How I Use Photoshop When My Clients Ask Me To Tweak Their Portraits a Little

How I Use Photoshop To Make My Client Even More Attractive In Minutes

Photographer Aaron Nace over at Phlearn is teaching you how you can quickly make a few adjustments to create the kind of images your client has requested.

He is stressing the fact that you shouldn’t overdo it, and walking you through the whole process so you can see how each step affects the image.

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Shelly I use the liquify tool constantly in family photo shoot edits. The example in this video is an extreme. If someone has played with the liquify tool or even uses it regularly then they will realize the way it’s implemented in this video is solid advice.

I am friends with many professionals who use the liquify filter all the time for minor touch ups. Truth be told I’ve used it on myself a couple of times to accentuate my curves :-).

I would never suggest someone do an edit this drastic because it is unrealistic. I will say this though. If you have a client and show them a picture with a turkey neck and then one without they will buy the one without every single time.

I can get rid of a turkey neck in seconds. That being said I have also been a Photoshop user for over 15 years now.

Shelly I use the liquify tool constantly in family photo shoot edits. The example in this video is an extreme. If someone has played with the liquify tool or even uses it regularly then they will realize the way it’s implemented in this video is solid advice.
I am friends with many professionals who use the liquify filter all the time for minor touch ups. Truth be told I’ve used it on myself a couple of times to accentuate my curves :-).
I would never suggest someone do an edit this drastic because it is unrealistic. I will say this though. If you have a client and show them a picture with a turkey neck and then one without they will buy the one without every single time.
I can get rid of a turkey neck in seconds. That being said I have also been a Photoshop user for over 15 years now.

Why would you want to change the body image of a client? This is why we have such a bad time with young ladies developmentally eating disorders.
I’m sorry, I love your tips and everything you teach, but don’t agree with this one. Thank you for everything else though.

This drives me crazy – clients with such low self esteem expecting me to fix them. I show them how to pose so they look thinner. Sometimes I just want to shake them. Grrr.

Like I said in the intro Tabbie Minzer this is an extreme example of the use of this tool. I use liquify in almost every portrait I sell. The uses are much more subtle though. Making hair fuller- pushing in the back of an arm, etc.

Like I said in the intro Stephanie Harkness Miller, Reanna Rae Kellie LeVan, and Tabbie Minzer this is a VERY extreme example of the use of this tool. I use liquify in almost every portrait I sell. The uses are much more subtle though. Making hair fuller- pushing in the back of an arm, pushing in the neck under the chin slightly, etc…. The advice given on the various features of the filter in this video are rock solid.

Forget the client, what does the model think about what you have done here? There have to be ethical guidelines on what is acceptable in today’s seemingly infinite digital darkroom and, like others, I believe this sort of editing—even the desire itself to make a body, but especially a female body, look “better”—to be a huge step over the line.

Everyone has a type of look that they find attractive from hair color to body shape. If you’re a curvy girl find a man who likes a curvy girl and vice versa. The tutorial is cool and editing a few minor issues in a photo is cool. I wonder why there are never any tutorials showing how to give a waif model some curves???

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