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On the importance of later revision.

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On the importance of later revision.

Tone style should be paid attention to in any movie, because if it is a portrait of a character, the importance of the decoration of the character is the premise, and the clothing texture is the second. But if it is a costume album, then the characters don't need too much repair, and the importance of clothing texture has to be put forward. As for how to realize it technically, we should study and study curves, color balance, optional colors, hue saturation, liquefaction, stamping, repair brush, soft light, sharpening and so on.

First, color matching style

This is something that almost everyone cares about, and its importance is definitely the first important thing. Representative styles are: sugar water, small fresh, black and white, film, Japan and South Korea, HDR, Europe and America, picturesque, etc. Now we analyze the retouching system horizontally, but if we analyze it vertically, are the color matching techniques of those styles mentioned above not related?

A photo, no matter what style, is nothing more than several indicators, such as color temperature and hue, brightness contrast and saturation. Different styles are nothing more than the strength of these indicators. For example, Europe and America have changed from low brightness to high contrast; Small freshness is a change of high and low contrast. In fact, every style is a change of play on its own basis. Learning color matching is not learning a fixed routine, but grasping the key points of each style. In this way, no matter how you tune it, it is a style, and this style is still there. Retouching is a process of recreating the photos taken by photographers, and retouching in the new communication environment is no longer equivalent to early retouching. Limited by software and technology, the early work of retouching is very simple, and it is not an independent creation at all.

At present, the post-retouching work is very complicated, not only simple retouching, but also another artistic creation of photographic works: for example, adding 3D, illustration and other artistic forms to the works to form diversified image processing methods. This is beyond the ability of ordinary photographers. Technology enables decoration to expand infinitely, from animal hair to space scenes. Therefore, post-processing can achieve various effects that previous photography can not achieve, make up for the lack of artistic imagination, and is a creative extension of the photography stage. Some photography categories have reached the point where they cannot survive without retouchers. It should be said that the application scope and importance of the retoucher's work are completely different from those in the past, which provides conditions and preconditions for the professional development of retouchers.

Second, other aspects.

(1) character

No matter how the color is adjusted, remember that if the subject is a person, then it must be remembered that this person must look good, which involves retouching, texture, three-dimensional sense, skin color, liquefaction and other processes. After skin repair, it must have texture, and it must be concave and convex, not a flat face without texture, and it must be like itself after liquefaction.

(2) Scenes

The processing of background is also a very important link, paying attention to the sense of bringing in, especially in the location. The taller the film, the more attention is paid to the background processing. Who would want to shoot on location in a messy background? Even if it is the solid background of the interior, not to mention the obvious problem of footprints and creases, even if the background is uneven and the light is excessively uneven, these large fragments on the tall will not appear.

(3) Clothing

Like the characters, the color tone is no matter how good, but even the texture of my clothes can't be seen. Will he watch it? Not to mention the high-demand industry such as advertising brochures, even Taobao display attaches great importance to the texture of clothing. The technical point here is actually equivalent to the character's modification technique, which is the basic skill of the retoucher.

Third, the progress of current retouching

Let's take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of Photoshop first. First of all, the advantage is that Photoshop can be edited at pixel level and has powerful functions. Besides editing existing pictures, users can also use Photoshop to make pictures, such as adding fonts and vector patterns. The layer function in Photoshop allows pictures to be edited in layers, and can also be modified in combination with layers. In the same layer, users can use the layer mask function to select the part to edit. PS can record a series of editing actions and then apply them to different pictures. There are also different selection and repair tools, all of which are powerful editing tools. What are the shortcomings of PS? Batch processing is inconvenient; Photoshop is suitable for and designed for processing single pictures. Although you can use the camera RAW plug-in to process raw files, the batch processing function of Photoshop itself is not powerful. Difficult to use: PS is powerful, but it takes a long time to learn how to use it.

Fourth, the reasons for the retouching

We all know for sure that everyone wants beautiful photos. No matter how it was shot or after proper post-retouching, it is all right! If the original picture taken directly by our camera/mobile phone is already beautiful, there is no problem if we don't retouch the picture later.

If there are some flaws in the original picture itself, such as monotonous color, lack of hierarchy, insufficient exposure, poor composition, etc., then the photos after post-retouching will look much better, which is also the necessity of post-retouching. But even so, some people will question whether your retouching is too fake. The original picture is obviously more real. Well, look at the color you fixed. The original picture is not like this. The original picture is obviously bright here. Why did you dim it?

There are still some people who have certain thinking and always think that the color and exposure directly from the camera can best restore the real scene. No, the camera is our man-made machine. The machine is far from being as real as what our human eyes see. Moreover, due to the different light, viewing angle and parameters, the color, exposure and real scene will be different when shooting. The original image of the camera is not equal to the most realistic picture seen by the naked eye.

Photography is an artistic expression, and any art has a certain degree of romanticism and subjectivism in it. For example, we often recite an ancient poem: Fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March, the white emperor shines in the clouds, and they sit at night and love LAM Raymond. This poem sounds beautiful, artistic and imaginative. If we really look at the real scenes described by these poets now, there are no such beautiful fireworks, no such beautiful colorful clouds and no such beautiful maple trees, that's all. But poetry is literature and art, we need artistic conception and imagination, and it is impossible without romance. Literati and poets can describe a pool of stagnant water skillfully and vividly with beautiful words. Why can't photographers make the picture amazing and moving through the early and late technical techniques? So is photography. Beautiful and artistic pictures and beautiful pictures are what we are looking for. No matter what method or equipment is used, as long as the photo looks good, it's OK! You can say, what can be done well in the early stage, why should it go through the later stage? That's true, but sometimes it can't be done well in the early stage and can be made up later. Why not? Truth is important, but it is the best way to realize your ideal picture in the later stage of digital photography. But who says the truth is beautiful? It's not true later? Or is your late technology simply not enough? Usually, people who always say that the post-production is not true or false are mostly people who don't know the post-production technology because the original picture is not well taken. They just blindly reject the later retouching and can't grasp the scale of the later retouching. What we can do later is to make a second composition adjustment to the photo, such as cleaning up stains and impurities, flattening, rotating and cutting. And the contrast between brightness and darkness; Adjustment of color and tone.