Portrait Editing

Ijustwant1

Ijustwant1

Senior Member
Hello all, I am interested to know what software you use to edit portrait photos ! At the moment I have PSCS6 and Lightroom 5 and the Nik Collection ! What do you do with your photos in PP ? I am wanting to do some portrait shoots and gain some theory to put into practise ! I will look at your responses and interpret them and then post some photos hopefully in the next week ! I will be using my sweet 50mm 1.8G on the D5100 , if you look at my signature you will see my other lens , I won't be getting any more for a while yet and think that the 50 mm is the pick of my bunch ! So any tips will be appreciated ! Cheers Greg
 
wud

wud

Senior Member
I think one of the main things to do, is keeping the skin soft but the eyes, mouth and hair sharp. This can be done with mask, e.g.

Make a copy of the layer, filter -> blur -> gaussian blur, until the skin looks soft but still realistic.

Make a layer mask for this gaussian layer. With a soft brush, you paint on the mask with black, to remove the filter from the eye and so on. If you get to much of the skin, use a white brush to paint the filter back on.

1 of a million ways to do it :)
Oh and Im talking Photoshop.
 
wud

wud

Senior Member
They change the hole face proportions! Cheaters ;)

This is done as I described, I also used contrast and then I sharpened after resizing, which I now see I shouldnt have done. To tired to fix it.

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wud

wud

Senior Member
There we go - not perfect but I dont have so much patience :eek:

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ohkphoto

ohkphoto

Snow White
If you're doing portraits of women, I can guarantee that you will need "Portrait Professional" in your toolbox. It's a quick enhancing/morphing program that can "turn back the hands of time", at least on a photo. Women don't like sagging anything . . . they're very quick to hone in on the double chins, the creases, etc. . . . and the response, "but this is what you look like" doesn't sit well with them. Posing and lighting can only take you so far. We are very vain, in case you haven't figured it out. This software lets you take it as far as you want to go . . . from simple skin softening and wrinkle "removal" to taking 20 years off (too bad it doesn't work in real life)
 
ohkphoto

ohkphoto

Snow White
I had a client contact me about a photo session . . . she just got published and needed a photo for the book jacket . . . everything she had looked like the "before" pic and her words to me were exactly, "can you take 15-20 years off my face?" We did a photo shoot, I used Portrait Professional, she was thrilled and I got a really nice tip .

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Don Kuykendall_RIP

RIP :(
ohkphoto said:
I had a client contact me about a photo session . . . she just got published and needed a photo for the book jacket . . . everything she had looked like the "before" pic and her words to me were exactly, "can you take 15-20 years off my face?" We did a photo shoot, I used Portrait Professional, she was thrilled and I got a really nice tip .

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You took at least 30 years off. I did a picture of my wife that was just a snapshot but it came out great. I ran it through Portrait Professional and cleaned it up. She could not believe how great it looked and wondered how I did it.
 
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STM

Senior Member
Don Kuykendall said:
There is also a piece of software that does a pretty good job of Fixing faces.

Portrait Professional - Easy Photo Editing Software

It will soften skin, remove blemishes, remove wrinkles and sharpen eyes and whiten teeth. You have to be careful when you use it to not overdo it. Done right it can make it look like a good makeup job.
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I used to use Portrait Professional a few years ago but it often does weird really stuff to eyes (irises) and teeth and the way it distorts the proportions of the head are extremely annoying. You wind up having to cut and paste the eyes and teeth from the original image back into it to correct it. It is long gone from my computer.
 
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STM

Senior Member
ohkphoto said:
I had a client contact me about a photo session . . . she just got published and needed a photo for the book jacket . . . everything she had looked like the "before" pic and her words to me were exactly, "can you take 15-20 years off my face?" We did a photo shoot, I used Portrait Professional, she was thrilled and I got a really nice tip .

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Was this a HORROR book? Because that is some horrifying lighting in the first image!
 
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