Overview
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Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to bring out the best in your portraits by retouching faces, correcting distortion, removing distractions, cleaning up the background, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Challenges
- Resources
- Exercise files
- Removing distractions with the Spot Healing Brush
- Cloning away problems on a new layer
- Harnessing the magic of Content-Aware Fill
- Removing a lamppost and Content-Aware Crop
- Painting in a solid color into the background
- Improving the color and brightness of the background
- Fixing a backdrop with the Patch tool
- Challenge: Removing distractions
- Solution: Removing distractions
- Logo removal with the Patch tool
- Advanced Content-Aware Fill improvements
- Using Patch, Clone, and Heal for the best results
- Removing jewelry
- Removing lint
- Challenge: Removing a logo
- Solution: Removing a logo
- Thinning the body
- Sculpting with Liquify as a smart filter
- Fixing clothing and hair
- Removing unflattering distortion
- Fixing the ears
- Changing the face with Face-Aware Liquify
- Challenge: Removing distractions
- Solution: Removing distractions
- Simple skin clean up
- Removing acne and fixing discoloration
- Fixing sunburned skin
- Improving skin with Camera Raw and Photoshop
- Using the Healing Brush for consistent results
- Fixing shiny skin with Curves and masking
- Fixing details and brightness
- Challenge: Improving skin
- Solution: Improving skin
- Quick work with the Patch tool
- Natural looking wrinkle reduction
- Removing difficult shadows around the eyes
- Wrinkle reduction 101
- Removing wrinkles with blending modes
- Learning how to use the Dodge tool
- Expert wrinkle removal with the Dodge tool
- Challenge: Shadow removal
- Solution: Shadow removal
- Making eyes sparkle
- Brightening and coloring the eyes
- Creating vivid eye color
- Opening a closed eye
- Fixing eye details
- Improving the whites of the eyes
- Fixing a common issue with glasses
- Challenge: Adding sparkle and changing color
- Solution: Adding sparkle and changing color
- Whitening teeth
- Fixing a discolored tooth
- Changing makeup color on the lips
- Challenge: Teeth whitening
- Solution: Teeth whitening
- Changing hair color
- Hiding roots
- Removing stray hairs
- Removing stray hairs on a complex background
- Using select and mask to fix hair
- Challenge: Fixing stray hairs and improving color
- Solution: Fixing stray hairs and improving color
- What to do when the subject blinks
- Combining the best from two frames
- Challenge: Improving a group portrait
- Solution: Improving a group portrait
- Retouching a black and white portrait
- Removing and changing the background
- Applying creative effects to a portrait
- Challenge: Advanced background clean up
- Solution: Advanced background clean up
- Improving skin mini project
- Challenge: Improving skin
- Solution: Improving skin, part 1
- Solution: Advanced skin smoothing, part 2
- Next steps
