Improving the Look of a Portrait
In this tutorial I will show you how to improve the look of a portrait image in a few quick steps. First, we need a picture. A big picture so we can make sure the details are not altered. For this tutorial I will use this picture:
To quickly edit this image, I will not use Photoshop. Instead I will use Reshade Image Enlarger that will to the job as good as Photoshop if not even better. So, here are the settings that I’ve used:
And here is the image:
At first, the difference might not look that big, but zoom in and you will see what a big difference there is:
Now let’s add some cool curly lines over the image to give it a classy effect. So, I’ve created two images, using letters from the Rothenburg Decorative font (I’ve cropped some parts from the letters R and S). Here are the images:
Import the images in the project, put them in the corners and select the blend mode to Soft Light (both of them). The final image should look like this:
Nice, I wouldn’t have realized the images you used were cutouts from a specific font. There are lots of free brush packs online that have amazing brush sets. But what you used here worked really well. Thanks for sharing this tutorial! Nice work!
Comment by Brochure Printing — April 2, 2009 @ 8:14 am
A really subtle but very effective photo retouching job. Sometimes the very subtle tweaks have a far greater result than big changes.
Comment by photo retouching — May 11, 2009 @ 12:42 pm