This Photoshop tutorial discusses how to use Curves adjustments and masking to correct brightness and shadow flaws in a photograph. Watch more at www.lynda.com This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter five of the Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching course presented by lynda.com author Chris Orwig. The complete Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching course has a total duration of 6 hours and 4 minutes, and explores techniques for reducing wrinkles, enhancing eyes and other facial features, improving hair, retouching makeup, and reshaping portions of a portrait using transformations, the Warp tool, and the Liquify filter. Photoshop for Photographers: Portrait Retouching table of contents: Introduction 1. Getting Started 2. Removing Distractions in the Frame 3. Making Creative Image Adjustments 4. Improving Skin 5. Improving the Shadows and Highlights 6. Reducing Wrinkles 7. Enhancing Eyes 8. Cleaning Up Eyelashes and Eyebrows 9. Retouching Lips 10. Whitening Teeth 11. Improving Hair 12. Adding and Changing Makeup in Photoshop 13. Advanced Skin Smoothing 14. Enhancing Shape and Structure in Images Conclusion
The British Journal of Photography has published two articles about photographers using the iPad and Apple’s App Store to make money from their work. In one, publisher Michael Mack explains the logic and challenges of producing photography books for tablets. Meanwhile National Geographic photographer Michael Nichols explains why an attempt to update his website ended up with him selling an app through Apple’s store. (BJoP via PetaPixel)