Retouching Techniques
The 15-Minute Eye Enhancement Workflow That Stopped My Clients From Looking Like Wax Figures
There’s a particular kind of silence you get from a client when they don’t like something but don’t quite know how to say it. I got that silence a lot in my early retouching days. The edits looked technically clean. The skin was smooth, the exposure balanced. But the eyes, the part of any portrait that does the actual communicating, looked dim. Flat. Like someone had turned a dial labeled “alive” about 30 percent in the wrong direction.