HIYA!
Here you will find links to videos and docs to help you with editing, please let me know if you have any questions, I might take a minute to reply but I would much rather you ask me all the questions than have to waste time doing something you're unsure of that we might have to redo - promise you won't be bothering me!
- Sessions should be edited to be able to have my reveal within 14 days.
- Payments will be sent done after each session within 7 days via Venmo.
- First 3 sessions will be unpaid (I will also be editing them but we will be running through like it's a paid session that way we can get in the flow of things and you'll have 3 sessions to practice on without any pressure!)
- Pay will be $1/image until no further edits are needed on my end, then will increase to $1.50, then as skill increases pay will also increase! Most galleries are 75-100 images.
- Once you have the hang of the retouching portion, making black and white copies of each photo will be added at $25 per gallery.
- We will be using Lightroom catalogs, photoshop, and portraiture. If you have a mac I can give you my sign-ins, I'm not sure that we can do that for PCs so I'll check into that.
Importing
-Plug in hard drive
-Double click hard drive
-locate "needs edited" folder and open it
-open the current session's lightroom catalog by double clicking on the blue item in the lightroom catalog folder
Exporting
-AFTER editing in photoshop, deleting copies, editing in portraiture, deleting copies and creating black and white copies:
-Select all photos by going to edit select all
-Go to file > export as catalog > make sure all the boxes are checked and rename the file to client nameFINAL
Teeth Whitening
-In lightroom navigate to the dotted circle on the right hand side and click on it
-click on brush
-navigate to effects and click on teeth whitening
-paint on their teeth while avoiding going into the gum-line or off the teeth.
Acne/item removal
-For one or two small items, In lightroom click on the bandaid - make the tool a little bigger than the item you're trying to remove and move it to where it looks natural
-In photoshop for acne, cellulite, or other object removal, navigate to the bandaid tool and also make it slightly larger than the item you'd like to remove and click.
Dark Circles
-In photoshop navigate to the clone tool.
-Make sure the flow and opacity are around 25-30%.
-You will be selecting the area you'd like to clone from by holding the option button while clicking the area, then painting in to the area you'd like to minimize.
-You may have to go over it a couple times.
Wrinkles
(see dark circles) -same process
Slimming
-In photoshop click on filter > liquify,,,
-use a larger brush/tool so it looks more natural, you can use a smaller brush/tool in areas that need it, just be aware of the areas and surrounding areas.
-Do little bits at a time to avoid doing too much
-use the freeze mask tool to keep areas around the editing area from being distorted.
Portraiture
-Once you've done all photoshop edits and deleted the copies, select all > right click > edit in portraiture > typically I stay around 65%-75% smoothing, then click okay.
-Check a couple once they have saved and look good
-then undo to get back to where they were all selected
-click edit > invert selection
-then either hit delete to remove original files or right click > remove from collection.
Black and White Copies
-After you've done all photoshop and portraiture edits
-Select the first photo > right click > create virtual copy
-Click on my black and white preset
-Edit>select all > right click > create virtual copies > hit sync then synchronize
-Scroll through making any necessary adjustments since there are several different lighting situations they will need adjusted.