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Up-Close Portrait Photography: Start to Finish

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Follow the portrait photography master, Chris Orwig, as he walks through three start-to-finish, up-close portrait projects in Photoshop and Lightroom.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Portrait of a Legend
  • Setting the stage
  • Reviewing the photos
  • Selecting the keepers
  • Creating a collection
  • Creating a strong black-and-white look
  • Fine-tune the look and fix the background
  • Fixing the hat
  • Content-aware cropping
  • Final Curves adjustments
  • Wrapping it all up
2. Portrait of an Artist
  • What is your vision?
  • The scavenger hunt: FInding the keepers
  • Choosing the final selects
  • Cropping the keepers
  • Converting to black-and-white look
  • Fine-tune the image
  • Now it’s your turn
3. Portrait of a Celebrity
  • Introducing the project
  • Searching for the look
  • Cropping and basic adjustments
  • Fixing graduated adjustment and details
  • Retouching away small details
  • Retouching skin tones
  • Fine-tuning color and tone
  • Testing out other creative ideas
  • Photography your own celebrity
Conclusion
  • What's next?

Taught by

Chris Orwig

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