Photo Retouching, Digital Image Retouch
Picture retouching is a mild form of restoration. Retouching is done to improve a photograph, it's not as extensive as a restoration and my still contain a number of flaws after retouching is done, but the photo is considerably improved. orderartwork.com will retouch your photo when it isn't actually damaged but needs a few adjustments such as color balancing, red-eye or other minor repairs to improve it.
By using our photo technique, you can enhance your old photograph to a brand new photo. orderartwork.com enhances your photographs, by smoothing the backgrounds, adding vibrant colors and removing unwanted objects.
If you are looking to retouch up your old, moldy, scratched or torn photographs, orderartwork.com photo retouching services can safeguard your photos for generations to come. orderartwork.com retouches up services include the following:
1. Background replacement.
2. Eye, skin or hair color changing.
3. Brightening of colors.
4. Heavy crease removal.
5. Adding colors to the faded areas.
6. Making photographs small or large.
Photography's Digital Possibilities - Retouching
Retouching or touching up a photo can easily be done in modern image editing software. One of the popular programs is Adobe's Photoshop, which this tutorial is based on. Other programs have similar tools and can be used in the same way. In fields such as photojournalism and documentary photography, retouching and image alterations should be used very moderately.
Why retouching?
Retouching is typically used to remove spots and blemishes in a photo, resulting from dust and dirt on the lens and sensor. It can also be used to remove unwanted details in your photo such as for instance those small pieces of litter that you didn't notice when you took that nice landscape picture or the skin imperfections on the cute photo model you've just made a stunning portrait of.
Using the 'clone stamp' and 'healing brush' tools is straight forward. With the 'clone stamp' tool you first select a reference point from where you want the image pixels copied. You then proceed to 'paint' over your unwanted spots like you were using the 'paintbrush'. It is best used on large, uniform areas of your image where there's no significant difference in color or texture. If that's not the case, the 'healing brush' usually provides a better option. It's used in the same way, but takes into account the color and texture around the spots you're trying to remove. Most of the time it will remove the spots with a single 'stroke of the paintbrush', leaving no trace of rework.
Another couple of great tools for retouching is the 'burn tool' and the 'dodge tool'. The 'burn tool' is used to make bright areas darker and the 'dodge tool' for making dark areas brighter. Set the % ratio to something like 20% and the brush size to whatever is appropriate for your specific purpose. The neat thing is you can select between working on shadows, midtones or highlights only. It's a common problem that the sky is overexposed, but quickly swiping the 'burn tool' over the white sky (having selected to work on highlights) makes it light grey, as if it was overcast. For portraits, the 'dodge tool' is excellent for making teethes in the smiling mouth more white. Since the tools preserves any texture, it looks more natural than actually starting to paint things grey or white.
The 'sponge tool' is also useful for saturating or de-saturating certain parts of your photo. As with overexposed areas, strong colors draw our attention to them. Use the 'sponge' to attract more attention to the important parts of your photo and away from the distracting things in the background. And as with all digital alterations, use it moderately, not more than what is just needed. Less is more.
Chromatic aberration effects and chromatic noise resulting from high ISO setting on the camera can be a pain to deal with. Noise can be removed with special plug-in filters such as NoiseNinja (new Photoshop models have noise removal build in and it is getting more and more common), but they leave everything a little less sharp. Another option is to tediously retouch away at miniscule details all day long. But there is a little combination that works just short of magically when it comes to chromatic disturbances, try it out: First go to 'Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur' and set the radius to approximately 7 px. This will of course make your image completely blurred. But then go to 'Edit > Fade Gaussian Blur' and select 'Mode = Color'. You're not going to believe what happens until you try it yourself. The sharpness is restored and all chromatic disturbances have disappeared! It tend to leave your image with a little less color saturation, but this is easily taken care of in 'Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation'. You might also want to check for other artefacts. If you find any, they are now easily removed with the 'clone stamp' and healing brush' tools described above.
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