6 | TN Photography | Retouching Methods

Digital Imaging - Retouching - Formative 1

Task

Take 2 fashion/advertising themed images... apply retouching methods... form a polished image ready for publication or presentation to an advertising client. You must record the project on your blog

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TRIPTICH (Image 1)

The following triptych shows the original CR2 image, basic edits in Lightroom and the final photoshopped image.

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Photo: Tina Nikolovski

The following steps were taken to produce a magazine quality retouched photograph. This is the method I use everyday when editing fashion based images.

PROCESS

1. Drag Image into LR

2. The following steps in LR:

3. Export Image as a high quality, 8 bit, 300dpi at maximum size .TIFF

4. Open Image in PS

5. Photoshop process: described in layers

6. Save as PSD

7. Save as JPEG, highest quality 10, optimised

8. Duplicate JPEG, open in PS, use crop tool to resize to exactly A4

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(Steps 1-4 same as above)

5. Photoshop process: described in layers

(Steps 6-8 same as above)

TRIPTICH (Image 2)

1. Original

2. After LR Edits

3. Final PS Image

Triptich