Image Editing & Retouching
Jewelry Retouching, Done Properly
Jewelry retouching is the work of turning a raw product capture of a ring, pendant, bracelet or pair of earrings into an image that shows the piece clearly and...
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Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get Super Resolution and Image Upscaling Right
Super resolution and image upscaling are the techniques used to increase an image's pixel dimensions so it can be printed larger, cropped harder or displayed on...
Image Editing & Retouching
A Practical Guide to Panorama Stitching
Panorama stitching is the process of combining a series of overlapping photographs into a single image that is wider, taller or simply higher in resolution than...
Image Editing & Retouching
Sky Replacement: What Actually Works
Sky replacement means swapping a dull, gray or blown-out sky for a different sky image, then adjusting the foreground so the light in the scene agrees with the...
Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get Lightroom Masking Right
Lightroom masking is the set of local adjustment tools in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw that let you change one part of a photo without touching the rest. It i...
Image Editing & Retouching
Exporting Images for the Web: What Actually Works
Exporting images for the web is the last step between a finished edit and what a visitor actually sees, and it is the step most often left to defaults. The expo...
Image Editing & Retouching
A Practical Guide to Pixels, PPI and DPI
Pixels, ppi and dpi are three different measurements that get used as if they were one word: "resolution." Pixel dimensions are the actual width and height of a...
Image Editing & Retouching
Frequency Separation: What Actually Works
Frequency separation is a retouching technique that splits a photograph into two layers: a low-frequency layer that carries broad color and tonal transitions, a...
Image Editing & Retouching
Liquify and Body Reshaping, Done Properly
Liquify and body reshaping covers every retouching move that physically relocates pixels rather than recoloring or replacing them: smoothing a bunched sleeve, s...
Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get LUTs and Color Lookup for Photos Right
A look-up table, or LUT, is a small file that tells software how to turn every input color into an output color. Applied to a photograph, it gives the image a p...
Image Editing & Retouching
Resampling Methods, Done Properly
Every time an image changes size, software has to invent pixels. Shrink a 6,000-pixel-wide product shot to 1,200 pixels and four out of every five columns of da...
Image Editing & Retouching
How to Get Product Shadows and Reflections Right
Getting product shadows and reflections right is what separates a catalog that looks photographed from one that looks assembled. When a product is cut out of it...
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