57. Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop CC

      

It was relatively easy to edit these pictures of Charlie and Joram since I am already quite familiar with how to use Adobe Photoshop from my Photography A2 course.

At first I used Lighroom to correct the skin however after a while I got annoyed and changed to Photoshop because it is a lot quicker, as you are able to select larger areas and have it still look natural. Essentially, I just used Lightroom to apply the preset to the two images.

For Joram, I adjusted a few things to make his face look neater:

I used the paint tool and smudge tool to gave him a proper hairline that looked freshly cut - you can't really see a clear line in the original. I blurred the edge so that it looked realistic as well.

I neatened his eyebrow using the smudge tool and the healing bush. I left the gaps in between the hairs so it didn't look like he got them done.

In addition to this, I also evened out his skin tone. His cheek especially has some light vs dark patches to I used the healing brush to blur these and give the area more or less the same colour skin 

Since we see less of Charlie's face, there was less to do, all I really had to do was clear any blemishes and even out the skin where his beard was:

I also neatened up his eyebrow using the smudge tool, because it seemed a little too zig-zaggy

and Charlie's beard hair area because the skin here generally is greyish. Either way, I think I did quite a good job here. I used a preset that I got from VSCO called Kodak Gold 100 + Alt which softened the image whilst also increased the contrast, saturation and increased the colder magenta tones, which I thought looked quite boyish (I don't know why).

Mantz -  Before/After:

Lane - Before/After

I tried to do the same for the pictures that were taken with Charlie's iPhone 6, however I was extremely disappointed with the quality of the images.

If you look at the image of either of them up close you can see how grainy and crappy they look:

AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THESE WERE ACHIEVED AFTER A MASS AMOUNT OF SMOOTHING AND SPOT (I.E GRAIN) REMOVAL/BLURRING. IF I SMOOTH THESE OUT ANY MORE, THEY ARE GOING TO RESEMBLE SIMS ANIMATIONS. I HAVE GIVEN UP. I'M NOT USING THIS IMAGE.