Artistic Self-Portraits: Introspective Photography

Overview

“Since we have the color base in the selected photographs, we will go to Photoshop to make the last details. You will learn to clean the photo, to perfect the skin and to unify tones, shadows and lights. I will also show you what tools I use to experiment and get more creative and somewhat surreal photos.”

In this video lesson Fotolucida addresses the topic: Finishes in Photoshop, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Self-Portraits: Introspective Photography. Explore the principles of self-portrait photography by learning to capture and edit personal images using Lightroom and Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“Finishes in Photoshop In this lesson I will show you how I do the tweaks and experiment in Photoshop. In Photoshop the first thing I do is to duplicate the layer and start working on this copy. Let's clean all this around, because the idea is that there is only the body and the background of a single color in order to focus attention on the body, on the character. The first thing I use and what I use the most is the Patch tool. If it doesn't work for me, I use these two here, but let's see. Here I have it in Normal Patch, but it is also according to the content. This fully clones and does n...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Self-Portraits: Introspective Photography

• Level: Beginner
• 94% positive reviews (17)
• 1018 students
• 4 units
• 15 lessons (1h 12m)
• 2 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video

• Software

  Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Fine-Art Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography