[Posted by the Motive Retouching Team] A client of ours recently received a stunning compliment from her headshot printer: her headshot was the “best he’d seen.” We at Motive are happy to take credit for it, as far as the retouching goes. But what else makes this stand out?
[Posted by the Motive Retouching Team] As you know, we at Motive Retouching are professional headshot retouchers (online!). When it comes to your headshots, it’s our job to correct the little mistakes and inconsistencies while maintaining your natural look, all of which adds up to a huge improvement.
But remember, retouching means we bring out the best in the source material. And our job comes at the end of the headshot process. Actors who love their headshots know that everything leading up to the retouching must be done with care in order to ensure the best pictures possible. The better the original, the better the retouched version.
We want you to end up with the best headshots you can, so we’ve compiled a list of tips, tricks, and pointers to make sure you love your pictures (from the perspective of actors, clients, industry workers AND our retouchers):
To us, retouching is an art, and our canvas is you, the actor. You have the makeup artist, the photographer, and the retoucher: we all are artists whose job it is to show off the best “you” we can. The difference being that the retoucher’s work happens after the headshot’s been taken.
