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Retouching old photos

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:35:46 +0000

Everyone have a bunch of old photos in their basement. About hundred years ago, when photography became popular people started saving memories on paper. But technology wasn’t so much developed and first photos where black and white. Paper is not a durable substance. A lot of old pictures hold the memory of people who lived long ago. Over time, on photographs appear scratches, crackings, color fades. Digital retouching old photos makes wonders however it is not omnipotent. The earlier picture will be restored the greater its chances to save memory. To restore old photos in the first you need a scanner. You need to scan photos with a resolution no less than 600dpi. Then scanned photos should be loaded into a special program for image processing. The most popular program for retouching old photos is Adobe Photoshop but it is not free. Alternatively, you can use the free GIMP. In order to remove the crack from the photo you need to copy in their place adjacent areas. If adjacent areas are very badly damaged we can take the necessary elements from other photographs. Starting retouching old photos find a lot of time because this process is not fast and requires carefulness and concentration.

Digital retouching price

admin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:47:45 +0000

The price of digital retouching services depends on many different factors. However, there is a classical rule. Better work should be paid accordingly. The possibilities of modern digital retouching are limitless. So before you can find digital retouching price you need to determine the requirements for the finished work. The longer the retouching process will last the higher will be its price. In digital retouching certain types of work are the most labor-intensive. These include – removal of wrinkles, smoothing hair and skin retouching. Also there is a difference in price according the purposes because it affect the quality requirements. Beauty photo retouching usually are more expensive where image retouching should be done by a professional. If you don’t want to print fixed pictures you can get cheaper photoretouch services. Sometimes an image requires photo restoration and retouching. And it can make the digital retouching price higher. Choosing retouching lab, company or studio can also affect the price as well as quality of their services. Model retouching is one of the most expensive work. Because required quality is high.

Professional retouching

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:11:31 +0000

Professional retouching - skin - before

Professional retouching is often used for high quality retouching servieces. Lets start with facial skin retouching. There are exists several skin retouching techniques. The simplest one is just to use blur tool. The advantage of this technique is its simplicity. It also can be done very fast and with most modern photo editing tools, except windows paint . The disadvantage of this technique is that the result doesn’t look natural. The second idea is to use clone stamp tool. The basic idea of this method is to clone the skin from one place to another. When you are considering which professional retouching skin method to use start from this one. Anyway, both theses methods are rudimentary and are not the best. Most of the details will be lost. If you need the professional retouch skin do not use them.

Professional retouching - skin - after

Professional retouching is not cheap. It is not just blur or copy. It is very elaborated work. To retouch one small photo it may take about one day to finish. Professional retouching techniques includes: reducing 5 O’Clock Shadow, virtual makeup, eye color change, increasing breast size.

Portrait photo retouching

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:08:49 +0000

Portrait photography is a special type of art. It requires special details care that convey the depth of the model’s character. As result the portrait photo retouching is a nontrivial task, the complexity of which is to preserve the important details and thus improve it. The development of modern computer technology and the means of image processing have created a huge number of tools to accomplish this task. Starting portrait photo retouching it is necessary to identify the key elements that should remain unchanged, as it is necessary to plan work on portrait photo retouching. For example, sometimes red eyes are the part of the image so it is not necessary to fix it.

Find cost of photo retoucher

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:14:45 +0000

How to find cost of photo retoucher? Before you’ll be able to determine the cost of retouchingyou need to determine the requirements for the finished work. It should be borne in mind that the more skilled work is more expensive. Beginner retoucher can do the job and for free for his potrfolio. The main factors that influence the cost of work are: the size of photos – the larger means more expensive. Finding cost of photo retoucher is not an easy task. The presence of colored elements also increase the cost. If you want to remove unwanted object or person from a photograph an important role in determining the price is the size of the removing object. I wish you good luck and to find cost of photo retoucher.

Free fashion photo retouching

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:20:25 +0000

Fashion photo retouching.

Usually you need to retouch some brilliant photos made with a regular digital photo camera. Fashion photo retouching has some important ideas. Don’t forget to whiten teeth. Many beginner retouchers forget to do that. Embarrassing skin color is not good too. Sharpen your nostrils and jewelry. As you know jewelry is important in fashion world. Ask to make colors bright and vivid. With red eye fixing add some mischievous look.

Free fashion retouching.

It is not easy to find free fashion photo retouching. Many people are willing to do this for you, but the main problem is to find who they are and find them. I think that beginners in retouching can make this work for you for their portfolios. Do not ask to make a flamboyant retouching. Supreme retouching is a very long and tedious to accomplish. Ask several retouchers to make this, because bad retouching wold make you look precocious. And don’t forget free fashion photo retouching is possible.

Sunshine digital retouch

admin — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:37:34 +0000

Photo retouching has many different techniques. One of them is sunshine digital retouch. Basically, it allows you to add sunshine on every photo. Many photos have problems with lights. It’s not a trivial task to make photos with great light. So, this is where sunshine digital retouch come. Once I added sunshine to a very old photo that had been shot about fifty years ago with bad weather condition. I used sunshine digital retouch and photo became much more attractive then before. This is one of the most used effects. It’s also possible to add a rising sun to every photo.

Disadvantages of retouched photos

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:58:59 +0000

The last post was about advantages of retouched photos. Now I want to write about disadvantages of them. Retouched photos are creating an illusion of an ideal world. The world with perfect skin, perfect body shapes, perfect colors. Watching hollywood celebrities people start thinking that they are ugly compared to them. But it is only photoshop. There are many examples online of celebrities before and after retouching, look at them and you would be able to see all disadvantages of retouched photos. Many people are trying to make themselves as photoshopped stars hurting their health.

Advantages of retouched photos

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:09:52 +0000

There are many people using the advantage of retouching photos, even magazines are known for retouching their pictures. Are you aware of the advantages of retouching photos? Here is a brief list of such advantages:

* Red Eyes:
One of the most annoying and common problems that you are going to find in photos are “red eyes”. If you want to make that disappear, it can be done with no problems whatsoever.

* Blurry Image:
If your picture is blurry, the sharp tool can make great changes until your image is better. Forget about blurry images for good.

* Fix Lighting:
It was late afternoon and you forgot to use the flash when you took your picture. Don’t worry; the lighting can be fixed too. Pictures can get lighter or even darker when retouching your pictures.

* Undesired objects:
You thought you had the perfect picture until you saw something horrible in the background. Well, you can get rid of that problem too and make it look like nothing was there in the first place.

* Wrinkles, moles, acne and freckles:
If you want your skin to look better and you want to remove those imperfections, retouching is the answer for that.

People on photos with not fixed red eyes looks like a bunch of hunting zombies. Isn’t it the first advantage of fixing it? All photos in magazines are retouched. Cosmopolitan, Men’s health, Maxim – they all do retouching. You can not look younger in life, but on a photo you can. I can name a really big number of advatages of retouched photos. That wrinkles looks much more attractive when they are inside you, not outside. Photos that has been made in 19th century need retouching. Usualy they are black and white, with dim elements.