Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching with Chris Orwig

Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching with Chris Orwig

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In Photoshop CS5: Portrait Retouching, professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his extensive experience with Photoshop to focus on the specific tools every photographer needs to adjust images and keep them looking genuine. This course explores this program's deep resources for portrait retouching and inspires photographers to do their creative best with everything from blemishes to backdrops. Exercise files are included with the course.

Welcome 2m 22s

Introduction 1m 31s

Using the exercise files 51s

1. Getting Started 24m 48s

Initial retouching considerations 5m 4s

Retouching workflow strategies 2m 31s

Making notes for a retouching road map 1m 31s

Using a Wacom tablet 4m 11s

Finding resources and inspiration 2m 18s

Choosing a format: RAW or DNG 5m 50s

Creating a custom retouching workspace 3m 23s

2. Basic Color Correction 16m 15s

White balancing in Adobe Camera Raw 4m 26s

White balancing with curves 2m 22s

Advanced white balancing with curves 2m 59s

White balancing and masking 6m 28s

3. Color-Correcting Skin Tones 26m 36s

Introducing skin tone color correction 3m 23s

Color-correcting skin by the numbers 5m 8s

Color-correcting lighter skin tones 2m 8s

Color-correcting darker skin tones 3m 55s

Color-correcting medium skin tones 2m 59s

Correcting color with skin tone and neutral content 3m 53s

Correcting color with the Curves dialog and Hue/Saturation 5m 10s

4. Reducing Blemishes and Cleaning Up in Adobe Camera Raw 17m 26s

Creative tip: Leaving crumbs 1m 13s

Using the Spot Removal tool 4m 42s

Cleaning up a portrait backdrop 3m 29s

Reducing wrinkles in a Camera Raw workflow 2m 35s

Reducing skin shine 2m 28s

Removing blemishes across multiple frames 2m 59s

5. Reducing Blemishes and Cleaning Up in Photoshop 59m 23s

Using Content-Aware Fill 3m 47s

Using Content-Aware Fill to create variations 3m 27s

Removing graphics from clothing 4m 12s

Removing tags from clothing 8m 58s

Removing distractions near subjects 5m 12s

Extending a studio backdrop 8m 20s

Removing blemishes from the face 5m 36s

Short project: Cleaning a child's face 7m 33s

Reducing hot spots 5m 50s

Taming flyaway hairs 6m 28s

6. Cleanup Project 11m 39s

Cleaning up the small details 3m 54s

Cleaning up larger areas 5m 16s

Making a final evaluation 2m 29s

7. Correcting Tone 43m 10s

Creative tip: Artistic sensibility 1m 31s

Correcting tone with curves and masking 4m 23s

Correcting tone with blending modes and masking 6m 49s

Using Shadow/Highlights to brighten shadows 4m 6s

Combining blending modes 5m 42s

Reducing shadows by dodging 4m 34s

Using curves and Color Range masking to darken highlights 6m 58s

Redirecting light with curves and masking 3m 52s

Using Shadow/Highlights to improve exposure 5m 15s

8. Reducing and Removing Wrinkles 37m 59s

Reducing shallow wrinkles with the Healing brush 3m 14s

Reducing wrinkles with the Clone Stamp tool 6m 35s

Reducing wrinkles with Soft Light blending 7m 14s

Using curves to reduce wrinkles 5m 22s

Using the Burn and Dodge tools on wrinkles 6m 24s

Using Clone Stamp, Healing, and Curves tools on wrinkles 5m 37s

Fine-tuning and making final adjustments 3m 33s

9. Enhancing Eyes 46m 8s

Adding sparkle to eyes 5m 54s

Enhancing eyes with adjustment layers and blending 9m 31s

Changing eye color 5m 15s

Adding a catch light 2m 19s

Whitening eyes 8m 12s

Creating "Hollywood Eyes" 4m 59s

Modifying pupils and eye edges 2m 55s

Eye sharpening with the High Pass filter 4m 18s

Sharpening eyes behind glasses 2m 45s

10. Enhancing Eyelashes and Eyebrows 23m 13s

Reshaping an eyebrow 5m 39s

Darkening an eyebrow 2m 7s

Working on eyebrows and adding eyelashes 6m 44s

Adding mascara to increase eyelash density 2m 45s

Adding eyelashes 5m 58s

11. Improving Lips 21m 13s

Creative tip: What makes a good retoucher? 2m 5s

Enhancing lip color and tone 3m 4s

Using curves and blending modes to improve lips 6m 18s

Adding dimension with curves and masking 4m 57s

Improving lips with the Burn and Dodge tools 4m 49s

12. Enhancing Teeth 10m 42s

Whitening teeth with the Dodge and Sponge tools 4m 13s

Whitening teeth with Hue and Saturation 2m 43s

Removing a gap between teeth 3m 46s

13. Improving Hair 33m 40s

Patching a gap in hair 4m 47s

Removing a gap in hair with the Patch tool 3m 22s

Covering hair discoloration 3m 23s

Brightening hair for emphasis 3m 43s

Removing flyaway hairs 5m 37s

Adding thickness to thinning hair 5m 21s

Filling in a receding hairline 7m 27s

14. Improving Makeup 40m 22s

Brightening shadowed areas on the face 3m 7s

Adding color to the cheeks and eyelids 6m 36s

Modifying lip color 4m 32s

Modifying eye makeup color 3m 36s

Using curves to change eye makeup 3m 37s

Increasing color saturation and variety of makeup 5m 42s

Using Selective Color to create vibrant color 2m 32s

Creating dimensions with contours 4m 50s

Creating contours with painting and blending modes 4m 37s

Additional makeup resources 1m 13s

15. Enhancing Skin 37m 27s

Creative tip: Using fewer layers 1m 0s

Reducing skin variations and freckles 3m 58s

Cleaning up small skin blemishes 3m 48s

Improving the skin on the face 4m 46s

Beauty skin workflow 8m 48s

Reducing blemishes in the background 3m 52s

Advanced skin enhancement 4m 30s

Reducing tan lines with the clone stamp tool 3m 8s

Reducing tan lines with the burn tool 3m 37s

16. Softening Skin in Practice 1h 2m

Creating a soft, glamorous look 5m 2s

Example 1: Basic skin cleanup 4m 12s

Example 1: Skin softening 7m 11s

Example 2: Skin softening on a color beauty photograph 9m 1s

Example 3: Reducing brightness with curves 2m 51s

Example 3: Basic cleanup 3m 12s

Example 3: Reducing color variation 3m 45s

Example 3: Smoothing skin with the High Pass filter 7m 44s

Example 4: Viewing an image in multiple windows 3m 14s

Example 4: Improving tone 2m 48s

Example 4: Final fashion smoothing 6m 45s

Advanced masking and skin softening 6m 17s

17. Making Body Improvements 58m 35s

Adding dimension with painting and Soft Light 4m 11s

Adding dimension with curves and masking 4m 28s

Using bristle tip brushes to burn and dodge 4m 16s

Thinning with Liquify 4m 47s

Thinning with Puppet Warp 4m 5s

Using Puppet Warp to change shape 5m 15s

Making enhancements with Free Transform 4m 55s

Extending Free Transform with the Warp command 3m 41s

Modifying color and light 5m 47s

Changing an expression with Liquify 2m 17s

Brightening with curves and masking 6m 37s

Modifying skin brightness and dress color 4m 2s

Increasing the height of the subject 4m 14s

18. Structural Image Enhancements 39m 7s

Creative tip: The ethics of retouching 1m 0s

Combining multiple exposures for group portraits 5m 15s

Thinning with Free Transform 5m 13s

Reshaping with the Warp tool 1m 53s

Reshaping with Liquify 2m 52s

Creating simple symmetry in the face 2m 47s

Removing distortion in a portrait 6m 24s

Tailor-fitting a wedding dress 6m 57s

Changing perspective on a fashion photograph 6m 46s

19. Retouching Workflow: Project 119m 22s

Brightening the shadows 5m 35s

Improving the eyes 2m 31s

Modifying the background 3m 41s

Brightening hair and leaves 2m 23s

Brightening the subject with curves 1m 59s

Final sharpening 3m 13s

20. Retouching Workflow: Project 230m 5s

Cleaning up the small details 3m 29s

Improving the color and tone 3m 45s

Modifying the skin tone 2m 46s

Brightening dark hair root color 3m 34s

Enhancing the lips 3m 38s

Sharpening the eyes 7m 29s

Final color adjustments 5m 24s

Conclusion35s

Goodbye 35s

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