Hi
Can some one give me tips or links to make my portraits look more professional.
Professional looking portraits i mean, the skin tone, the glow etc. I can handle lighting just that skin tones of my Subject is not that great.There is no glow. I do retouch i.e. using blur and layer technique but some how not enjoying the end result
Also, if you are using Photoshop CS(2), you may want to try a warming photo filter adjustment layer.
One thing I've been experiemnting with is a gothic glow action (also, on that downloadn page). I've been using the gothic glow output as a second data layer and fading it a bit.
Sample Portrait this is casual portrait i shot, i have retouched it i.e. soften the face by cutting the face and than creating a new layer and using gaussian blur filter than taking the layer to 50%
What do i have in mind?
I havent found that sample snap on net that i could show you. I will try
General, there are a number of things you could do to improve the portrait before you even worry about post processing.
Your model is standing very close to the background, which is glary and distracting. If you moved her away from it, avoided the glare and the picture, plus blurred the background , it would already look much better.
General, there are a number of things you could do to improve the portrait before you even worry about post processing.
Your model is standing very close to the background, which is glary and distracting. If you moved her away from it, avoided the glare and the picture, plus blurred the background , it would already look much better.
Beetle you are absolutely correct in your observation. i am working on different departments but no matter even with a better background i could not have achieved what i found through brad p 's link.
Any more links like the ones Brad P has posted, i liked them as they were exactly what i had in mind.
Incase no new link can some one tell me which web site to find them on
Initially used a soft brush, manual blur at about 40% on her skin, then used a light diffuse glow with no grain in a new layer, erased back the background. Did some other basic hue, saturation, levels & contrast adjustments, ran through a custom-written action I wrote for the Virtual Photographer plug-in (basically softens and adjusts colors). Took about 5 minutes to do this (if that).
There is another action called Glam Blur avalable on the atncentral site.
