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Page 1 of 2 Retouching Photos
Over the past 5 years I have been involved with at least 2
centres where high quality scanning and printing were important to the users
and so I have had to understand how to operate digital photographic kit to a
high level of expertise.
Add to this an interest in learning
as much as possible
about this subject (retouching, colour enhancement, colour sync,
masking) and you can see that I have considerable expertise in digital
photographic workflows.
The recent developments in digital SLRs is also something I
have been following closely and more professional tools like the Photoshop
Camera RAW module are of particular interest to me at the moment.
Description:
- Used
Photoshop for the past 10 years
- Used
Photoshop professionally for 2 years at a website/newspaper
- Used
Photoshop and digital photography hardware for over 5 years as main technician
in 2 centres
- Scanning
experience using a variety of machines from desktop to virtual drum
- Set
up colour sync environment for Nikon Cool Scan, UMAX A3 flatbed, NEC Mitsubishi
CRT displays and Epson Stylus 2100 Printer for Space Studios
- Advising
Professional photographers at Photofusion on using Flextight Scanner
- Practised
at retouching dust and scratches using a variety of tools (healing brush,
clone tool, cut and paste, patterns, modes) and hardware (Wacom Pen,
Digital ICE on Nikon Scanners)
- Calibrating
scanners using Silverfast Ai using targets
- Primary
and Secondary colour correction using a solid knowledge of colour theory
using Photoshop (curves, levels, reference points, info palette, colour
selections, hue and saturation, photo filter)
- Advanced
masking techniques
- Colour
correction to create an artistic look
- Understanding
of digital camera post shot workflow (camera RAW, resolution, noise, Chromatic Aberration, lens
distortion, final sharpening)
- Ability
in printing accurate prints using a variety of hardware, understand the
importance of custom printer profiles and min/max ink limits
- Straightening
and corrections to lens distortions using Photoshop CS2
- Large
knowledge of core Photoshop tools/presets and shortcuts that allow me to
quickly produce high quality artwork for clients
- Ability
to train in these more complex concepts as well as the more basic
functions of Photoshop
- Development
of a library of resources from site and books such as http://www.outbackphoto.com/
http://www.johnpaulcaponigro.com/ http://www.digitalretouch.org
Hardware/software used:
People involved/Organisation:
spacestudios, Photofusion, my own artwork
Date:
10 years, ongoing
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