Technique notes from the studio floor, how we approach skin, metal, glass, paint and light, and what actually moves the needle on a product page.
Fashion RetouchingBoth techniques remove a blemish. Only one of them keeps the pore structure that makes skin read as skin at print resolution, and the choice depends on whether you are fixing colour or fixing light.
E-CommerceThe inside-neck composite is where a hollow-man edit is won or lost. Here is how we shoot for it, why the second capture matters more than the first, and how to keep the shoulder line from collapsing.
JewelleryGold, platinum and diamond each fail in a different way under studio light. A practical breakdown of reflection cleanup, facet contrast and the point at which polishing a stone starts to look fake.
AutomobileA car body is a mirror, which means every retouch is really a reflection edit. How we clean crew reflections out of a panel, keep the paint reading as metal, and composite a studio floor that does not float.
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