Have you ever been photographed with your best mood and with your best business suit but you have the reddest eyes that you have ever seen? Have you ever sat on the greenest lawn and your lovely home as the background with the sweetest smile on your face yet captured in the photograph with a skin tone you do not find attractive? Honest and revealing self-portraits are very hard to come by, and you just cannot afford to lose them to some imperfections because of poor lighting, obtrusive objects, and unintended props. Intermediate portrait retouching could help you reclaim the beauty that you feel inside when you pose for your portraits.

The Options

With new imaging technologies and tools, it is quite possible to correct any imperfections that could mar your self-portraits. Some of the things that they could perform are the following:

• Teeth whitening is a very common request from clients who smoke and those whose portraits suffer from poor lighting where shadows fall on their teeth.
  
• Skin smoothing or correction is available to those who want to improve their skin tone and color-which could have been affected by the light exposure during the photo shoot. Even those with not-so-fair skin tones could request for this intermediate portrait retouching service to make their skin lighter and those who are pale could request for a more healthy looking skin.
  
• Brightness correction can be applied to portraits that are either too dark or too bright. This retouching technique can improve the overall aura of the portrait. If you want your portrait to be more mysterious, you can request a decrease in brightness. If you want it to exude happiness, then request for more brightness.
  
• Sharpness adjustments are very useful in improving the focus on the objects in the portraits that you would like to come out as the important things to you. In fact, you can also have the same request to highlight certain facial features you truly love about yourself.
  
• Color conversions and adjustments are techniques in intermediate portrait retouching where you could have a full-colored photo converted to black and white, or vice versa.
  
• Eye redness removal where you do not have to suffer the jokes of friends that you were sleepy, having a having over, or stressed during the photo shoot. It will also make your portrait more attractive to look at.
  

The Joys

Portraits are vessels of beauty, of your beauty to be exact. Bad portraits are usually shoved under old magazines and newspapers or worse thrown into garbage bins, which could be very frustrating because you paid for them and spent time to prepare for the shots. Intermediate portrait retouching techniques could best give you the following joys:

• Redemption of a special moment where you find yourself loving yourself and smiling to the world around you
  
• Reveal and unravel more about yourself where you could show the people you love who you are and what are the most special things in you
  
• Show the world more of your kindness and softness; and, entice it with your mystery