Crammed settings, and packed time frames get in the way, leaving us to have fix these issues …
By using this simple test you can see for yourself just what detail might be getting lost when you scale & save your high res images using a lossy format, such as JPEG.
What do you do when the person you’re shooting is wearing glasses and you’ve caught some reflections and glare in the lens? Fortunately there is a relatively simple way to deal with this in Adobe Photoshop so your portrait can shine without that distracting glare.
Portraits of seniors can serve as great examples of celebrating the experience of those folks who have lived life well. As it turns out, the experience of living life well can show up as dark age spots that can distract viewers from seeing the better side of senior life. Fortunately, we have a “time machine” …
Seasoned Pros know how critical it is to double, or even triple check their retouching to make sure they haven’t missed anything. Over the years of working as a high-end retoucher I’ve traded lots of “war stories” with my other retoucher friends and, inevitably, we all have one or two stories about how some small …
It is said the eyes are a window to a person’s soul, which makes them so very important when it comes to shooting and retouching a portrait. After all the retouching, blemish fixing, and color correction steps are done oftentimes adding a little dash of light into the pupils helps give a bit of life …
Ask any retoucher what their number one nemesis is and they’ll probably say “Banding!”, those curving lines separating each band of color as the tones go from light to dark. These bands are caused when each step in color stands there screaming for attention. They taunt us while we endlessly work to chase them away. Kind …
Beauty retouching is all about beautiful, flawless, perfect skin, and there are many, many retouching techniques shared on the web for achieving that beautiful skin. But after using your favorite technique to give the model’s skin that smooth, perfection there is one more step before you’re done: giving the skin a nice glow. Healthy, beautiful skin …
