Retouching Techniques
The Five-Minute Portrait Cleanup That Makes Everything Else Work Better
A few years back, I had a client send back a set of beauty edits with a note that still stings a little: “These look over-processed. Can we start fresh?” I had spent hours on frequency separation, careful dodge and burn, even some manual hair cleanup. But I had skipped the boring part. The foundational pass. The unsexy stuff that nobody posts tutorials about because it doesn’t make for a dramatic before-and-after reel.
