Retouching Techniques
Why Hair Retouching Falls Apart at the Edges (And How to Fix It Without Destroying Texture)
There’s a specific kind of dread that comes from zooming into a strand of hair at 200% and realizing you’ve just turned a real person’s curls into a painted helmet. I know that feeling well. Early in my retouching career, after years of shooting weddings and trying to teach myself Photoshop between weekend events, I sent a client a set of beauty portraits I was genuinely proud of. She wrote back two words: “too plastic.