Jane Conner-Ziser

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11 months ago

Portrait Retouching / Removing Unwanted Facial Hair

Camouflaging Unwanted Facial Hair / Jane Conner-ziser Good portrait retouching has more to do with backgrounds, bodies, clothing, hair and enhancements than smoothing skin and removing wrinkles. As people age, they know what their faces and bodies look like. They might not like what they see, but they know. A good retouching artist knows what human beings collectively like and don’t like [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching / Tools for Removing Spots

Portrait Retouching / Removing Spots from Skin  Jane Conner-ziser Retouching Skin isn’t a global operation. Some things need to be removed, other things should be softened and reshaped, but other things should be left alone. Take wrinkles, for instance. Some wrinkles are so deep in contrast that they draw attention away from the eyes and will look more graceful if they are lightened a [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching / Shaping Bodies With Liquify

Portrait Retouching / Shaping Bodies With Liquify Jane Conner-ziser The first step in actual retouching is to prepare the body. Everyone looks at their bodies first in photographs and then to see if their face and expression also looks good. There are two processes in Photoshop that are essential when working with bodies, Liquify and Puppet Warp. Both allow you to distort the image, but they work [...]

1 year ago

The 5 Lights of Nature

Aloha! We are interjecting in our retouching series this article on lighting. It's an important but simple tutorial that will help you create depth, drama and polish to your photography, retouching and painting. The Five Lights of Nature are values that artists and photographers use to create the feeling of depth and drama in two-dimensional output. Each of the 5 lights has characteristics that [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching / Analyzing the Face

Portrait Retouching / Facial Analysis Every face is different and requires unique approaches to retouching in order for the work to be appropriate for the face, the style of photography and the end goal for the image. Faces are retouched differently depending on whether the portrait is for photojournalism, family portraiture or fashion. In this session we will examine a face and discuss the [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching / Wacom Tablet and Pen Exercises

Mastering the Wacom Pen The Wacom tablet is a MUST HAVE for anyone who seriously wants to do retouching or digital painting. It’s the difference between creating art with a pen or a potato and I am serious when I say that if I didn’t have my tablet and pen, I would not do digital retouching at all. It would be like trying to make a living fishing with a shovel. That being said, many [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching: Tools and Options

Portrait Retouching / Photoshop Tools and Options  Real retouching requires mastery of a variety of Photoshop tools in order to create the best possible results in the minimum amount of time. It’s been my experience when training large groups of artists, like in color labs, that most of the artists are very good and can create artwork that looks very similar in finished result BUT one [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching Guidelines

  These retouching guidelines are by no means written in stone. They are just things to consider while you are retouching different age groups. Look for these things and then decide what you should or should not do about them. It’s easy to overlook small things, like blemishes in the eyebrows or a hair sticking out of a nostril. This list is more of a reminder of what to look for and [...]

1 year ago

Portrait Retouching: What it is...and isn't

What Professional Retouching is (and isn’t) Hi everyone at Pixiq! It’s great to be here and I hope I will be providing some interesting insights into my world of pro retouching. I work with all kinds of photography, from snapshots to fine art images and I’m not a snob when it comes to retouching photos; I’ll work on anything if I feel I can make it better and more [...]

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