DIY Glamour Photos With Digital Photo Retouching
Many a teenage girl has had that awful moment when they've bought something they've seen in a glossy fashion magazine but found out that they don't look like the model when they look in the mirror. If this has happened to your daughter, niece, sister or friend, you know you've done what you can to bolster her self-esteem by telling her that all the photos of the models have been digitally retouched to make them look oh-so-perfect.
While a quick introduction to the world of digital photo retouching may do wonders for an adolescent girl's self-esteem, it's possible to take it another step and make a photo of her look every bit as good as the ones in the glossies.
For this, you can either do the digital photo retouching yourself with the appropriate software or employ the service of a digital photo retouching service to work their wonders on a photo.
Start by taking your photo. Even if you haven't got the fancy equipment or reflectors that professional photographers use, you can use digital photo retouching tools to eliminate common problems like red eyes and poor lighting. Try to take the photo against a nice, simple background without any clutter, but if this isn't possible, the magic wand of digital photo retouching can remove any objects or clutter from the background. Digital photo retouching can remove any unwanted blemishes and even out the skin tone much better than any cosmetics can. Blotches, freckles, pimples and wrinkles - all gone with digital photo retouching (and you don't have to be a teenage girl to benefit from the morale booster that seeing a glamorous photo of yourself can be). A digital photo can also be retouched to make it more glamorous with other tools. The most sure-fire way to make someone better-looking in a photo is to enlarge the pupils of the eyes. As the pupils naturally contract in response to the bright lights of a flash, digital photo retouching is the only way to give a face in a photo those beguiling "doe eyes". Other things that digital photo retouching can do ten time better than even the most expensive cosmetic product are reddening (and enlarging) lips, whitening eyes and teeth and adding a glamorous soft-focus glow to skin tones and the overall image. Of course, digital photo retouching doesn't have to be limited to photos of attractive human beings. Digital photo retouching can be used to enhance and improve photos of nearly everything under the sun - or under the moon, for that matter.
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