Photo Retouching

I retouch photographs using a Mac, Adobe Lightroom and/or Photoshop, and a Wacom tablet. Below are some examples of the various types of retouching work I produce. Roll the mouse over each image (on mobile devices, tap the image) to see the image before the correction.

Portraits

I retouch skin, hair, lips, teeth, and clothes for portraits. Skills and techniques used here include color correction, dodging and burning, minor blemish/distraction removal, frequency separation, hair clean up and removal, teeth whitening, eye enhancing, lip saturation adjustment, color grading, gaussian blur addition, selective feature sharpening.

High-Volume Color Correction

I perform retouching, conversion of color space, noise reduction, color correction, and sharpening to a high-volume of photos for different publishing projects. Below are just a few of the thousands of photos I’ve edited.

Masking

I select and mask subjects. Skills and techniques used include selection, masking, layering, alpha channels, and blend modes.

Art Reproduction

I retouched fine art reproduction for artists. Skills and techniques used are cloning, healing, background removal, perspective correction, color correction, color matching, dodging and burning, and sharpening.

Element Addition

I added the DJ logo I designed to the DJ’s timecode vinyl records in the photos I captured before the logo was produced. Techniques used are cloning, healing, layering, transforming, blurring, layer masking and use of blend modes.

Compositing

I composited multiple images together shot from the same location for an ultimately better looking image. Skills and techniques used include color correction, noise reduction, selection, curves adjustments, dodging and burning, layer masking, use of blend modes, and sharpening.