Photo Composition for Artistic Portraits
Skin Editing
A course by Krishna VR , Photographer
About the video: Skin Editing
Overview
“Now I want to show you my most important and favorite process to give an interesting twist to my work through the highlights and textures of the skin. You will learn two processes and you will evaluate which of the two can be more useful for your final composition depending on your idea. Perfect and smooth skin for an editorial and beauty version, or plasticized and porcelain skin for a fantasy and surreal composition. ”
In this video lesson Krishna VR addresses the topic: Skin Editing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photo Composition for Artistic Portraits . Learn to add fantasy and surrealism to your portrait photography with digital retouching in Photoshop.
Partial transcription of the video
“Skin editing Now I will show you my favorite processes to do the skin editing of the characters. I use two processes: frequency separation and a plasticized and surreal effect for my character. You will learn two different processes and you will evaluate which one works best for your composition: smooth skin for a character who is in a "beauty" or editorial photograph or the plasticized skin for a character that will be in a surreal composition. Let's see it. Here we are going to do it in two separate parts. I will do a skin editing process that I call frequency separation to the character ...”
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Course summary for: Photo Composition for Artistic Portraits
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Photo Retouching, Photography, Photography Post-production

Krishna VR
A course by Krishna VR
Krishna VR is a young Mexican photographer specialized in self-portraits and is known for her artwork that combines photography and hyper-realistic painting. By experimenting with scenography and creative post-production editing, she creates unique images that tell a story.
She won her first award at 17 years old in the Under 20 category at the Siena International Photography Awards. In her young career, she has already had her work on display in museums in Amsterdam, New York, Japan, and most notably, the Louvre in Paris where she participated in the Exposure Award Collection with her photo "Path of Destruction."
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