Tag Archives: professional photo retouching

Selective Sharpening

By Paul Kerins | Published: February 2, 2012

Selective sharpening for print output. Sharpening photographs for prints is more subtle practice than sharpening JPEG or PNG files for the world wide web. Only certain areas of a photograph may require sharpening. A portrait or beauty photograph will most likely need selective sharpening, perhaps on the mouth, nose, cheek bones, hair, or eyebrows, and most [...]

Burning and Dodging, Non-Destructive Technique using a Fill Layer

By Paul Kerins | Published: November 26, 2011

How to burn and dodge in Photoshop. Back in the days before computers, blogs, digital images, and electricity ( well…, okay maybe not that far back ), photographers used a variety of special techniques in the darkroom to help their negatives reach the maximum in potential on photographic paper. Probably the most popular and most [...]

How to Use Content Aware Fill.

By Paul Kerins | Published: October 30, 2011

[ Video Tutorial ] How to use content aware fill to easily remove objects from your photographs. You should always try and find a way to remove unwanted objects in your photographs, by manually removing them first before you make the photograph, or by hiding them, by finding a different camera angle or blocking them [...]

Retouching Skin While Retaining Skin Texture.

By Paul Kerins | Published: August 31, 2011

[ Video Tutorial ] How to keep skin texture when retouching blemishes and lightening shadows, using the healing tool with the fade dialog box. The Fade Dialog Box, is one of the least well known of the tools available to Photoshop users, but it is the most powerful and exact tool for retouching skin and lightening [...]