Mastering Urban Portrait Retouching: A Complete Guide to the Bir Hakeim Bridge Technique

Mastering Urban Portrait Retouching: A Complete Guide to the Bir Hakeim Bridge Technique

Mastering Urban Portrait Retouching: A Complete Guide to the Bir Hakeim Bridge Technique I’ve always found that some of the most transformative retouching lessons come from real-world shooting scenarios—especially when we’re working with the challenging lighting and composition that urban environments throw at us. In this excellent tutorial, Serge Ramelli shows us how to take a portrait shot at the iconic Bir Hakeim Bridge in Paris and transform it into a polished, professional image using systematic retouching and beauty editing techniques.

How to Use Lightroom Mobile's New AI Blemishes Tool for Professional Portrait Retouching

How to Use Lightroom Mobile's New AI Blemishes Tool for Professional Portrait Retouching

There’s a specific kind of dread that comes with opening a portrait from a last-minute shoot and realizing the skin needs serious work before the client’s deadline in two hours. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit, and for years my answer was to open Photoshop, set up my layers, and start healing stamp by healing stamp. It works. It’s also slow, and on mobile it’s basically impossible.