Before and after for photo retouching challenge from modelmayhem.com

I finally found some real photographers with real, unretouched photos to be fiddled and nudged into masterworks. Hooray! For this image I didn’t want to do a whole lot of skin-smoothing, firstly because the model already had incredibly smooth skin, and secondly because people aren’t made of plastic, and it is my opinion that a […]

Liquify is a photo editing technique in Photoshop that basically turns a photograph into warm, flatulent putty. But often the term liquify is used to mean “reshaped” regardless of whether the liquify tool was actually used or not–I almost never use the liquify tool proper, because it’s awful. See the image to the left for […]

This past summer I hiked the Appalachian trail, and having just recently regained the stomach for Appalachian imagery, I went through all the photos in order to pick out ones I wanted to share. There were a ton to go through, and I remembered a lot of them were taken with the intent to edit–lots […]

Here’s a thing. Lately I’ve been scouring the recesses of my hard-drive for pictures I might use on tinkerpix.com, my photo retouching service , for promotional purposes…because it’s failing. Below you’ll find a before-and-after of one such picture, complete with a fancy little slider bar enabling you to see every change and tweak I made […]