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How were professional photos edited in the 70s-80s (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by paint3dbird@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro
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was looking at some old photos of Kate bush, Stevie Nicks, and some other celebrities photoshoots from that time period and admiring the glowy affect or the purple and red colour palette on the photos wondering how I can achieve that same effect and then I realized that they did not have online editing software or even internet but the photos still look very nice and not like raw images I usually see. This may be a dumb question, I am not a photographer and do not know much about all this stuff but I am just curious.

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[–] NC750x_DCT@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

For the person themselves, the glowy skin is mainly down to 'painting the image' AKA retouching. You can see versions of this in B&W photos hand coloured: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-colouring_of_photographs

I did a headshot for a modelling friend hoping to get back into the business in the mid 80's. Another mutual friend's dad (an award winning commercial photographer/printer) did the print & retouching. It was almost as if the print had been painted when you looked at it close up, but from three feet away the model was flawless, not a hair out of place & no skin blemishes.