Boudoir Photography: How to Enhance Your Images with Photoshop Actions
July 30, 2010 | 7 Comments |Add a comment
Boudoir photography requires great lighting, flattering poses, and often the use of photo editing using Photoshop actions. When doing Boudoir photography, you want the woman you are photographing to feel special and beautiful. And while you still want the photo to portray her, Photoshop can help enhance her most positive traits and minimize any flaws or areas where she is self-conscience. This photo was submitted and edited by Camilla Binks of Camilla Photography.
Here is the before and after Camilla submitted plus how she achieved it:
Before:
After:
The step-by-step:
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Started with the Touch of Light Free Photoshop action with 20% opacity brush a bit on hair, face near carpet and hand to brighten up skin and select areas
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Next I used the Magical Clarity action from the Back of Tricks to increase midtone contrast
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Then I used All in the Details- Color Action which pulls out details and pops color of the image
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Patch and Clone tool to remove vein on forehead and bags under eyes.
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To pull out spot colors, I used the Color Finder Brush from the Bag of Tricks at 20% brushed everywhere except skin and hair
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Then I ran the Magic Skin – skin smoothing Photoshop action for a creamy skin
- Used Extreme Fill Flash from the Quickie Collection at 10% layer opacity
- Finished with Quickie Collection-Snap Photoshop action (I always use this!)
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I love the photo, and the action is great, but the dirty carpet is extremely distracting to me. I would have cloned out all the stuff on the floor.. or maybe I’m just too picky.. lol
I agree about the carpet. That is the first thing I noticed. I didn’t even notice the vein on her forehead because I was too busy looking at the giant piece of junk (paper, fuzz, etc) by her hair near the top of her head.
Completely LOVE the action on her face!
But I’m with the above commenter, I just can’t get passed that dirty floor! Maybe they were going for “I’m-so-excited-for-my-husband-I-can’t-concentrate-on-cleaning”……but it just translates as “I’m-too-lazy-to-vacuum”.
The processing is BEAUTIFUL though!
Amazing Difference very impressed, Yup the dirty carpet is distracting.
I really wish I could afford these actions one day I hope one day…
I agree with the other commentors . . . she’s beautiful, but the first thing I notice is that dirty carpet, and I’m having a hard time getting past that . . .
Yes… the dirty carpet. Glad that I am not the only one who saw that as a huge issue. Funny that most thought it seemed to say lazy. The first thought I had was “nasty hotel”. She is pretty and the photo does make her look great. The carpet just keeps you from looking at her.
I’m glad you all like it other than the dirty carpet!
you can find it on my blog. Let me know what you think!
This shot is part of a series we did in an old abandoned house. It has all broken windows with glass and pieces of the house everywhere. I know it looks a little weird if you look at this as an individual image but I swear it works as part of the set.