Mastering Studio Portraiture

Lesson 7: Page 1 Making a Background Go Pure White

Portrait Retouching

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To start, I usually go for the big items such as the bump on here…

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You can also use the spot healing brush for wrinkles here as well. The photo…

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Here is the result of both cheek wrinkles being slightly lighter.       In…

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I will also lighten the whites of the eyes some and I use the Lasso…

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Using the Hue Saturation sliders I slide the Lighten slider ever so slightly until I…

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The next technique is to create a diffused glow that hides the textures of the…

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Then select both those layers and Group them from the layers palette .

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Another technique I have been using is the dreamy skin glow using a Gaussian blur…

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