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After years of study and countless hours of trial and error manipulating my own catalog of images, I’ve finally arrived at a system of digital photo retouching with Photoshop techniques which will greatly improve the quality of any digital photograph.  Poor shots can be sometimes be saved.  Good shots can be great and great shots can make viewers say “wow, that’s a pro shot – I’d like to buy a print!”

But isn’t using Photoshop on a digital photograph cheating?

Before the advent of digital photography, film photographers such as Ansel Adams manipulated their final images using darkroom techniques such as “dodging” and “burning” to lighten or darken particular areas of a print.  Additionally, processing chemicals on film caused different reactions which would give the print a different feeling.  If you’re a purist, using a darkroom to make artistic prints, you’re not likely reading this website.  You’re a digital photographer and you understand that a digital camera is like a lens over a scanner.  The sensor captures the light reflectivity of objects and processes an image based on the digital values of those pixels.  While today’s digital cameras do a remarkable job of rendering accurate pixels there is almost always a slight color cast to every digital photograph.  The light that nature provides often high in contrast, hiding the details in shadows and “blowing out” the highlights.  Using Photoshop on a digital image is like making artistic, creative and pleasing use of light in the darkroom to make the image more pleasing to the eye.

Enough theory, let’s look at some before and after shots using my photo retouching Photoshop techniques:

Eagle before photoshop retouching

Eagle after photoshop retouching

Here’s another before and after example of digital photo retouching with Photoshop:

Las Vegas sunset before photoshop retouching

Airport at Sunset after retouching

(By the way, I won a magazine cover contest with that digital photo, not to brag but it’s true.)

See More Before and After Photos in the Photoshop Retouching Gallery

See Also Free Old Photograph Restoration – Before and After

I also use Photoshop to take an otherwise, somewhat boring photograph and make it into something resembling art.  Take the next couple of examples – high contrast black and white (near infrared) and a sort of pop art style:

Shack in the desert before infrared b&w technique

Shack after black and white ir effect in Photoshop

Old car before Photoshop pop art technique

Old car after Photoshop

Photographs can be cropped and resized, enlarged for large posters and gallery framed with my Photoshop service:

Gallery print

HERE’S THE OFFER:

I’m so confident that you’ll absolutely love the way your picture will look after my retouching in Photoshop that I’m willing to offer you a free, no obligation trial.  To take advantage of this free offer, scroll down and fill out the contact form and attach a photograph (preferably a RAW camera image or JPEG at full resolution).  Please zip large files.  If you’re not sure how to zip a file, fill out the contact form with “Can’t Zip” in the body and we’ll figure out another way to get your high resolution image to me for Photoshop retouching.  In a couple of days, I’ll email you with a link to a password protected gallery where you can view your retouched digital image, buy prints, coffee mugs, t-shirts, and other products from MPIX including a digital download of your image.  If you don’t love the Photoshop retouching of your digital photograph, you don’t have to buy anything.  I can’t imagine a more risk free offer than that.  If you have many digital images to process, fill out the contact form and describe your project and we can go from there.