Shoot RAW ALWAYS Shirt a mess, hair a mess, either open or close the mouth, not in between. LOOK CLOSELY, HER MOUTH IS SLIGHTLY OPEN. ODD, VERY ODD.

Clothing off. See wrinkle on side. Hair okay clone out bad wind curl up top, could clone from other photo with better hair. Eyes okay. Neck strained. Odd finger nail polish, best to crop out.

Skin Enhancements Again, shoot RAW. Open in PS. Play with contrast and reduce clarity a touch, unless you shot with a long lens and low f stop. I shot 85mm, F 3.5 or so. 85 is okay. But not great. Should have shot 200 mm to flatten the face, reduce nose, widen and enlarge eyes.

RAW section Lose some detail through luminance. But don t go overboard.

RAW section If you didn t shoot long lens, mimic long lens. This actually makes the person look better without completely changing their features. Short lens gives a horse like appearance to all models. Don t overdo as you will get that alien like high forehead look. Which doesn t market models well.

Next Open Image. Recrop to rid odd edges due to changing your lens through RAW. Model portfolio size is normally 9x12 inches. Top is bulky, adds weight, arms are odd. Noting odd hair issue up top. Clone that out.

Bandage out imperfections. Duplicate layer in case you make a mistake. Clone out bottom part of under eye skin. But don t clone it all, otherwise you get this weird plastic look. Change opacity to 60%, yes, take it from the cheek below. Note cosmetic ads, pores under the eyes are not a reality, but are found in cosmetic ads. THESE ARE NO LONGER HUMAN. Note blue area, I didn t touch. She needs to look SOMEWHAT human. Left the moles that is her face, but bandaged out her pimples.

Go into layer>duplicate layer. Go into window>layers to get the layers window to show up. In layers window, change normal to overlay.

Keep the pointer onto the background copy, then press control I on a PC, learn how to invert this on an apple. Sorry, I have a PC.

Go into filter, other, high pass. Stay around 5-10 pixels, the older the person the higher the number. This is a young person, so am sticking to around 8.5

Okay it. Filter, Gaussian blur, and pick something between 0-5. This is inverted so the higher you go the more in focus. She s a young kid so going with 5 out of 5. Okay it. No photo for this, pretty straight forward. Next step on next page.

Add a layer mask. On a pc go with alt click while the arrow is on the first layer (the greyish one), you will get a black mask. Make sure in the swatches that the first one is white.

Pick a brush and paint over the skin. What will happen is the soft part under this will come forward. Click and paint. The black mask on the side will show you what you just painted. Then go into levels and change the levels up to bring in contrast. Image/adjustments/levels.

Needing to go softer? Use diffuse glow. Click onto the 2 nd swatch, see red at bottom. Choose color picker, pick the lightest part of the forehead. Go lighter even, just not porcelain.

Go into filters/distort/diffuse glow. Leave the levels as follows, grain, 0, you don t need grain, glow amount 1, otherwise you get all 80 s, clear amount the lower you go the more you get. A young person with skin you just fixed? Stay around 14 or 13. Older with tons of shine? Go to 9 or 10. Male? Don t bother. As for going porcelain? No. It isn t 1984 Yes, I know, eyeliner is horrific. Play in levels to look more fashion oriented.

Hair too dark after levels? Go into image, adjustments, highlights and shadows to correct that.

Final

Fashion Photography It s 1.5 hours of hair and makeup. It s 30 minutes of lighting based on face shape. No cheekbones? Butterfly lighting. Bad skin? Flat lighting. Great skin and cheekbones? Rembrandt for the NY market, for Canada? Flattish lighting. Then, 1-2 hours of photoshop minimum. Then darken the results in levels to make it appear that hey, this is what the person looks like. Ummm no, I don t think so

NY VS. Canada Skin tones. Guess which is which?

But my market / look is NY bound Go into image, adjustments, b/w and darken the skin tones. Re level all.

No, I m really a model out of Toronto, Canada.

A B C Fail 0 Lighting was excellent, key shifting and flash fill well balanced with background. Lighting was done well, key shifting and flash fill well balanced with background. Lighting was okay, key shifting and flash fill well balanced with background. Needed a lot of help with this. Not done or done terribly. Didn t listen to the lecture and expected the teacher to do all. Plagiarized? Unsure, but didn t have a RAW file to prove otherwise if questioned Expression strong. Excellent movement. Expression strong. Good movement. Expression good. Okay movement. PS complimented movement well. Looked realistic. Not overdone. No help needed. PS complimented movement well. Looked real. Not overdone. PS a bit sloppy, somewhat overdone. Excellent clarity on the main person. Great clarity on the main person. some clarity on the main person. Colors and skin tone fantastic and enhanced properly in PS using color channels and levels. NOT OVERDONE. Canadian commercial skin tones. Colors and skin tone correct and enhanced properly in PS using color channels and levels. NOT OVERDONE. Canadian commercial skin tones. Colors and skin tone correct and enhanced properly in PS using color channels and levels. NOT OVERDONE. Canadian commercial skin tones. Needed a lot of assistance. Worked well as a team member. Was a team leader. Worked well as a team member. Fooled around when I came by.