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Professional Retouching StrategiesWith KATRIN EISMANN

Katrin Eismann is one-third artist, one-third author, and one-third educator, whose passions and responsibilities mesh perfectly; allowing her to travel, teach, write, and create images to her heart’s content. She received her BFA degree in Photographic Illustration from the Rochester Institute of Technology and her MFA degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts. She has co-authored: Real World Digital Photography, Web Design Studio Secrets, Adobe Photoshop Studio Secrets, and authored Photoshop Restoration and Retouching and most recently Photoshop Masking & Compositing. Her clients include Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Eastman Kodak, Nikon USA, Fuji Film, and the US Navy. She spends a great deal of time in airports waiting for fl ights to domestic and international destinations where she teaches and presents on a wide variety of digital imaging topics. To learn more about Katrin please visit: www.photoshopdiva.com, www.digitalretouch.org, www.binge-golfers.com and (in October, 2004) www.photoshopmasking.com.

“A little good retouching is much better than a lot of poor retouching”

The whole point of retouching an image is to make it look convincing enough that it

doesn’t look retouched at all. As anyone who has used the rubber stamp tool in Photoshop

can tell you, it’s pretty easy to mistakenly make your image look like it was retouched with

a hammer. As a portrait retoucher your role is to accentuate the person’s natural features

while minimizing the blemishes that can detract from a pleasing portrait. Most impor-

tantly you want to maintain the individuality of the person. Not every person will have the

Hollywood ingenue’s flawless skin or a lion’s head of hair. So study the character of the per-

son in the picture and decide which attributes to accentuate and which to minimize before

you begin to click your mouse.

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Copyright: © 2004. Katrin Eismann. All Rights ReservedCredits: Instructor photo by Mark Beckelman www.beckelman.comAcknowledgments:Web site Info: www.photoshopdiva.comContact Info: [email protected]

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