The famous Actress Angelina Jolie is on the cover of Digital Photographer Magazine issue #79. As expected, she looks fabulous. However, you might have a different perspective after watching this video titled Sex, Lies and Photoshop and going through some examples.
In the digital age, the truth can sometimes be enhanced beyond recognition and reality is buried in the zealous pursuit of visual impacts. How wonderful it is to be able to create a perfect fantasy world.
This is a quick video showing you how to remove unwanted details from portrait. The same technique can be used for other types of photo as well. This earlier post shows you how to remove hot spots (strong reflections) from faces.
I was forum surfing at DPReview and found a nice Capture NX tip to remove dust spot. Nikon Capture NX does not have a healing brush or clone tool like Adobe Photoshop. Typically dust spot removal in Capture NX involves selecting the dust spot using lasso tool, colorizing the selected area with color that is the same as the background, blurring the edges with some feather on the selection. This neat new technique uses distortion control (Adjustment -> Correct -> Distortion Control) instead of the Colorize tool. And it works!
Nikon Capture NX has an easy-to-use red eye removal tool: RedEye Control Point. Most times it works well. All you need to do is to place a red eye control point on each of the red eyes and set the proper radius. However, sometimes it leaves a green tint and other times it doesn’t work at all. In this tutorial, I will show you a red eye removal technique that is more flexible and always works (even on monkeys). Read More…
Previously, I have showed an example of portrait retouching using Nikon Capture NX without going into the details. In this post, I am going to explain how to change eye color using Capture NX. I hope this becomes the start of a new series on portrait retouching using Nikon Capture NX. Read More…
It is not well known but Capture NX can be used for many portrait retouching purposes. In the example above, I reduced the dark circles under the eyes, changed the eye and lip colors, and removed the reflections on the nose and face.
