Archive for November 2008
Skin Color Correction Using Photoshop CS 2 or CS 3
Have you ever take photo in dark room which light is very limited ? maybe you will get blur photo (if you don’t use flash) because your shutter speed is very slow (ex: 1/10s) and your hand can’t hold the camera within 1/10s. In order to solve this problem maybe you use flash or use studio light (if you take photo in studio) – these methods maybe solve blur problem but how do you think about the color ? As I know, when we use flash the color maybe a little bit different than original (without using flash) because of lighting effect. For potrait photo, I think the most important about the color is skin color – so in this tutorial I try to write my technique to correct skin color.
Original photo is taken by Albert Jou – I like his photos especially potrait and landscape photos – you can check his link here. Original photo can be seen below (small size), for original size please click this link.
Colorization Using Photoshop CS 2 or CS 3
Colorization is important technique in photography – especially if you like photo restoration. I know that photo restoration contains many things, not only colorization – but colorization is one important aspect in photo restoration. Colorization is important to restore color of monochrome old photo (black and white, sepia, etc).
Actually colorization process is an imagination technique – why I said this ? – as you know if you have b&w photo and wanna to make it become color photo, you need to know the original color. But how to know the original color based only b&w photo ? no way to know the original color so I think it based on your imagination – that’s why I said that colorization is an imagination technique. Since it is an imagination technique so everyone should produce different color photo based on their imagination. I think the other important aspect of colorization is style – different people should have different style or taste. It is similar with this case: I like fried chicken but you like baked chicken – although the source material is same (chicken) it will produce different taste depends on cook style. This concept is important for tutorial steps I write below.
The original photo can be seen below (small size), for large size you need to download the original photo in this link – only registered can download the file. Photo is taken by Marjolein H. – why I choose this photo? the reason is because I participate retouchpro colorization contest on November 2008. There are some color information (from retouchpro.com) that you need to obey such as hair: brown; eyes: green; dress: creamy yellow with black polka dots; necklace: black; earring: gold; background: your choice to work with the colorized image.
How to Correct Miss Focus Photo ?
Have you ever shoot an important person in your life but the result is miss focus, and you can’t get back to that time – maybe you can shoot again but not in the same moment or time. When I see some of my photos are miss focus, I feel very disappointed and ask myself “why miss… “, and wanna back to that time if it ’s possible.
In this tutorial, I try to write simple method (using Photoshop) to correct miss focus problem. Photo for this tutorial is taken by Jeffrey, thanks for him take a little bit miss focus photo so I can use it on my blog 
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Retouching Using Photoshop CS 2 or CS 3
Retouching is important technique, especially for portrait photography. Actually this tutorial is advanced step of my previous tutorial. Previously I don’t mention the step very clearly – also I don’t mention about masking, smoothing skin, sharpening in detail. I think you also need to read my previous tutorial as basic for smoothing skin and local contrast adjustment.
The photo (below) that I use in this tutorial is taken by clickjia, you also can see this photo in his flickr.
The steps how to retouch can be seen below: Read the rest of this entry »
