Browse Torrents. Photo retouching: Making those gray, dull photos pop. First, I’d like to wish my sister Kirsten and my dad a happy birthday.
Love you guys! Okay… on to the topic at hand. It’s Fix-It Friday at iheartfaces. Have you ever taken a photo of a darling subject only to find that dull gray wash over it? Look at this beautiful girl. When I do kids’ portraits, I like to focus on the eyes and remove as much of the distractions around it as possible. So, how do you use Photoshop to make eyes pop, whites bright and remove distractions? Well, here’s how I do it. With the photo opened in Photoshop. Next sharpen the photo. Next, I ran an action called Martini & Olives from the Retro Actions from Red Leaf.
Flatten the layers by going to Image> Flatten (last choice on the menu).Find the patch tool on the Photoshop menu, and use it to patch out the blue vein between the girl’s eyes, and to reduce the dark circles under her eyes. Next, run the action Color Flair from MCP’s Quickie Collection. Your turn. Make Your Amateur Photos More Professional. With everyone and their grandmother having a digital camera you can make almost anybody look like a professional photographer, well, better-than-amateur at least.
You can use this simple process on almost any photo you take. Let’s start with our regular, old, point-and-shoot photo. This one was taken with a little higher-end camera, but it can still use a lot of work. First, we’re going to sharpen our image a bit using the Unsharp Mask [Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask]. We don’t want anything too drastic, so I used some low settings. Now we’re going to add a Levels Adjustment layer [Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels]. Next step is to add a Brightness/Contrast Adjustment layer [Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast]. One more adjustment layer… the Hue/Saturation Adjustment layer [Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation]. Now you can probably already see how much of a difference these few steps make. It’s a subtle change, but it usually makes the photo look nicer.
Use Photoshop To Make a Photo “Pop” By Shutterstock contributor Alexey Stiop Quality standards in stock photography are climbing ever higher, so having photos that “pop” will help your work stand out and give your portfolio an edge.
How can you create the most vivid images while preserving the maximum image quality? Let’s suppose you’re already following the advice to shoot RAW or, at the very least, turning off in-camera processing of JPEG images. Vibrance and saturation sliders during RAW conversion will only get you so far before you seriously distort pixels and produce massive artifacts. So you go out and shoot a nicely lit, colorful scene only to discover that once you’ve downloaded and converted the photo, it still looks bleak.
Here’s the recipe for making a photo “pop” in Adobe Photoshop without sacrificing image quality. 1. 2.