“Add a little old world charm to your studio photos with a painterly look. This tutorial goes over perfecting the skin and eyes, adding painted textures, blurring effects and applying lens distortion to draw your subject closer.”

– Shannon Squires Photography

In this edit you will learn how to get the popular painterly effect in studio. You’ll learn advanced methods on how to get rid of distractions and imperfections, change the color of your studio backdrop, how to add texture without using overlays, adding haze/matting, edit your images overall toning as well as skin tones, fix hair and clothing, sharpening, make your subject and eyes really pop, contouring, dodging and burning, how to edit skin using frequency separation and more… all through hand editing!