Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
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Running Time: 2 minutes
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial quickly shows how to Duplicate image. Why would you want to Duplicate an image? Well, maybe you need to make an image greyscale, but still need to keep the original. Or maybe you want to create a new variant. Who knows. This is just a simple Photoshop 101 How To video.
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Running Time: 5 minutes
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial for beginners is about using the Levels tool in Photoshop, and how it can be used for contrast and color balance on your photographs. Levels are used to adjust brightness, contrast, and tonal range by specifying what you want for the pure black, pure white, and midtones in a histogram.
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Running Time: 9 minutes
This Adobe Photoshop Cloning Tutorial is about the High Pass and Low Pass Frequency Separation method of cloning. We covered many different topics in our Photoshop Extended Cloning Video Tutorial, but we wanted to give you this advanced way to clone, as a sample of the content you can find in the full video.
If you use the Clone Stamp Tool, Healing Brush, or Spot Healing Brush straight onto a layer, you are making an exact clone with little control over the fine details. If you approach your clone with a High Pass Layer for texture, and a Low Pass layer for color and tone, you greatly increase your ability to soften or remove skin blemishes, facial hair, and even pores, without a dreaded repeating
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Running Time: 8 minutes
This Adobe Photoshop Tutorial video will show you how to use the Channel Mixer. This is the fourth of four videos about working with channels. We will explain how to use the channel mixer, and when you would want to use it. Before you watch this video, we strongly recommend you watch the previous Adobe Photoshop tutorial about the Color Channel and Alpha Channel, and then you can then follow this one withone about the Spot Channel if you havent seen it yet.
Cloning in Adobe Photoshop is an important skill to master for any photo retoucher. The more tools you learn to use, the better your cloning will be for the images you retouch. You have the Clone Stamp Tool, Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, and Patch Tool. Once you get those under your belt, there are more advanced tools that you can use, like Content Aware, and Vanishing Point. Let's take a look at these in some detail.
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Running Time: 8 minutes
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial video will introduce Spot Channels. This is the third of four videos about working with channels. We will explain what Spot Channels are, and how they differ from regular Color Channels. Before you watch this video, we recommend you watch the previous Adobe Photoshop tutorial about Color Channels and Alpha Channels, and you can then follow this one with the Channel Mixer.
Spot colors are intended to be used with CMYK for printing. These will allow you to add extra colors for press such as PMS, create “bump plates”, or for detailed varnishes. The can be used to add a 5th color to a CMYK print run, or limit the image to a two color duotone image. Used with Quark
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Running Time: 8 minutes
This Photoshop video tutorial will introduce Alpha Channels. This is the second of four videos about working with channels. We will explain what Alpha Channels are, and how they differ from regular Color Channels. Before you watch this video, we recommend you watch the previous Adobe Photoshop tutorial about Color Channels, and you can then follow this one with Spot Channels, and the Channel Mixer.
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Running Time: 10 minutes
This Adobe Photoshop tutorial video will introduce Color Channels, and the Channel Palette, We will explain what channels are, the different options available in the palette, and we will touch upon how to use them. After you watch this video, follow the links for more information about Alpha Channels, Spot Channels, and the Channel Mixer.
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Running Time: 11 minutes
This Photoshop tutorial video is going to cover the Refine Edge Tool. We are going to combine two completely different images into a single photograph. The goal of this video to take you out of your comfort zone, and show you a new way to work.
I have quickly become a huge fan of the Photoshop Refine Edge tool. It's easy to use, nice results, and better than anything else out there for fine masking hair against busy backgrounds. In this example, I use the Refine Edge to extract the hair from a colorful flow background, and place the image onto a blue gradient with near seemless results.
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Running Time: 10 minutes
This Photoshop Tutorial video on how to fill shine on a portrait. While a majority of tutorials available are done by beauty professionals who blow out white and remove complexion, our studio takes a different approach. We like to see the skin texture, and a well balanced image, with a full tonal range. This Tutorial on Filling Shine on Portraits will show you how to fill in highlights, as well as sharp bright whites.
