Portrait retouching in photoshop5/21/2023 Select the White Balance Tool (Figure 6.2) and click on the gray background. Let’s start off by correcting the white balance in the picture. Because this is a RAW file it will open in Camera RAW (Figure 6.1).Ģ. Starting in Photoshop, go to File > Open and navigate to the 06_raf.dng file. Right, enough of my ramblings, let’s get to work…ĭownload all the files you need to follow along step-by-step here.ġ. I honestly believe having personal projects has helped me develop my photography and post-production/retouching skills by keeping me excited and always looking to learn more. If you’re interested in seeing the behind the scenes documentation showing how I did this portrait there’s a post on my website at the following URL: While we’re on the subject of personal projects, I haven’t mentioned them yet, but they’re something I highly recommend you do. We’ll be working on a photograph of a Royal Air Force Pilot from my on-going 1940s World War 2–themed project. From there we’ll take our image file into Photoshop. We’re going to start in Camera RAW with the RAW file, but if you use Lightroom feel free to start there because the workflow will be pretty much identical. Knowing a number of different techniques means that if one doesn’t work well, you can find another in your Photoshop Toolbox that does. I mentioned in the beginning of this book that I highly recommend you learn a number of techniques that will give you the same or very similar results because there isn’t one technique that will work well on every picture. In this chapter we’re going to step things up and go through a complete portrait retouch from start to finish so that we can see how techniques work together to produce a final print-ready picture. This excerpt is from the book The Photoshop Toolbox by Glyn Dewis.
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