Comments on: The 5 min Photoshop Retouch

By: andie

andie — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:59:21 +0000

the cool thing about photoshop are there are 5billion ways to do the same task. Thanks for sharing yours!
I wanted to show how quick you can do a quick retouch to snapshots without any extra plug in.s

By: TipSquirrel

TipSquirrel — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 08:17:24 +0000

Hi Paul, thanks for your feedback.

Portrait Pro is a clever piece of kit but doesn’t allow for adjustments after the fact like layers do with Photoshop. There’s also the depth of control PS allows. In my opinion, your image looks over done and looks like it has been manipulated, using Andi’s technique the difference is very subtle. Someone once told me, the better you are the less people should know.

Andi says in her intro that this is a technique she uses on snapshots of her friends, not a glamour shoot. I would be very careful using PP on shots of your friends, they may be offended that you thought they needed it.

Finally, Portrait Pro has taken your image as a whole and adjusted the background, which means Andi’s fence is a an odd angle, so more work needs doing to straighten it.

Anyhoo… Like I say, PP is a great piece of software, but I’ll stick to just PS for now

By: Paul Szilard

Paul Szilard — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:40:07 +0000

ps: forgive me for the image quality, but it was done with a very low res sample.

By: Paul Szilard

Paul Szilard — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:38:32 +0000

Hi Andie,
First off, I hope your self criticisms were in jest because your face looks lovely and you should be very happy with it!
Now to business. I took the liberty of saving your “before” shot, and put it through Portrait Professional. Took 7 minutes. You can see the result here: http://remektek.info/tipsquirrel/asmith-tstips-4040-before-200x300_pp.jpg
Email me if you get this, and tell me what you think of the resulting pic.
Have a great day!
-paul