Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Some retouching tutorials

I have been watching this Digital Retouching video tutorial for quite sometime now and I want to share this with everybody (well for those who doesn't know this one yet) It came from one that I looked up in photo retouching Ms. Carrie Beene, I find it so simple and easy to follow compare to other retouching tutorial from youtube so I decided to share it here.

Some background: Carrie Beene has been retouching professionally since 2000. She has worked in or freelanced for many of the major retouching houses in NYC.  In 2005 she formed Otto Imaging, LLC. And now retouches through OTTO and CarrieNYC. Carrie has retouched for M.A.C., Revlon, Maybelline, Elizabeth Arden, L'oreal, Chantecaille, DEVA, Shape Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Elle, Glamour, Vogue, W, OK Magazine, Paper, V magazine, Vanity Fair, ID, Allure, Arena and many top NYC Beauty and Fashion Photographers. 
 She regularly do LIVE retouching tutorial for RetouchPRO.com together with Cris Tarantino, Amy Dresser and some other guys.

It's a simple clean retouch but it's very useful and informative since she discuss some PS shortcuts and color correction and her style of dodge and burn.
The video consist of 3 parts; Details, glamour retouching and color correction. Here's the link to the tutorials.

You check out here works here.

Enjoy


Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Retouching error?

Just got this from Model Mayhem "Emma Watson Now a One-Legged Wonder", the article is about Emma Watson, the young lady star of the movie Harry Potter who somehow lost her right limb on one particular photo for Burberry SS2010 ad. There are some discussion on Model Mayhem whether  if it's a big retouching error some or just about the angle or bad posing direction. I saw Mario Testino Portfolio online (he's the photographer of this picture) and his works are magnificent so I assumed he commissioned somebody to retouch this image. What do you think?

Here's the article