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Another key difference between the way we retouch men and women is in the midtones and color grading. We often push for lighter midtones and highlights in women, where with men, we embrace darker midtones and shadows to accentuate the mood. This is largely in part because lighter tones reduce the appearance of lines and wrinkles, whereas the darker tones enhance the imperfections. Pick up any fashion magazine and you can see that men’s images tend to be in
a warmer color palette while women’s images are
typically cooler in tone.
When it comes to retouching, there’s a plethora of plug-ins and actions that can be purchased; how- ever, in the long run, learning the steps that go into this skill can make you a better photographer by applying what you’ve learned to your photographic processes. While there are a million different ways in which retouching can be approached, there are several steps that are universal when retouching both men and women that can be achieved in Photoshop by photographers of all levels, as you’ll see below.
BASIC MEN’S RETOUCH
Step One: Starting with your RAW file, begin by making global exposure and color adjust- ments in either Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw. Global adjustments refer to Exposure, Shadows and Highlights, and the Blacks and Whites. Start- ing with a good reference point that mimics the desired end result will make the following work- flow a little less intensive. From Lightroom, go to Photo>Edit In>Edit in Adobe Photoshop to open the image with the adjustments applied into Photoshop. From Adobe Camera Raw, click the Open Image button.
[KelbyOne members may download the JPEG files used in this tutorial at http://kelbyone.com /magazine. All files are for personal use only. If you’re using the practice files, go ahead and open logan_original.jpg in Photoshop.]
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