Today I spent most of the day retouching the images of the SeiBella’s products. Retouching is as important as lighting in this kind of images. One of the main goals consists in making sure that the logo shows visible and bright in every single image. Sometimes this is not possible to get in camera so we have to add it in post. General clean up is also important to make the products look perfect. Something that I learned makes these kind of products look very high-end is dodging and burning. This technique enhances the product’s packaging and makes it look more dramatic and expensive. It is incredible how much a bottle of hair product can change when you apply dodge and burn.
I have been getting better at cutout and clipping mask. I have been learning how to use the pen tool better and better. The pen tool is a very advanced took that is used to create clipping masks. I also learned about the path panel and how to use it and how much time is saves when you are doing different clipping masks in a single image. Most of the images I did had to be clipped masked and some of the glamour shots I just had to make sure that the background was 100% pure white.
I won’t be working tomorrow Friday since I did extra hours this week and I have completed my hours for the week already.