Touching up a portrait
Important note
Before we start, I urge you to take your time. The program can lag at times, and if you move too fast, the tools may do unpredictable things, sometimes it may not save your progress right away, and so on.
People can be the most challenging subject to touch up in photo editing. There are endless variations of features that vary from one person to the next, including skin tone (such as freckles or scars), hair texture, eyes, and smile, which can appear more or less prominent under different lighting and backgrounds.
Understanding these things helps with touching up gradually and carefully so the end result will be a natural, soft look rather than a stiff, flat, harsh, or artificial computer-generated look.
Now, let’s explore how to touch up a portrait step by step in the upcoming section.
Choosing and preparing a portrait to touch up
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