For years now I have been keeping a secret from all of you guys.
It is the secret that makes sure that my images live up to your expectations.
It is the secret that delivers quality. Without it I am nothing.
….And today, I am ready to show you it.
Let me know what your retouch secret is in the comments 😉
love it! u have an eye for beauty. I truly believe you little doggie helps a lot with editing as do my three cats…its an animal thing lol
I know that you are a great photographer, but I just watched this video and aside from the fact that what you were doing was speeded up, it looked like a long process which was no faster than what I do. I do some touchup with PS, some with Portrait Pro (no canned profiles), and some work with nik plugins. I spend between 3 minutes and 20 minutes per image based on my perception of the model and what I want the image to reveal.
I believe the whole process took me half an hour 😉 Plugins are a great way to cut corners for sure, but I enjoy the absolute control and understanding of every tool. It gives you power to do stuff that isn’t standard like this retouch. This one was made purely as a parody of a Dani Diamond tutorial he made, where he’s dancing while working 🙂 I intentionally made the image very Dani Diamond-ish, so I experimented quite some. I would never do this for a photo normally 🙂
Maybe I should do a speed retouch of something I actually feel for 😀