Using Adobe Photoshop + Camera Raw + Adobe Bridge, including shortcuts to speed up your editing time.
Identifying lighting conditions for white background, black background AND textured background equine portraits.
Continual control over lighting using masks, levels, dodge, burn, and vignettes, giving your horse depth and making your horse POP from the background.
Color control using multiple layers, masks, and Camera Raw Color Mixer, ensuring the horse’s coat is color corrected, without losing the quality of color throughout the tack.
Retouching blemishes using clone and spot healing tool.
Retouching eyes, including adding color with brushes, adding depth with dodge and burn, and enhancing eye lash shadows using J.Klein Photos custom brushes.
Art of cropping for Equine Portraits, creating a balance image, while retaining a flexible crop for any future printing needs.
Creating a realistic mask, including tricks using curves to ensure your mask is seamless, avoiding the sticker cut out look for images photographed at a lower depth of field.
Adding details of the mane, forelock, ear fuzz, and face hair, using J.Klein Photos custom brushes (2024 + 2025 editions), with a clone stamp.
Identifying the correct textures and customizing brush settings to retain details that are consistent with the textures naturally found on the horse.
Adding in white, black and textured backgrounds, providing variety to the client with minimal and easy steps to your photoshop document.
Customizing J.Klein Photos textured backgrounds with colors and levels, and placing shadows to create a realistic “textured background studio look.”
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