With a clear understanding of a commercial portrait industry expectations, develop a plan for your retouching process using markup in Photoshop. Follow retoucher, Patrik Naik, as he examines areas across skin, hair and wardrobe that will require detailed attention during the retouching process. Learn to examine every detail across the subjects face with precision and balance to create professional, clean portraits.
After creating a game plan with markup in Photoshop, begin your RAW processing for a corporate, commercial headshot. Using Capture One, balance color, exposure, dynamic range across shadows and highlights to position the RAW image at the highest quality possible for retouching in Photoshop. Adjus...
With the RAW processing complete, begin the retouching process for your commercial portrait headshot. Using your game plan, cleanup fly aways, under eyes, and a variety of other distractions across the subject. Use the markup layer as reference as you retouching using a fast and efficient workflo...
After completing the skin cleanup pass, transition to creating a polished, even and dimensional skin tone. In this section, leverage the power of Photoshop Actions to expedite your workflow, while maintaining quality and control over the appearance and file integrity of your images. Use Patrik Na...
