Focus Program Meeting – Presentation by Cliff Lawson on “Basic Portrait Retouching”

Basic Portrait retouching for both males and females.When making a portrait, the lighting, posing, and expression are critical, but the job is not done until at least some basic retouching is accomplished.

It is important to make the person look natural and not overdone. Skin texture and those wrinkles are part of the person—it is who they are. Nevertheless, we all look a bit better some some basic skin cleanup and gentle lessening of some of those wrinkles and blemishes.

Cliff will be using Photoshop to give us some simple easy-to-use tools to change those snapshots into portraits.

About Cliff

Most Focus members know Cliff as he has been a club members for just a few months short of 15 years and is a past president. He is a professional photographer specializing in portraits of high school seniors, families, and business headshots. He is a PPA Certified Professional Photographer, and holds advanced degrees as Master Photographer, and Photographic Craftsman.He has been awarded two Fuji Masterpiece Awards for his portrait work, and has had several of his images appear in PPA’s prestigious Loan Collection.