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...
One of the more difficult tasks in Photoshop has long been to make a car look like it is moving at a significant rate of speed. There are some third party applications that are typically used to get a really great look (and they do a pretty awesome job,) but with the addition of the...
When you are building a composite image, you have to ensure that each of the objects in your composite have a perspective that matches the image into which they are being placed. In this tutorial, we’re going to talk about how to find the horizon of your image and then how to find the vanishing...
In this tutorial, we will take a photo of a car on the street and cut it out and move it over to a different background and make it look as realistic as we can. We’re going to cover how to choose images that can work together, how to adjust the perspective of the background...
Vanishing Point in Photoshop is an amazing set of tools that allows us to determine the perspective of an image and then build a more complex set of perspective grids from our initial grid to then be able to retouch surfaces in perspective. We’ve got lots of brick in the image that I’m using in...
In this Photoshop CC tutorial, we’ll take a look at the power of the Color Range tool in Photoshop. We will look at selecting entire swatches of color, specific tones, how to refine a color range selection, how to make a difficult selection and use it as a mask for an Adjustment Layer, and much...
It’s all about Grow and Similar today in this tutorial about putting a new sky into your photo. We’ll talk about how to select a sky that has tree tips sticking up into it and replacing the sky as perfectly as we can by combining our selection with the Refine Edge command and then tweaking...