Make-up
The larger professional studios often employ make-up artists on photo shoots to get the very best out their model’s looks. Some models, even quite experienced ones, are not always keen to do there own make-up. If you do not have the budget for a make-up artist or do not know one who is willing to work with you, help is at hand from your computer. Almost everything that might need to be done to a human face to make it more beautiful can be done in image management programmes like Photoshop. When we all worked with film and transparencies a model who developed spots on the day was a disaster. Now such problems are easily remedied. However this can take a long time, particularly if you have to go through an entire portrait session correcting a large number of pictures. Fortunately there are good programmes about that will retouch the whole face for you in a few seconds without you loosing control of the overall look of the image. Some of these programmes are not expensive and well worth the money they cost in terms of time saved and results.
Examples
This is the girl as photographed originally. She is wearing make-up but not enough to cover her freckles. It would be fine as it is if only a natural result was required.
Here the first photograph has been treated with a programme called Portrait Professional from http://www.portraitprofessional.com which was both user-friendly and quick to do. There is provision for controlling exactly how much correction you want to do to the model’s complexion and many other aspects of her face In this case the freckles have been subdued, eyes slightly enhanced and a few tiny lines removed.
Here it was felt version 2 needed more accentuation around the eyes so this was added in Photoshop afterwards using the ‘Burn tool’. It only took a few seconds but made a lot of difference to the final result.
Studio Make Up wrote:
These type of image management programs are very useful for those who are not able to hire make-up artist and are also very easy to work on images. We can get the output whatever we want from any type of images.
posted on 08/10/2009