This is me! I did some self portraits during quarantine. The original image is “straight out of camera” and first I brightened the exposure overall, specifically in the shadows and added some warmth. The camera on a tripod caught the edge of the studio light and a bit of the living room beyond the seamless background and easily created more background. I did some light stray hair retouching. I wanted a light skin retouch so that some details, lines and blemishes are eased, softened and less obvious. It’s important for me that I not go too far as to lose good natural skin texture. I did a little clean up to hairs and lines in skin at the neck. Just a little teeth whitening too.
What was retouched?
- Adjust exposure bring up brightness, shadows and add warmth
- Remove studio light
- Expand background
- Remove stray hairs
- Smooth skin
- Under eye smoothing
- Remove blemishes
- Clean up neck creases
- Whiten teeth
