Photo Enhancing

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Hey John,

I enjoyed looking at your before and after shot. Do you have a site as well with other images?

I'm at http://www.PBImages.com I do enhancements as well.

Paul Berube

-- Paul Berube (paul@PBImages.com), June 02, 2001

Answers

Paul,

I've seen your site (a very nice site which I see you have expanded significantly). (I think I found it from a post of yours on the Fashion Only Forum?) I'm just getting started with teaching myself retouching. This is the first thing I've done that I think worked without drastically affecting the quality of the image. It was after reading an article about Helene Delillo (www.dancingicon.com for others who might be interested), that I started to realize just how important retouching is to the finished product. I don't really have any intention of becoming a retoucher for hire, but right now I can't afford to send any work out. I'm mainly concentrating on techniques that would be useful for enhancing wedding shots, since that's they way I hope to make a living in the near future.

The only other shot I seriously attempted to retouch was this one (http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=181925). The model had some very bad acne, and the only way I could figure out to get rid of it also elminated most of the detail in her skin. However, for the low-res offset printing of her headshot, it seemed to work fine. (I'll see if I can find the "before" image.)

I post miscellaneous shots on Photo.net (http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=14701) and have a site (mainly for wedding photography) under construction at www.johnkantor.com.

-- John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com), June 03, 2001.


I checked out the retouched photo and you did a great job. The most important thing to remember is to follow the correct lightng and perspectives in the shots. (Which you did) It's also good to save before and after's cause it's easy to over retouch- so you can go back if you go too far- Helene!

-- Helene DeLillo (helene@dancingicon.com), August 13, 2001.

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