Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish

Follow the portrait photography master, Chris Orwig, as he walks through three start-to-finish, up-close portrait projects in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Portrait of a Legend

• Setting the stage
• Reviewing the photos
• Selecting the keepers
• Creating a collection
• Creating a strong black-and-white look
• Fine-tune the look and fix the background
• Fixing the hat
• Content-aware cropping
• Final Curves adjustments
• Wrapping it all up

2. Portrait of an Artist

• What is your vision?
• The scavenger hunt: FInding the keepers
• Choosing the final selects
• Cropping the keepers
• Converting to black-and-white look
• Fine-tune the image
• Now it’s your turn

3. Portrait of a Celebrity

• Introducing the project
• Searching for the look
• Cropping and basic adjustments
• Fixing graduated adjustment and details
• Retouching away small details
• Retouching skin tones
• Fine-tuning color and tone
• Testing out other creative ideas
• Photography your own celebrity

Conclusion

• What's next?