Beauty Retouching is Portrait Advertising images usually selling Hair or Skin Products. It's also one of the popular types of Retouching but extremely difficult to get High End Professional Results.
To understand this better we will show you 3 different levels of Beauty Retouching.
Photographer & photographer Nello Johnson
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This would be considered your basically level Beauty Portrait Retouching. Such Retouching can take place in Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop. The client wanted to look natural as possible. She was a young lady with fairly good skin texture. I spent around 15 minutes Retouching this image.
Retouch In Photoshop.
Blemishes removal (scars, zits, acnes, pimples) Skin smoothening Lips color enchantment
Removing stray hair on a face, shoulders. Color correction
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Retoucher Nello Johnson
One would think this next image would be considered High End Retouching. But its not.
But why is that? Basic Level of editing is the post-production process which makes a photo look professionally retouched. This Retouch image easily falls in Pro Retouching categories but not high end. In reality ask yourself this question. Have you ever seen a woman with such perfectly beautiful skin and pure white eyes?
Professional skin editing (blemishes removal, smoothening)
Color correction
Background enhancement (solid color replacement, extending)
Stray hair removing
Face Shaping
Small objects removing
Clean Eyes.
Removing all hair on her face.
Lots of Dodging and Burning
High Sharpening
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Now we move on to High End Retouching.
High end Retouching fits perfectly in between both images above. But why is that? High end is not about how far you can take your Retouching. Its knowing when to stop. Many new Retouchers think pushing a image beyond perfect would be considered high end. But it's not. You missing the point. One very important thing to know about High End Beauty Retouching is the model. If you want high end results you need a model with good skin Tones and Texture.
So what have we learned?
Images 1 shows you more of the Photographer work. The image looks like only some color adjustment was made
Image 2 really pushing her skin. The image looks more like it belongs on a makeup box.
Images 3 hits a perfect balance of not going to far but also not doing so less.
Nowadays High End retouching is frequently chosen by professional photographers from all over the world. You can see that the image takes a more expensive and expressive form as if from the cover of a popular magazine. The name of this editing service speaks for itself: a retoucher pays attention to the details in the shot, it's not only about the basic color correction, that's why the editing is more difficult and is hard to repeat.
Writing by Retoucher and Photographer at Glamour Retouching Studios Nello Johnson