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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Portrait Retouching Training

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This Photoshop CS4 Portrait Retouching training DVD is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

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Welcome

Introduction Demo
Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

2. Basic Color Correction

White balancing in Adobe Camera Raw Demo
White balancing with curves Demo
Fine-tuning color with curves Demo
Color-correcting white and black points in a photo Demo
Color-correcting with a color card Demo
Applying curves adjustments to another image Demo

3. Color-Correcting Skin Tones

4. Reducing Blemishes and Cleaning Up in Camera Raw

Using the Spot Removal tool Demo
Deconstructing Clone and Heal spot removal
Cleaning up small skin variations
Reducing blemishes and skin shine
Cleaning up a portrait backdrop
Cleaning up a backdrop
Reducing wrinkles and Camera Raw workflow
Removing lens dust from images

5. Reducing Blemishes and Cleaning Up in Photoshop

Creative tip: Leaving crumbs
Removing background distractions
Removing elements with the Patch tool
Removing T-shirt graphics
Removing distractions near subjects
Simplifying a background
Cleaning up small facial details
Simple skin retouching project
Reducing hot spots
Cleaning up small hair details

6. Cleanup Project 1: Beauty

Taking notes on an image
Cleaning up small details
Improving an eyebrow
Working on shadows

7. Cleanup Project 2: Fashion

Creative tip: Letting go of perfection
Cleaning up the background
Improving the face
Cleaning up the details

8. Cleanup Project 3: Fashion

Cleaning up the background
Improving background tone and texture
Fixing details and wrinkles
Final detail corrections
Bonus color enhancements

9. Correcting Tone

Creative tip: Movie critic
Correcting tone with the Adjustment brush: Male
Correcting tone with the Adjustment brush: Female
Brightening with the Dodge tool
Correcting tone with curves
Enhancing with curves and the Burn tool
Quickly correcting tone with curves
Brightening with soft light blending
Darkening corners with soft light blending
Enhancing tone with shadows and highlights

10. Reducing and Removing Wrinkles

Reducing shallow wrinkles with the Healing brush
Reducing wrinkles with Clone Stamp blending
Reducing deeper wrinkles with the Healing brush
Organizing layers and masking
Using the Dodge tool and blending modes on wrinkles
Using cloning, healing, and curves on wrinkles
Removing face and garment wrinkles for a magazine cover

11. Enhancing Eyes

Creative tip: Art and craft
Adding sparkle to the eyes
Enhancing eye details
Brightening eyes
Improving eyes and darkening edges
Improving eyes with curves and color
Enhancing eyes with curves
Changing eye color
Adding a catch light
Sharpening eyes behind glasses
Whitening eyes
Whitening eyes in detail
Creating "Hollywood eyes"
Modifying pupils and eye edges

12. Enhancing Eyelashes and Eyebrows

Reshaping an eyebrow
Improving texture around an eyebrow
Darkening an eyebrow
Adding mascara to increase eyelash density
Adding eyelashes

13. Improving Lips

Enhancing lip color and tone
Using curves and Hue/Saturation to improve lips
Adding dimension, shine, tone, and color
Improving shape and tone

14. Enhancing Teeth

Creative tip: Ansel Adams
Whitening teeth with the Dodge tool
Whitening teeth with Hue/Saturation
Removing a gap between teeth

15. Improving Hair

Patching a gap in hair
Covering hair discoloration
Brightening hair for emphasis
Brightening dark roots
Adding hair
Fixing roots and hair color
Removing flyaway hairs

16. Improving Makeup

Additional makeup resources
Brightening shadowed areas on the face
Adding color to the cheeks
Improving the lips
Modifying lip color
Adding makeup
Modifying eye makeup color
Increasing color saturation and variety
Changing eye makeup color
Creating dimensions with contours

17. Enhancing Skin

Creative tip: Know when to hold 'em
Reducing skin highlights
Cleaning up small skin blemishes
Healing small skin blemishes
Minimizing color variance
Reducing small details
Advanced skin enhancement
Beauty skin workflow
Fashion project pt. 1: Background cleanup
Fashion project pt. 2: Skin cleanup

18. Skin-Softening Projects

Basic skin cleanup
Advanced blemish removal
Skin softening
Basic skin cleanup
Enhancing texture and tone
Basic retouching final steps
Final skin softening
High-Pass skin softening
Creating a skin-softening action
Speeding up skin softening with masking
Skin cleanup and softening with Camera Raw

19. Body Improvements

Creative tip: The ethics of retouching
Yoga project
Fashion project pt. 1: Improving the facial expression
Fashion project pt. 2: Changing the arms
Fashion project pt. 3: Modifying the legs
Fashion project pt. 4: Increasing the height
Fashion project pt. 5: Working with light
Flamenco project pt. 1: Modifying the waist
Flamenco project pt. 2: Improving the waist
Flamenco project pt. 3: Adding height
Flamenco project pt. 4: Color and tone
Muscles project pt. 1: Introducing the Liquefy filter
Muscles project pt. 2: Using the Liquefy filter
Muscles project pt. 3: Burning and dodging
Muscles project pt. 4: Using curves

20. Structural Image Enhancements

Improving the jaw line with Forward Warp Liquefy
Improving the jaw line with Push Left Liquefy
Improving the jaw line with the Free Transform tool
Creating simple symmetry in the face
Improving the Shape of Eyes, Ears, Nose and Face
Tailor fitting a wedding dress
Improving the face
Reducing the stomach size
Correcting distortion
Combining multiple exposures

21. Retouching Workflow

Creative tip: Seal on photography
Color-correcting skin tones
Reducing blemishes
Enhancing tone
Adding makeup
Creating dimension with contours
Sharpening eyes
Improving eyes
Lightening dark roots
Smoothing skin
Enhancing color
Modifying the background

Conclusion

Goodbye

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Portrait Retouching Info

Title Information.

A portrait can be a cherished possession for a lifetime, and now making perfect portraits is just one Photoshop course away. Professional photographer and instructor Chris Orwig uses his vast knowledge of Photoshop to focus on the specific tools every photographer needs to adjust images and keep them looking genuine. Photoshop CS4 Portrait Retouching Essential Training explores this program's deep resources and inspires photographers to do their creative best with everything from blemishes to backdrops. Exercise files accompany the course. . Close »

Instructor : Chris Orwig

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Duration:

12.5 hours - 175 lessons

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PC or Mac

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