Photo Retouching for Advertising Still Lifes
Highlighting and creating glare and reflections
A course by Karina Meza , Photographer and Digital Retoucher
About the video: Highlighting and creating glare and reflections
Overview
“Glitters and / or reflections are also something important in the look end of the product, and they are something we generally lose in digital cleaning. In this lesson, I will show you how to use some tools to rebuild them, or build some new ones that can help us.”
In this video lesson Karina Meza addresses the topic: Highlighting and creating glare and reflections, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photo Retouching for Advertising Still Lifes. Learn to use Photoshop to enhance the features of products for commercial or creative reasons.
Partial transcription of the video
“Highlighting and creating glare and reflections In this lesson, I will teach you how to rebuild glare and reflections, which are a fundamental part of the final "look" of the product. In the case of glass containers, reconstruction helps a lot of the reflections and brightness that already exist or sometimes enhance them in some way, And sometimes it also works to generate some new ones. The best way to do it for my consideration, It is through the adjustment layers and previous selections. I'm going to start by drawing that we ideally use the Pen tool to generate the brightness and reflect...”
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Course summary for: Photo Retouching for Advertising Still Lifes
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Advertising, Commercial Photography, Photo Retouching, Product Photography

Karina Meza
A course by Karina Meza
Karina Meza is a self-taught Chilean photographer with more than 15 years' experience dedicated exclusively to digital retouching. During the beginning of her career, she decided to focus solely on retouching product and fashion photography as well as campaigns. This decision has led her to work both directly with clients as well as through agencies, production companies, and photographers.
She has also been teaching photographic postproduction for over 10 years as part of various degree programs including design, art, advertising, and photography.
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