Chapter 16. Hands-on Architectural Retouching Project
In Chapter 15, we took a nice portrait and made it much nicer by toning down or completely removing distractions such as wrinkles and fly-away hair Throughout the process, the goal was to create a softer portrait that portrays the woman at her best, rather than exactly the way the camera captured her. The projects goals and the tools and techniques to achieve those goals were typical of soft-edge retouching. When someone looks at the finished print, he won't be comparing it to reality to make sure every wrinkle is accurately portrayed. He'll be viewing it from a more emotional perspective.
With the hotel image, shown in Figure 16.1, that we're working on in this chapter, we have a similar goal of altering the image to make it more pleasing to view. However, those alterations need to be done in a way that keeps the details of the building intact. Our retouching has to be very literal in nature so we preserve the reality of the building. The tools and techniques we use to accomplish this are characteristic of hard-edged retouching. Oddly enough, though, we have to make some serious adjustments to the perspective of this building in order to make it look more realistic — rather than keeping it the way it's portrayed by [he camera — and that's something we would never have considered ...
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