notes Professional Retouching Strategies A little good retouching is much better than a lot of poor retouching

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1 With KATRIN EISMANN Katrin Eismann is one-third artist, one-third author, and one-third educator, whose passions and responsibilities mesh perfectly; allowing her to travel, teach, write, and create images to her heart s content. She received her BFA degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts. She has co-authored: Real World Digital Photography, Web Design Studio Secrets, Adobe Photoshop Studio Secrets, and authored Photoshop Restoration and Retouching and most recently Photoshop Masking & Compositing. Her clients include Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Eastman Kodak, Nikon USA, Fuji Film, and the US Navy. She spends a great deal of time in airports waiting for flights to domestic and international destinations where she teaches and presents on a wide variety of digital imaging topics. To learn more about Katrin please visit: and (in October, 2004) A little good retouching is much better than a lot of poor retouching notes The whole point of retouching an image is to make it look convincing enough that it doesn t look retouched at all. As anyone who has used the rubber stamp tool in Photoshop can tell you, it s pretty easy to mistakenly make your image look like it was retouched with a hammer. As a portrait retoucher your role is to accentuate the person s natural features while minimizing the blemishes that can detract from a pleasing portrait. Most importantly you want to maintain the individuality of the person. Not every person will have the Hollywood ingenue s flawless skin or a lion s head of hair. So study the character of the person in the picture and decide which attributes to accentuate and which to minimize before you begin to click your mouse. 1

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