Photo retouching- An Added Glow

If there’s a main difficulty to be said about beauty retouching, it’s that it can be very hard to make it look natural at times. In this day and age, it’s important to realize that less is more when it comes to beauty editing and that the days of overly smoothed and blurred skin, enlarged eyes and reshaped features are long gone. There has been a shift in retouching trends for the better, with many more improved retouching techniques and methods to focus on.

In this photo the skin texture was maintained fully, only focusing on brightening the skin and eyes and highlighting areas that were already attracting light in order to give a dewy look look to the overall photo. Then I focused on the background color, changing it from a blue/gray that washed out the model to a passion red; warming up the overall tone.