It’s conventional to apply skin smoothing portraits of women, but it’s also important to retain skin texture and avoid the plastic skin look. There’s usually no need to apply it to portraits of men. Don’t do this with your portraits!Ī better approach is to first decide whether skin smoothing is actually necessary.
#Basic portrait retouching movie
Portrait retouching mistake #2: Too much skin smoothingįor reasons I don’t understand photos of people in movie posters are often so over-retouched that the actors are barely recognizable. In this case you could use an Adjustment Brush to create a mask that covers the dress and increase Vibrance (which gives a more subtle result than Saturation) a little. At first you may think that your portraits don’t pop, but with a little time you’ll appreciate the more subtle approach.Įxtra tip: In the portrait above you might decide you like the saturated colors of the model’s dress but not her skin. Tip: If you’re accustomed to using saturated colors it will take a while for your eye to adjust to using less saturated hues. The colors are much softer and the model’s skin has a much better color.
The result is that the colors are deeply saturated and the model’s skin looks unnatural.įor the second (right) I set Profile to Adobe Standard and Vibrance to -10. For the first (left) I set Profile to Camera Landscape. The two portraits below show you how it works. Subtle changes in the region of -5 to -15 usually work best. Set Saturation or Vibrance (or both) to a negative value.Avoid profiles with names like Landscape or Vivid, these are not designed to be used with portraits. If you use Lightroom Classic, set Profile to either Adobe Standard or Portrait.There are a couple of ways you can take control of color in your photos. Your camera doesn’t need any help to create photos with deeply saturated colors. The subtle approach is often best when it comes to photography and that’s certainly true of color. Portrait retouching mistake #1: Over-saturating colors Do you make any of these? Don’t feel bad if you do, it’s all part of the learning process. That said, let’s take a look at the most common portrait retouching mistakes. Another is that the commercial world is full of over-retouched portraits, and it’s natural for photographers to imitate that style.
Part of the problem is that applications like Photoshop are so powerful they let you do too many things that you shouldn’t (there’s a simple solution for this I’ll discuss at the end of the tutorial). I’ve seen photographers make the same portrait retouching mistakes over and over.
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