I thought it might be fun to post before and after versions of this photo as an example of the amount of PP that goes in to a shot like this. The first photo is only resized for web and converted from RAW to Jpeg.... so basically exactly how it came out of the camera.
The second photo has my usual PP workflow for portraits:
1. Initial sharpening
2. Levels adjustment
3. Woody's Beautiful Skin Tutorial which in this example includes massive amounts of detail work with the healing and clone tools as well as a very minor blur layer.....I think the final opacity setting was about 15%)
4. Iris lightening via Dodge tool
5. Teeth whitening with sponge tool
6. 15% contrast bump in CS3 Beta
7. Resize to 800 on longest side for web
8. USM to de-cloud the image (amount 10%, pixels 50, threshold 3)
9. Smart Sharpen (amount 70%, radius 0.3, Remove Gaussian Blur)
Jpeg conversion with color space assignment to SRGB Profile
BEFORE:
AFTER:
The second photo has my usual PP workflow for portraits:
1. Initial sharpening
2. Levels adjustment
3. Woody's Beautiful Skin Tutorial which in this example includes massive amounts of detail work with the healing and clone tools as well as a very minor blur layer.....I think the final opacity setting was about 15%)
4. Iris lightening via Dodge tool
5. Teeth whitening with sponge tool
6. 15% contrast bump in CS3 Beta
7. Resize to 800 on longest side for web
8. USM to de-cloud the image (amount 10%, pixels 50, threshold 3)
9. Smart Sharpen (amount 70%, radius 0.3, Remove Gaussian Blur)
Jpeg conversion with color space assignment to SRGB Profile
BEFORE:
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