Enhancing an Environmental Portrait with Photoshop
Offered By: LinkedIn Learning
Course Description
Overview
Photographer, author, and teacher Chris Orwig details a variety of Photoshop postprocessing techniques that enhance the authenticity and mood of an environmental portrait.
An environmental portraitâone photographed in a setting that tells a story about the subjectâhas the potential to reveal something unique and interesting about the person in focus.
In this course, photographer, teacher, and author Chris Orwig explores a variety of Adobe Photoshop postproduction techniques that enhance the authenticity and mood of an environmental portrait. Working with a photograph of world-champion surfer Kelly Slater, Chris steps through each technique, from black-and-white conversion and toning to retouching and more, explaining his creative process along the way.
An environmental portraitâone photographed in a setting that tells a story about the subjectâhas the potential to reveal something unique and interesting about the person in focus.
In this course, photographer, teacher, and author Chris Orwig explores a variety of Adobe Photoshop postproduction techniques that enhance the authenticity and mood of an environmental portrait. Working with a photograph of world-champion surfer Kelly Slater, Chris steps through each technique, from black-and-white conversion and toning to retouching and more, explaining his creative process along the way.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Using Liquify to make minor adjustments
- Cleaning up small details with the Spot Healing Brush
- Removing the logo from the shirt
- Working on the details of the shirt
- Merging layers and double-checking your progress
- Burning and dodging to add emphasis
- Experimenting with color
- Creating a sepia-toned black-and-white effect
- Darkening the background
- Adding film grain
- Blending in a wood texture
- Retouching the background
- Improving the details
- Darkening the background with color
- Making final tonal adjustments
- Reviewing the final project
- Artistic reflections and goodbye
Taught by
Chris Orwig
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