Among the many different varieties of photography, there are also those in which advanced digital correction of the finished image is also a natural step in creating what cropping, setting the parameters of the camera and pressing the shutter. At the top of the list is undoubtedly the type of glamor photographic portrait, used in advertising, fashion and media. Where everything has to be perfect, even the most perfect images are corrected long and without mercy to the original image. Today, in the next episode series of guides “Graphics Tablet for the photographer in practice” take care of just this type of photography and the most frequently performed operations in the editing.
Portrait photography is a very broad term. They include commemorative portraits, the so-called. snapshots or portraits executed with surprise, a large subgroup of photos and journalistic reportage, the acts and images are dressed … They are stylized portraits and natural, static and dynamic. An important subset of this genre of photography, however, portraits of sophisticated, idealized, whose purpose is not faithful reproduction of the existing reality, but creating something that does not exist – the ideal. Is it the ideal beauty of the human body, or whether this body (face) is the only element which has the task to promote something else (a good example is advertising photography), it does not matter. What is important is the objective that guided the photographer and the entire staff the people working with him. A goal of this picture is free of any defects.
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photo just take care of today. Actions taken during this workshop are the daily bread of every artwork working with photos and performed on behalf of each picture editor in the magazine illustrated. Frequently, moreover, they must do much more – we will not enlarge the model’s chest, straighten the nose or perform other serious “photo plastic surgery.” However, we should be able to easily show Wams why practically all specialists in photo retouching are users of pen tablets and how this device helps them to work. And so we begin, as always, that the presentation of the topic of the workshop.
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photograph was taken in a photo studio as part of the material carried on the needs of manual work with flash light. It is an example of a fairly simple type of lighting – one lamp with a large cap type beauty dish suspended high in the mountains and one softbox brightening shadows illuminated from below. Photo is already pre-adjusted colors, contrast and exposure, and is pre-przykadrowane. To complete the remainder while all part of retuszerska.
| Camera: Canon EOS 50D /> Author class=”c27″> Lens: Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM | length: 33 mm Exposure: 1/125 sec, f/14, 100 ISO | class=”c30″> | class=”c30″> image is a fairly simple photograph, which, after appropriate treatment could become an illustration magazine article devoted to fashion publication for lovers of fantasy literature, or rather many ads. However, it requires to carry out considerable improvements. (Photo Jaroslaw Zachwieja) |
Despite the correct exposure and preparation model, image has a lot of bugs, with whom it is difficult to deal with during the session (for example, to avoid marks on the ground would require the establishment of models of shoes after take a position in front of the photographer), and therefore the most fights with them in a graphics program. They cover both the background and the model, and trinkets related to lighting. On such elements will concentrate this time, quite forgiving pretreatment step photos – it had nothing to do with the underlying theme of this series of articles. But for those who are interested, we can reveal that before importing into Photoshop photograph was adjusted in terms of exposure, contrast and color saturation in Lightroomie and slightly cropped. Not performed on it while no amendments typically retouching.
And at the end of the chapter are some very interesting fact related to the same article, while having considerable practical importance photograph is posing and certainly does not represent the real situation before taking the shot with a bow – after all, no one expects that the warrior was moving to fight in shoes high-heeled shoes, or implied or corset dress, right? However, unlike many of this type of visible images on posters, model holds a bow in the correct manner, instead of (like the poster the latest installment of “The Hunger Games”, which incidentally actress rumored for a long time practicing archery) traditionally include an arrow with your fingers. This is perhaps the detail, which many viewers do not pay attention. However, those who already pay, at best, and pitying sigh pokiwaj? head, and at worst explode with laughter – and all because the photographer did not bother to consult the pose of a model of someone who is more versed in the subject. Successful image consists of such details – we are your prudence.
Reachedhardware and software
This time also working on material for this article, we decided to use the kit, from which he could use a professional retoucher. That’s why software platform is Adobe Photoshop CS6, and used a Wacom Intuos tablet is the Pro version of the medium.
| | class=”c30″> It is difficult to imagine that the photographer line processing your images using the mouse had the freedom to choose the corresponding operating position, as a person uses the tablet. Most Indispensable tools constantly at hand, the ability to act in the most comfortable and most ergonomic posture, or the lack of any problems with the change of position when the existing begins to bother us, especially for our body neutral position of the wrist – that the advantages of working with pen tablet. |
This choice, however, had also its practical aspect – although the task ahead is fairly easy to determine (to remove the carpet for photos of all our defects), a set of used to accomplish this tool is quite extensive. So it is important the ability to set yourself as the greatest of their number at hand, and here intuos Pro series has a distinct advantage over their more amateur counterparts.
proposal software configuration
convenient work in this case depends largely on accurate predict particular we need appropriate tools and their assignment to the tablet buttons. In practice, therefore, to develop an appropriate “work environment” will require a little time and experience to handle taking of a picture on a particular topic. In this case, we knew more or less what we will need, so our job was a bit easier. In the settings changed only the eraser function of the upper button on the Move / Scroll to work with the image viewed in the larger was simpler. In the case of the control panel, the task was a bit more difficult.
| | | | colspan=”3″ class=”c30″> proposal tablet configuration settings for advanced photo retouching portraits. Under the control buttons have been collected the most useful tool in such situations toolbox . |
Let’s start with the Touch Ring. In this particular case, it was important to photoeditor have easy access to adjust brush size (keys in square brackets) and Zoom photos. In addition, as a complementary set the selection of the active layer (a combination of the [Left Alt] in square brackets). The fourth function, namely Rotate We left the default settings. Eight control buttons assigned the following functions: modifier Alt (useful when making selections), abbreviation Undo / Redo ([Ctrl] + [Z]) is used not only to withdraw an unfortunate processing, but also – and perhaps primarily – to compare the state before and after the editing operations, and Quick mask (key [Q]).
remaining five buttons have been assigned specific tools. And here you should be one explanation, which can be very useful for self-configuration of the tablet to work with Photoshop, if you want to enable a button calling all the tools that Toolbox are under the icon given by multitap (like Brush , Pencil , etc.), then ascribe to him a capital letter, or a combination [Shift] + [letter]. If you want to make this change was not possible and was only chosen a tool that is currently visible on the strip, it ascribe “clean abbreviation” ie lowercase letter without the [Shift] key. In our case, the functions assigned to the keys are tools the Mark (key [W]), Brushes prescription (key [J]), painting tools (key [B]), blurring (key necessary to define the settings menu of the program) and the brightening and dimming (the [O]).
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