Beauty Retouching with Dennis Dunbar

Beauty Retouching with Dennis Dunbar

Share This: Los Angeles American Photographic Artists March 26th: Beauty Retouching APA LA Upcoming Event Schedule Photo by Jeremy Cowart March 26th High End Beauty Retouching with Dennis Dunbar Join us on Saturday, March 26th when Dennis Dunbar will be teaching a...

Jeremy Cowart and Taylor Swift

As a digital artist/retoucher I love collaborating with photographers producing beautiful images like this one of Taylor Swift, shot by Jeremy Cowart. This image called for careful retouching and subtle techniques to enhance her natural beauty.In working on Beauty...

After Effects Animations

Over the last year I’ve been working on adding some After Effects skills to my capabilities. It’s been a pretty natural transition as the basic concepts are very similar to what I’ve been doing in Photoshop for the last 20 years. Recently I was...

Recreating the Hipstamatic Look in 6 Steps

Last summer I finally broke down and got an iPhone. Beyond all the cool phone stuff it does my favorite part has been playing with it’s camera. Somehow the simplicity of the camera and the fact that it’s always with me makes photography much more...

A Few Thoughts on Banding in Images

The other day I was browsing through the APANet discussion list and came across a question from a photographer about banding issues they were seeing in the skies of some images. After responding there I thought this would be a great topic for a Blog post so here we...

Quick Tip: Burnin' and Dodgin' made easy

One of the more common techniques retouchers use is named for an old darkroom technique, Burning and Dodging. Back then we’d use our hands or some other device to either expose a part of an image longer (Burning) or to keep the light out of an area on the image...