THE MISSION
Enhance a portrait and retouch blemishes with simple retouching skills in Affinity Photo
Time needed
20 minutes
Skill level
Intermediate
Kit needed
Affinity Photo
Among the masses the term ‘Photoshopped’ has become a byword for digitally enhanced portraits (among other types of image), but these days it’s not just Photoshop that lets you carry out these kinds of edits.
Affinity Photo offers a range of powerful portrait-enhancing tools, from those that let you remove marks and imperfections, to dedicated features for skin softening. What’s more, the layer-based workflow of Affinity means that these edits can be done on separate layers, so you always have the option to control the strength of an effect, or go back to an earlier stage.
Here we’ll explore several key retouching techniques that you can apply to almost any portrait. Along the way we’ll encounter many key features in Affinity Photo. Portrait retouching is often about enhancing different areas of a face – we boost the eyes, soften the skin, sharpen the lashes and so on. We can use layer masks to confine effects to specific areas of the shot. This is a key skill not just for retouching, but for all kinds of photograph editing.
この記事は PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine の June 2020 版に掲載されています。
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この記事は PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine の June 2020 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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