![]() ![]() Another way to accomplish a similar correction is to use the Camera Calibration controls found in Adobe Camera Raw. I like using the Diffuse Glow filter in the Filter Gallery to render an image as though it were shot using a traditional soft focus or diffusion filter.įor mundane yet important retouching techniques, such as removing redness caused by sunburn, you can add a Hue/Saturation Layer to adjust and remove the color cast. My friend Cliff Lawson, one of the finest high school senior photographers in the Rocky Mountain West, uses Adjustment Layers to create dramatic and award-winning images. While the program’s Clone and Healing Brushes are my initial retouching go-to tools, Photoshop has so many options, including monochrome conversion and artistic filters. No matter which version you use, Photoshop remains the 800-pound gorilla for portrait retouching and enhancing. So, what’s my take of the best software for wedding, portrait, and boudoir photos? I’ve gathered some of my favorites for your approval, in hopes that you can use them to make your portraits and their subjects look better.Īlthough I don’t agree with Adobe’s approach to distributing Photoshop, any version shipped after 2002, if it runs on your computer, is suitable for retouching and enhancing portraits. ![]() I think that using the right tool for enhancing and retouching portraits is no different than choosing the right lens to make that same photograph. When Photoshop introduced the Healing Brush tool in Version 7, a former colleague was aghast that Adobe was making retouching “too easy” and hated that “no skill was needed” for enhancing portraits using this tool. The following is something people tell me when I suggest using a plug-in or specialized software for enhancing or retouching portraits: “But you can do that in Photoshop!” That’s because when it comes to software for wedding, portrait, and boudoir photographs, everyone has an opinion-sometimes a strong one-even if they’re wrong. Photos © Joe Farace, unless otherwise noted The image was further tweaked using the Viveza plug-in, then converted to monochrome using Silver Efex Pro, topped off by applying the Glamour Glow filter that's part of Color Efex Pro. I did some light retouching with Photoshop's Healing and Clone Brushes, followed by applying Imagenomic's Portraiture plug-in. Camera was a Canon EOS 50D with an EF 28-105mm lens with an exposure of 1/60 second at f/4.5 and ISO 400. This model was photographed mostly using available light with fill from a Canon Speedlite 580EX II. ![]()
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