Edit breakdown before and after •The main programs I used for this one were Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, InDesign and Procreate. The base image was 72p resolution so I first imported to InDesign to upsample and enlarge. It makes the image lossy but I clean it up later. •First I worked on his phone and filled in the gap compositing with layers I created from other images of his face. From there I filled in and cleaned up discoloration and edges. •set crop constraints to my usual 8.5x11 and cropped out the rest of his arm. •imported into Lightroom for color and light adjustments, and spot removed background distractions, blemishes, jpg artifacts and color banding from enlargement. Applied overall sharpen and luminosity correction. •back to Photoshop for skin retouch, lip gloss action and enhancement, and sweat overlay •import to procreate for detail refinement using the dedicated paint tools I normally use to fine enhance my own photography and add a grain layer to imitate ISO like an actual photograph. The end! #SEONGHWA #성화 Before. After.

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