The Others- Fashion, Retouching and Digital Ethics

On the right hand side is the orignal image of someone selling the big issue, and on the left hand side is the editted version. We had a tutorial on how to retouch images wich can be done on portrates or landscapes and if done well can be very tasteful.

You start off by finding the image that you want to use and for this to work the image needs to ben taken in raw so that you can adjust it. You have a hard layer and a soft layer, and you basically inhace the first image you have, so that the colours are more vibrant and eye catching.

After you open that up in to photoshop, you duplicate that image so that you have the same image to work on again. On the side in photoshop on the layer, there is a little box in the corner of the image where you click and can turn it in to a jpg so that it cn't be ediited in raw again. After that the other image gets taken back in to it's raw file to be ediited.

Now this is where you go the other way, and back think a lil brighter and smoother, once you're happy with that you can bring it back in to photoshop and create a layer mask. Now that a layer mask has been created you are then able to rub through the hard image and create a soft texture were ever you want to.

This follow on from the last blog post about images being over tuned and editted. When i was creating this i found out how easy it was to over manipulate an image to fit 'ideal'. It wasn till i did my first attempt that i saw how over the top i had gone on make his skin look so smooth and his hair looking so old and define. The image looked unrealistic and set expectations of what someone should look like, and even tho I saw the image as 'ideal' I was shocked at how the model looked like a completely different person and how the message behind the first image had changed.