Gritty Photoshop Portrait Retouching Tutorial

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As many of you know I spend almost no time in Photoshop retouching any of my photos. I primarily do all my tweaking inside of lightroom and leave it at that.

Just because that is how I handle editing my own portraits does not mean that is the only way. I reached out to my friend Nathaniel Dodson who runs Tutvid.com to see what he could do with one of my files. I sent him over a headshot I took of Matisyahu while in my loft just to see what direction he would take it.

I am so amazed at all of the different actions and changes you can put one image through. I guarantee if you were to attempt to edit this RAW file you would come out with a different result. What one person thinks is a killer edit someone else may not agree. But, in the end you will not please everyone, some people will like it others may not.

The great thing about art is it is subjective, it's in the eye of the beholder. I think there is so much to learn in this video, so many things I have never considered myself when it comes to editing portraits.

Below you will find the step by step process that Nathaniel took to get to his final image.

Welcome folks! I'm Nathaniel from over at tutvid.com Today in this tutorial we'll use
a bunch of Photoshop's features to transform a simply lit portrait headshot into a gritty
photograph with beautiful tones and edges sharper than a double-edged
sword.

We'll touch up the skin and build a gritty tone using Adjustment Layers in Photoshop. I am using Photoshop
CS6, but you should be able to use much older versions of Photoshop as well.

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