How did you learn/develop your processing style?

[Devrij]

Obviously, this is a personal thing, but I feel like the PP I do doesn't really get the most out of my images (particularly with portraits). They also lack a sense of style, and tend to be more documentary than artistic (not always a bad thing, of course), and I'm not sure what sort of thing I could do to make that jump from tidying contrast and colours to being creative.

Generally I'll make adjustments in camera RAW (don't have LR) and then if it's that kind of shot I'll do the skin smoothing/cloning etc in CS5, but I have no idea what else I could try to mess around with different looks.

I feel like I'm missing a trick somewhere. So how did you guys learn the techniques you currently use to produce your "look"?

I'm not trying to copy anyone's style btw, but the tutorials I find tend to be quite basic, and I'm looking for something a bit more advanced to add more polish to my shots.

 

[Devrij]

Cheers. Typically that's all I do myself, so at least Im not alone there! I think I may just need to spend a bit more time reading about photographers whose work I like and try out more techniques. I follow a poop ton of togs on Gplus so hopefully I'll find some tips on there.