Sarah Edmunds - Painterly Fine Art Portrait - for Competition

This detailed video follows a comprehensive photo editing tutorial where Sarah goes through various stages of editing a photograph to achieve a specific artistic look. She discusses choosing the right image, adjusting white balance and dynamic range, applying and controlling clarity without affecting skin texture, and the subtleties of using curves and basic adjustments for shadow and highlight enhancement. The tutorial delves into advanced topics like frequency separation for skin retouching, dodging and burning for dimensional depth, manipulating light direction with textures, and color grading for mood enhancement. Sarah also explores the impact of crops on composition, the use of liquify for subtle facial adjustments, and layering textures for added complexity. She addresses common pitfalls in printing and strategies to maintain detail in shadows and highlights. Throughout, the tutorial demonstrates meticulous attention to detail and an iterative approach to editing, underscoring the blend of technical skill and artistic vision required for high-level photo retouching.



00:20 Choosing which image to work on

01:36 Raw adjustments in detail

09:59 Open in Photoshop

10:12 Cropping and composition

19:25 Frequency separation for skin

34:08 Dodge and burn to control light and add dimension

48:06 Liquify for expression

51:36 Adding texture

54:47 Adding rays of light

55:55 Colour grading and toning

https://sarahedmunds.live/programs/painterly_fine_art_portrait-competition?category_id=198515

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