Beauty Swatch TV: Photoshopping Lip Swatches
Most people are often surprised at the simplicity of how I approach swatching.
I actually just work with what I have at home – a shade lamp with cool lighting & a point & shoot camera (Canon IXUS 870IS). When it comes to Photoshop, I use it mainly to crop, watermark, and adjust lighting / sharpness to bring out the colour to its true shade. And that’s about it really.
Using keyboard shortcuts (yes I’m nerdy enough to remember them, even on a Mac!) and pre-designed watermark templates is a huge time saver & I stick to 500 pixels most of the time so that my images are evenly displayed on the website.
Here is a video demo of what I usually do with my lip swatches. I hope you’ll find this video useful in producing swatches for your blog.
And yes, those 2 foreheads belong to me & my husband, from a photograph on our wedding day!
Leave a comment below if there is any other topic you’d like a tutorial on, or a sneak peek in the Beauty Swatch scene!
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Great video Akisa!
A suggestion to make life even easier, save your resizing to 500px and setting watermark as Actions. This way, just with a click of a button, your images will be automatically resized, another click, automatically watermarked in the spot that you have set standard in each picture
Thanks Tine!! You’re so helpful as always!! I will definitely do that for the next batch of swatches
I’ve been living under a rock!!! It never crossed my mind that a lot of people are photoshopping their photos…. I thought only pros would do that. lol This video is very helpful for me! Thanks for sharing!
Hi Lydia! That’s why I thought I’d share this video to just be open and transparent about what I do to photos, given I have a really simple set up for photography!