Retouch a Portrait in 15 Minutes

Accentuate and perfect each shot by learning how to brighten and enhance features, how to create flawless but believable skin texture, and how to improve overall tone, color and detail to make quality portraits

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Vincent Versace

Release Date: 2008-02-13

Lessons

Housekeeping

<p>Photoshop plugins, making an image map, and setting up Photoshop</p>

Duration: 0 mins 51 seconds

Making an Image Map

<p>Set up image maps to help organize the changes you want to make to your image</p>

Duration: 4 mins 26 seconds

Blemish Removal and Overview

<p>Overview and discussion of why to work on an image, as well as the Global to granular analyzing approach</p>

Duration: 23 mins 40 seconds

Red Cast Removal of Skin Tone

<p>Using Hue and Saturation Adjustment layers, sample points, and how to create an even layer mask using opacity, and using layer Opacity to add the finishing touches.</p>

Duration: 9 mins 31 seconds

Creating a Dodge and Burn Layer

<p>Create a new layer using the blend mode softlight, how to see what a neutral gray layer looks like, and how to dodge using the fade tool</p>

Duration: 4 mins 58 seconds

Addressing the Light Areas

<p>Using the exit strategy approach to go back and repair the image</p>

Duration: 8 mins 22 seconds

Smoothing Out the Skin

<p>Using surface blur to create smooth skin and how it works, brushing strategy for the surface blur layer, and tightening the layer mask</p>

Duration: 11 mins 39 seconds

Adding Notation, Using Nik Dynamic Skin Softener

<p>Using Dynamic Skin Softener, using and understanding the Notes tool</p>

Duration: 5 mins 52 seconds

Creating Believable Skin Texture

<p>Using an Overlay Layer to create skin texture, and adding Monochromatic Noise</p>

Duration: 4 mins 46 seconds

Fixing the Eye Lash

<p>Warping a layer to transform the shape of the eyelash, creating a Master Layer, using the Clone Stamp tool to replicate eyeliner</p>

Duration: 9 mins 14 seconds

Adding a Mona Lisa Smile

<p>Using the Liquefy filter and the Forward Warp tool</p>

Duration: 8 mins 43 seconds

Leading the Eye Through the Picture

<p>Discussion of what contrast and unsharp mask is and the strategy of how to use them</p>

Duration: 12 mins 7 seconds