So, here you go, a video of my entire photoshop session, with before & after photos. No talk, just fancy disco music. The selection process, raw, and retouch. I hope you will find it useful.
To follow I guess you just need the basic knowledge of photoshop. Then there should be no problemos. Enjoy!
I give you 60 minutes of Work in Progress:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2013
Making good skin looking…good!
Got a lot of questions regarding smoothing the skin and overall processing of my photos. Here is a quick recap of the post production.
The first one is after raw, where I now days do pretty much actually. The second is after the skin and hair work. Everything that’s not supposed to be there is gone, like red marks, cuts or whatever. I also do some cleaning up of the hair as you can see. The third step is all the color work and final touch.
The skin is never smoothed out, no gaussian blur or similar. Never use that. Do it by hand, pixel by pixel (almost). There are several iterations of this method, but I simply use dodge & burn. Some like to use the frequency separation method. But it’s all up to you.
But never ever get rid of the texture.
I give you 3-step-magic:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2013
Well, not new, of course. But for me, I have never understood how you retouch, for example, a face in videos. I mean, I do the photography good, and that includes the retouching part, but that’s just one photo. In video you have 24 per second. I just never got it how you do it, what kind of tools you use.
Here are a few awesome videos showing of some great programs.
I give you Foton Inc:
And two more I cant embed:
https://vimeo.com/22216471
https://vimeo.com/22217575
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2012
A while back ago some images leaked from Victoria Secrets. Now, the finished work has arrived. It’s simple work, yet classy. And here we can see that a great model, both in acting and beauty, is of big importance. There are mostly general touch up that’s been made. No surprises actually. ”The Angels” are great models, end of story.
I give you The Link:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2012
Here you go, some nice BTS of some great shots.
I give you Gunmen:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2012
WHAT do they actually do in the studio to get the obvious difference from what you see in the ads and what you get in your hand. Interesting, but of course, no secrets when you think about it.
I give you McDonalds secrets:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2012
Well, here is a Before & After for you. The model had almost no make up applied because of the clients needs. This was a catalog job originally and the face was cut out. But I think I just had to capture it. My initial thought was to keep the untouched face, but in the end I decided to make something else out of it. And here you can see what I did. Hope you like the peek behind the curtain.
I give you The Face of the Alba:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2012
Skin is very important in fashion and beauty. Here is a Before & After of a kind of a new photo I did of a model from Denmark. I use D&B most of the time, sometimes I separate the two in two curves layers, one for dark, and one for light. Depends on how much time I got. So, here you go, a sneak peak at what it can look like both before and after.
I give you The Love for Skin:
/// Magnus Svensson
\\\ Maz Studios 2012