Photography, Retouching, and Life.
The free-writing platform of Pratik Naik. A mix of curated content and personal writings.
We’re giving away a FREE spot to our 5 day Masterclass. This 5 day retreat is a multi-purpose event that focuses on growing your creativity and expanding your skillset in a learning environment that is fun, relaxed, beautiful, and highly engaging! The beauty of Sweden serves as a backdrop to five instructors that span across different genres of photography, lighting specialties, retouching, production, business and marketing skill sets.
I don't know how I stumbled upon this, but I decided to hit "play" and then suddenly I found myself captivated by what I was seeing. I had the same level of captivation as I had with any beautiful trailer I'd watch. I'll be honest, I don't watch many wedding films, but these were different! They felt like movies. If there's something better than this out there, I don't know how much better it can get.
In jest of all the botched jobs on other magazine covers, they decided to release this cover for the Comedy Issue with the best/worst issues! How many can you spot?
If you’re experiencing a glitchy Liquify brush in Photoshop for Windows, this fix will take care of that.
Gene Bresler the founder of Catchlight (http://www.catchlightdigital.com/), a retouching studio/house located in Brooklyn, NYC. Putting it simply, he knows his shit. This podcast on the platform, “The Photo Banter” by Alex Gagne, goes into Gene’s beginnings, what it’s like being a great retoucher (and what makes it different from just having a strong skillset), making serious money, and work with high end brands.
What if there was something that allowed you to see an infinite amount of ways you could color grade an image? People always know what they don’t want, but figuring out what they like is the hard part. With the sheer amount of possible color variations that an image could lead to, the choices are almost infinite! And in that moment of realization, I came the idea for Infinite Color. It was born out of necessity for me. I was curious to see what it could do to my life and to others.
