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A Step by Step Guide to Photo Retouching for Newborn Baby Photographs

Author: Julia Williams
by Julia Williams
Posted: Aug 19, 2017

Children are a bundle of joy for parents and for the whole family. Parents love to capture every moment of the first few years of a newborn in the form of photographs. Modern parents take help of professional photographers to capture the best shot and create a photo album. As a professional photographer, one must ensure that every photograph captures and portrays a special memory with precision in a photo album. Professional photographers can use various techniques for photo retouching using Photoshop for the perfect candid images of a newborn.

Step 1: Remove Background Distractions

One can use various techniques for professional photo retouching or either can follow the following steps for photo retouching of the photograph of a newborn. To professionally retouch a photograph one must start by removing background distractions, first. Once one removes all the distraction, one must focus on enhancing the image using fine retouching edits.

Step 2: Sharpening the Image

First of all, start by sharpening the image by creating a duplicate layer for separating the effect. Use the filter down menu and go down to other filters and select the High Pass filter for the perfect sharpening effect. Increase the sharpening radius and get the final preview to analyze the requirement of sharpening effect. Just keep an eye on the photo and baby outlines to ensure that you do not overdo the sharpening effect. An effect between 3-5 ranges usually does wonders to a pre-processed image.

Step 3: Photo Retouching

Once done with sharpening, you can move over to the next step of photo retouching that involves changing the blending mode of the layer and selecting the overlay option. Though a clear demarcation is not visible to the eye right now, by hiding the sharpen layer, one can clearly analyze the difference between original image and the current one.

Step 4: Brightness Adjustment Layer

Once sharpening is complete, focus on the brightness of the newborn’s skin for a bright and beautiful skin tone. For this, go to the layer menu and select new adjustment layer and choose levels option. Name the new adjustment layer as brightness and hit on the new layer with trial and error method where one can adjust the contrast, mid tones and brightness of the original image and give up the desired effect for a shiny and bright skin to the newborn. This effect will ensure that every image in a newborn photo album appears perfect after photo retouching.

Step 5: Use the Layer Mask and Brush Tool

After done with the brightness adjustment layer, one can focus on selecting the desired areas of a baby’s skin using the layer mask and using the brush tool for adjusting whites in background and foreground layers. Brushing over baby’s skin reveals the enhancement that has been done with adjustment level layer.

Step 6: Give a Solid Color Tint to Image

Once done with all the adjustments related to brightness and sharpness, you can focus on giving a tone to the photograph for a dreamy and fantastic effect. Use the adjustment layer menu to give a solid color tint to the image and reduce the opacity of the effect to about 40%. You can choose to add unlimited adjustment layers each with a different tint or color tone for creating the perfect effect according to the photographer’s creativity or the client’s request.

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I am Julia Williams, write this article about how to start recommending flush mount wedding album design services to clients.

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