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Following my recent film showing you how I shot the Mentor Portraits project back in South Africa, this is a follow up tutorial showing you the full editing process in Photoshop; from retouching, to dodge and burn, colour toning, sharpening and contrast control all using adjustment layers, masking and blending modes. I hope you find it helpful.
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40 responses to “How to Edit Dramatic Portraits in Photoshop”
Liking before even starting to watch! This is a pure masterpiece 🎉
Hey Sean do you recommend using matte paper or luster for black and white portrait prints?
Sean Tucker
Incredible workflow! What lens and focal length did u use?
Saw another video where u shared buying used. Such a great piece of advice! I went with a used 5D mark3 and loving it!
You just turned a good photograph to a piece of art. Marvellous. Thank you, Sean!
Thank you very much for this video. Great work
I love the dramatic look and I'm glad I found this video on editing a dramatic portrait.
I learnt a lot from this. A great portrait by the way. Many thanks
Isn’t that James Blunts father? Look up Monsters by James Blunt. A song he wrote and sang to his father who never received an organ transplant and died. Yes that is his actual father not an actor. It is him.
You brought Sir Anthony Hopkins out on the right side of the portrait 😊
You brought Sir Anthony Hopkins out on the right side of the portrait 😊
Hi Sean, hi everyone. I can’t find the shortcut to adjust the size and hardness of my brush in LIGHTROOM, not photoshop. I have a small keyboard, no bracket keys. Does anyone knows? Thanks for you helps, and thanks for everything Sean.
Thomas
Thanks Sean. That was exactly what I was looking for. Great tutorial!
Hi Sean, very interesting!
Quick question: what do you do before exporting the photo from LR? (= do you make some tweaks to the raw in LR or do you directly export onto Photoshop?)
Also, what method do you use to export the image from LR to Photoshop?
Thanks!
Best,
W
Beautiful, clean, simple and immediately applicable. Thank you, you have a new subscriber!
Hi! what F number on that 50mm? thanks!!!
Hello Sean ! I would like to appreciate for these amazing videos, Happy New Year ! Amazing Job M8 !
I just found this and as a beginner I found it to be amazing. You said that first you use Lightroom. Can you share the work process from there also? Many many thanks for all your videos, they are amazing
Wow, fast but GREAT…thank you. All your video's are extremely helpful and honest!
After every effect me trying to find the difference: 🤔😑
After seeing the final result: 😮😲
This tutorial was perfect! The bit about how you add a painterly touch with those multiply and screen masks was brilliant. I've always wondered how some photographers achieve that "look" with their photos.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. This was so helpful for me to start to learn how to look at portraits and portrait editing.
super dense information, and really great intro in several concepts of editing workflow. big respect, and big thanks!
Thanks Sean, learned a lot from your video tutorial,…SUBBED!
Glad to hear that I'm not the only one shooting and working in JPEG (I use the highest quality jpeg that my camera provides and it works quite well for me, too. Very useful video and easy to follow, even for beginners .Thanks Sean!
<3 Ahh Great
Just wanted to thank for this as well. Followed this and the "How to shoot corporate headshots" last night and even though it might not be a professional result, It looked good enough so that I can feel confident using it as my profile picture, because for the first time since at least 10 years I liked the shot I got from myself. Keeping in mind that I only had two cheap and not very powerful lights (one with softbox), no reflector (used some taped together A4 sheets on a tripod) and a cheap black curtain as a background, the result is pretty okay. Would've loved to have a backlight for the hairs, that would've done editing so much more easy. The whole: Push your head forward to avoid the double chin look is so, so underrated. It makes such a difference! Thanks again, you just gained a very happy new subscriber 🙂
Learned a lot. Thank you!
3:30 – Removing any flaws
eyes6:45 – Sharpen the eyes
9:04 – Sharpen the skin and fine lines
10:20 – Lighten up the eyes
12:20 – Little sweep on the iris
skin14:15 – Adding more earthy tones to the skin
17:45 – Adding some vignette
19:38 – Burning
21:17 – Dodging
background22:52 – Adding some texture
colors27:12 – Refining the shadows, midtones and highlights
28:02 – Global saturation and individual adjustments
29:15 – Adding some contrast
29:36 – Darken some bugging details
31:00 – Double checking the highlights and shadows
31:59 – Export
How are you using the healing brush on a blank layer?
This is super helpful. Thanks Sean!
Really enjoyed this. I took a very similar portrait and followed along with the edits as you did them. Learned a bunch as I normally do not work in photoshop. Thank you for an excellent tutorial ! Do you do critique of images ?
Does anybody have tips for shooting portraits with Rembrandt lighting of people with glasses. What to do with the shadows the glasses produce on the face? Thanks! 🙂
This is such a fantastic tutorial! Thank you so much for this!
Mate, you're worth your weight in gold. Thank you so much for this tutorial.
thank you so much xxxxx
very helpful sir ❤️😘
It's not only postprocessing, this's art!
Amazing work!!! Trying to copy this. My wife's grandma is getting old and I'd love to take a chance at photographing her before things go down hill.
Brilliant video, very helpful and informative. Excellent Channel. Many thanks for sharing.