Digital Camera World

How to retouch a portrait

A typical Photoshop task is to enhance a portrait by tidying up spots, smoothing skin and boosting tones. This is a good way to familiarise yourself with a few key tools, and provides an introduction to Photoshop’s most important feature: layers. Layers are like pages of digital tracing paper, sitting one on top of another to create an image made up from several editable elements. When retouching

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