Welcome to part 9 of my 12-part retouching in Photoshop tutorial series! Today we’re covering sharpening and how I like to selectively sharpen. By the end of this tutorial, you will see how having the ability to apply a mask to individual smart filters would be SO nice (C’mon, Adobe!) I’ll walk you through how...
Two-thirds of the way home! It’s part 8 of our 12-part retouching tutorial series in Photoshop and today we’re talking about color grading and getting the colors right in your photo. We’ll look at color grading with channels in Curves, with Color Balance, and with the Gradient Map feature in Photoshop. See All 12 Parts!...
Let’s talk about getting the tone and contrast of the overall photo just perfect in this part 7 of our 12-part retouching series! I’ll cover Adjustment Layers, Curves, Levels, reducing contrast, Black and White Multiplied layers, and more! If you want smooth and beautiful and moody cinematic tones in your images, you’re going to love...
Here in part 6 of our 12-part series, we will talk about dodging and burning and how to use it to bring in that selective contrast that we talked about way back in part 1 of this series. I’ll show you my two favorite techniques for non-destructive dodging and burning and how I like to...
Moving along in this series to part 5, we’re going to talk about fine hair retouching and doubling down on frequency separation (covered in part 3) to create the layers we need and then zoom in on the hair and fill in areas that are missing hair and cleaning up dark streaks in the hair...
We’re up to part 4 of this 12-part series! Today we’ll talk about all those important facial details, how to retouch eyes professionally, how to clean up a pair of lips, and how to trim the eyebrows to get a perfect line and cover any stray hair. We’ll tag-team off of the frequency separation that...
This is part 3 of my “HOW TO RETOUCH” Photoshop series. This tutorial will focus on how to retouch skin and the right way to smooth skin and remove blemishes like acne or scars from the skin of your subject. We will use a method called frequency separation to split the colors and details apart...
In this part 2 of the “HOW TO RETOUCH” series I will focus on making any big “pixel pushing” changes to my image before we do anything else in terms of skin retouching, tonal adjustments, sharpening, or dodging and burning. We will cover using Liquify on a Smart Object non-destructively and also removing a large...
In this tutorial, we’ll talk about using the Camera RAW editor to edit and begin the long photo retouch in Photoshop CC. I’ll teach you what I look for in terms of the tones in the image, the sharpness, camera profile, creating a smart object, and more! I will also take a moment and cover...
This tutorial is not about any specific technique, but instead about how I look at an image as I go through a retouching process and why I do one thing after another in the order I do when retouching images. A little while ago I got a comment on one of my YouTube videos asking...
In the age of incredibly high ISOs and camera sensors that seem to get better by the day, noise and grain are not nearly as much of a problem as they used to be, but when you need some help turning down the grain or noise in your photos there are some great options in...
Of all the sharp things in life that can hurt you, the sharpness in Photoshop will actually do good things for your photos and this tutorial is all about how to find the best sharpening for your photos. We’re going to cover the Unsharp Mask Sharpening, the Smart Sharpening, Sharpening in Camera RAW, and a...