Retouching In Motion: Hair and Skin Retouching Timelapse (2 hrs in 8 minutes)

Ever wonder what photo retouching really is? Here's a video that will give you an insight about what goes into retouching and cleaning up a photograph. It's not blurring or airbrushing skin, and there's no magic button. Half of the time, you won't even know an image is retouched when it's done correctly and that's what it should be. It should what a person looks like on their best day, realistic yet natural and full of visible skin texture. This is for people in the industry as well as outside of it, to bridge the gap of understanding what it's really about amid the bad media out there.


Downloads:
Here's a before/after crop of the final iamge:
http://postimg.org/image/aakrotddf/full/


Technical:
Here is a recent retouching timelapse video I made to showcase a non-destructive and simplified workflow, using primarily healing, cloning, dodge and burn, and color correction to execute a final image.

The intention of this video is:
To show people not educated in retouching about what goes into cleaning up skin and hair and the length of time it may take in a quick overview.
To show creatives who might be looking to see how other retouchers work to clean up an image without being destructive.
For fun!


Thanks to media usage from:
Photographer Thomas Sønderup
(http://thomassonderup.com/)

Music used with written permission from Max M. (Vira Maina)
  / viramaina  

Tools:
Processed in Capture One Pro 8.2 and retouched in Adobe Photoshop CC

Education:
For education on learning retouching, I have a full (slowed down!) course on www.theretouchingseries.com.

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