To my eyes, it's almost believable but not quite there. Nothing tests the retoucher's abilities more than inserting a model into an unlikely scenario, like in the above image. Replacing Backgrounds with Unlikely Scenarios We'll move on with our last two examples.
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I could have gone a step further and toned down the highlights on her skin but left that in since somebody had to pay for that effect in the studio, to begin with! Otherwise, dampening highlights that inform us of directional light can be removed or altered to fit the client's vision. I also brightened her side closest to the main light source while darkening the right side of the image. Note that I added some magenta and reds to emulate the light ball behind her. It's important that the model's skin is as closely matched to the background as possible. This is where the real work begins, as I already alluded to earlier.Īs you can tell from the layer stack under 'night scene', I've done a few things to take into account exposure and color shifts. At this point, one can't just cut and paste the model directly onto a new background and call it good. The real photo compositing work begins for a retoucher when the client requests that their shots have their backgrounds replaced with radically different scenes. Replacing the Existing Background with a Clean Version
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This is the ideal professional setup for many reasons, one of which is for replacing backgrounds for editorial and commercial retouching purposes later on. For these examples, I'll be using an ideal setting: the photographer photographed the subject against a gray background. I'll be using the same image to demonstrate a few common requests that vary in how a retoucher approaches the composite. In this article, I'm going to discuss considerations of photo retouching in relation to replacing backgrounds. This is basically compositing, where you must consider the light, color, exposure values, shadows, and any number of other elements that may make the subject or the background conflict with one another if not handled properly. This is the point where photo retouchers start to earn their money. But it becomes a different story when you try to match a background that looks realistic. It's pretty much Photo Editing 101 for any retoucher with any experience. Removing backgrounds is usually the easy part.
Sometimes they inform me in advance but oftentimes requests like this come in spur-of-the-moment once the client is happy but then seeks more value to make use of their images. It's very common to receive requests from clients to remove or completely change the backgrounds when I'm retouching their images.
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