Amateur Photographer

Effortlessly perfect portraits

If you shoot portraits, it’s inevitable that at some point you’ll need to retouch them in one way or another. We’re not talking about plastic-looking skin which is still common in the advertising world, but rather it may simply be gentle skin smoothing and the removal of a blemish; something that isn’t a permanent fixture on your model’s face.

Retouching portraits can be as simple or as complicated as you like, with varying degrees of intervention ranging from just the quick removal of the odd blemish to full skin smoothing using frequency separation retouching techniques.

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